The LA tourism board said businesses could lose $2.3 billion once the minimum wage for airport and hotel workers rises to $30 an hour.

Hotel and airport employees will receive $22.50 an hour starting in July under the amendments, followed by an annual $2.50 increase over three years.

A CUF analysis of state data found the city lost 11,000 hotel jobs in 2024 as a result, and warned in a full-page advertisement on Thursday, the day before an anticipated final vote approving the new wage and benefit ordinance, that “this new proposal will kill more jobs and raise costs for visitors.”