Los Angeles lawmakers have voted to approve a proposal that would make the city home to the highest minimum wage in the U.S. The Los Angeles City Council voted 12-3 to clear the plan to raise tourism workers' minimum pay to $30 per hour by 2028,

Los Angeles lawmakers have advanced a measure that would make the city home to the nation's highest minimum wage, approving a plan to raise hourly pay to $30 for tens of thousands of tourism workers by 2028,

The proposal, billed as the highest minimum wage in the U.S., would take the minimum wage for hotels and LAX workers to $30 by 2028.