Many restaurant servers currently make minimum wage. Photo by Claudia Escobar.

San Francisco surpassed Santa Fe today with the highest minimum wage in the country, up from $10.24 to $10.55 per hour.

Although Santa Fe’s minimum wage, currently $10.29 per hour, is expected to increase in March, it is not expected to exceed San Francisco’s record-breaking hike.

According to the San Francisco Examiner, a local ordinance, passed in 2003, that tied the minimum wage to the inflation rate ushered in a rise in the minimum wage every year since its inception, except for 2004.

The federally mandated minimum wage, which last saw an increase in July 2009, is set at $7.25 an hour.

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A Modesto, CA native, Carly has been working in the news industry for the past five years. She has worked with The Portland Mercury as an Arts Intern, The San Francisco Bay Guardian as a News Intern, The Lewis County Chronicle in Centralia, WA as a beat reporter, and was the student opinion editor for her undergraduate newspaper, The Daily Vanguard, for Portland State University, in Portland, Ore. She currently lives in San Francisco, CA.

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