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Resident asks Lafayette to consider raising city minimum wage, cites state law allowing local wage floors
3168800 · April 1, 2025
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Summary
A resident representing Together Colorado urged Lafayette to raise its minimum wage above $14.81, citing local cost-of-living differences and Colorado statutes that permit local minimum-wage laws.
At the March 18 meeting, Catherine Goldberg, who identified herself with the advocacy group Together Colorado, urged the Lafayette City Council to consider increasing the city’s minimum wage in 2026.
Goldberg said Lafayette’s 2024 minimum wage was $14.81 an hour and that a regional living-wage benchmark in Boulder County—cited in her remarks and a 2024 report—implied…
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