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Snapchat star Cat Hendrick turns her guns on West Hollywood’s controversial minimum wage increase. Her witty investigation raises serious questions about the wisdom of West Hollywood.
CLICK HERE TO VIEWSnapchat star Cat Hendrick turns her guns on West Hollywood’s controversial minimum wage increase. Her witty investigation raises serious questions about the wisdom of West Hollywood.
Star? I’ve never heard of this woman matter fact women should stay in the kitchen this is boys town
So people have researched to be a low income, single person household in LA you need to make about $65-70K a year. Which she even mentions in the video. At $19.08 an hour, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks in a year makes just under $39K BEFORE taxes. Then just to rent is $2,000+ on the low end for an apartment. How in the world are we expecting people to live in WeHo and not make enough to live. I 100% feel for the businesses but the minimum wage has stayed stagnant for too long and now everyone is trying… Read more »
the minimum wage is not meant for everybody for all hours. and, nobody is complaining about the $ of the wage, its the ordinances other provisions. BTW, how do they live in Bev Hills at 15.50 an hour, ?
$19.08 per hour at 40 hours per week is $39,700 per year. That’s hardly an extravagant wage. If a business can’t afford to pay their workers that much, maybe they shouldn’t be in business in WeHo.
These wages are necessary because of a region wide housing shortage and resulting extremely high cost of living. They are good and should remain.
your applying the minimum wage —not enough to live— to every single job that from a high school kid to a part timer who just wants a few extra hours on a side gig… and your excluding tips for many workers, .
I’m fine with any attention drawn to our absurd minimum wage ordinance.
Since Wehoville made this news, Wehoville is brainless and bored
WehovVille is one of the only place you can find any news about West Hollywood. Of course the city council thinks it’s a blog. Not realizing the LA Times is up for sale because they can’t give it away even for a dollar covering 6 months. Social media is the news not some legacy newspapers or cable news like Fox or MSNBC which is dying fast. No one reads or follows these retro outlets except the nearly dead and politicians. Get on board with it. Great video exposed to dreadful John Erickson!
Useless just like she is
Shes very talented, and smart.
Snapchat “star” – spare me !!
There are full functioning adults using snapchat in 2023?
This was a silly little video that says nothing. That’s not journalism. It’s fluff. It makes no point, it makes no arguments, it’s short, and totally pointless.
The video says plenty! How did you miss it?
In the city law, all employees in West Hollywood also includes city municipal workers and block by block and other employees or contracted service agencies, with most of these people already salaried with benefits. Where are the tax payer dollars going if the city currently funds approximately anywhere (I’m approximating) from $30-40 million of its revenue on salaries of workers of the $80-100 million it brings in annually, which changes on residents and hotels, and visitors paying taxes. We residents are a constant reliable money source when eating or shopping in WEHO but we can’t afford it anymore! However, at… Read more »
The generous retirement pensions, that we taxpayers keep paying until the ex-City employee drops dead, are also killing the budget. When employees retire, they get close to their full salary for the rest of their life. Some of these are well over $300,000 per year, per ex employee. So the city has to rely on selling and pushing more drug and alcohol sales. The entire business model John Heilman and company came up with when the city was founded, is completely unsustainable. Think about some city employee who retired say 15 years ago, we’re paying say $300,000 in retirement benefits… Read more »
The pension issue is going to be huge in the City’s future. But the burden of West Hollywood’s pension obligation imposes a disproportionate burden on Cal-PERS, the State’s retirement system which ultimately bears the responsibility of paying these pensions. Poor cities, largely populated by people of color, don’t have the budgets for the generous salaries and numerous positions we see at WeHo City Hall; their staffs are bare bones and the salaries don’t come close to West Hollywood’s. As pension costs rise these smaller cities wind up paying a portion of WeHo’s generous benefits because we are taking up a… Read more »