Issue Position: A Local Living Wage

Issue Position

We need to raise wages in Hawaiʻi so that local families, sometimes working multiple jobs, are not pushed into homelessness or to the mainland. People should earn a living wage that allows them a decent quality of life.

Rather than the State setting the minimum wage for everyone, counties should have the authority to set minimum wages for their respective communities--whether that's $17.21 in Honolulu County or $13.75 in Hawaiʻi County[1]. Hawaii's minimum wage standards should reflect the basic principle that full time work can provide a minimally decent quality of life and economic self-sufficiency for hard working people.

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