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L.A. council backs $30 minimum wage for hotels, despite warnings from tourism industry
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That works out to an annual salary of about $62,500 for a full-time employee and my intuition is that the marginal value of the lowest-paid hotel employees to their employers is a lot less than that, but the nice thing about this being a local law is that LA can experiment on itself and the rest of the country can watch and learn. If this works well, other cities can do the same thing and if this doesn't then the harm is relatively limited.
(I noticed that the law only applies to hotels with over sixty rooms. I already stay exclusively in Airbnbs when I travel because that's cheaper. Is LA also one of those cities making it difficult to run an Airbnb or is this going to make large hotels even less competitive in that regard?)
I would HOPE they're making it difficult to run an AirBNB, fucking plague on the housing market, and they support their Nazi best friend Musk
AirBnB and such is raising the price of housing.
It makes sense to increase taxes or something if a city has more tourism than is desired and wants to reduce it
some cities in Europe have imposed various forms of taxes on tourists recently, when they've had more tourism than the locals are willing to put up with. Makes sense then, since it's a finite resource being consumed.
I kind of doubt that Los Angeles is in that position, but I dunno what the politics are behind that, and I guess it could be the case.
In Europe's case, my guess is that one could restructure the cities for more tourism throughout
Orlando, Florida, does more people a year than even the much-more-populous Paris, which is the top destination in Europe.
https://www.visitorlando.org/media/press-releases/post/orlando-welcomed-753-million-visitors-in-2024/
https://roadgenius.com/statistics/tourism/france/paris/
But Orlando was also designed around being a tourist destination, and a lot of the cities in Europe upset about tourism load weren't and I'd guess don't want to redesign around it.
EDIT: I'd also add that Los Angeles County has been shrinking in population for a while, so I'd be hesitant to impose more costs in their specific case. Let me go find a graph.
kagis
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescountycalifornia/PST120224#PST120224
Yeah, lower than it was in 2010, even.