Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that increases the minimum hourly wage, effective January 1, 2013.

Highlights:

• Increases the minimum hourly wage as follows (Sec. 1):
• From $8.25 to $8.50 per hour, beginning January 1, 2013; and
• From $8.50 to $8.75 per hour, beginning January 1, 2014.

• Increases gratuities for individuals in the hotel and restaurant industry, other than bartenders, from 31 percent of the minimum hourly wage to the following (Sec. 2):
• 31.76 percent, beginning January 1, 2013;
• 33.71 percent, beginning January 1, 2014; and
• 31 percent, beginning January 1, 2015.

• Increases gratuities for individuals that are bartenders from 11 percent of the minimum hourly wage to the following (Sec. 2):
• 13.65 percent, beginning January 1, 2013;
• 16.11 percent, beginning January 1, 2014; and
• 11 percent, beginning January 1, 2015.

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