According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, the “City Different” could soon have the highest minimum wage in the United States if Mayor Alan Webber gets his way. The Mayor has plans to raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour from the current $14.03 rate and eventually raise the wage as high as $29 an hour.
That would give Santa Fe the highest minimum wage of any city or state in the nation (Seattle is at $18.69). Going to $20 would also represent a 42.5% increase over the current rate.
Yes Santa Fe needs to pay its employees more and 20$ an hour is a start but not enough with the price of food or rent in Santa Fe it’s not like the city can’t afford to pay its employees more this is the only place where rent is triple the amount you make it’s either have a roof over your head and no food or money for anything else or be homeless just to have food