Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) – The Albuquerque City Council passed Monday night a slightly different version of an ordinance that will raise the city’s minimum wage from $12 to $15 an hour. The increase will take effect over three years and with future annual adjustments after that to be tied to inflation. The first increase will take place on January 1st and will raise the minimum from $12 to $13 per hour.
The amended bill also cuts tipped workers’ percentage of the minimum from 60% to 50% and gives city workers, making less than $80,000 a year, the same percentage wage increase as the minimum in annual adjustments.
Councilors voted 5-4 on the ordinance, which will allow for the gradual increase of $1 every year until 2029, when the minimum wage will be $15 per hour. Annual adjustments tied to inflation would begin in 2030.
Councilors Dan Champine, Brook Bassan, Dan Lewis and Renée Grout voted against the measure.
