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![May Day Rally Held in Los Angeles](https://img.money.com/2015/05/471873890.jpg)
*Protesters chant during a May Day rally in downtown Los Angeles, California.*

The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ramp up the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour from $9 over the next five years.

The urban center is the largest among several cities—including Seattle, San Francisco, and Oakland, California—that have moved to increase pay for their lowest-earning workers. Once signed by the mayor, the L.A. law could affect as many as 800,000 workers, reports the [*Los Angeles Times*](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-minimum-wage-hike-20150518-story.html).

Other cities, including New York and Washington, D.C., are still considering laws that would also set the local minimum wage at $15. (See this [map](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/us/los-angeles-expected-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-15-an-hour.html?_r=0) of places where local minimum wage increases have been enacted or proposed.)

The first pay bump would occur in July 2016, increasing wages in Los Angeles to $10.50 per hour.

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