SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Voters in San Francisco and Oakland have approved minimum wage increases.
San Francisco bumped its minimum wage on Tuesday to $15 an hour over the next several years. Neighboring Oakland overwhelmingly approved an increase to $12.25 an hour.
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Further north in Eureka, voters rejected a $12-an-hour minimum wage.
With all precincts reporting on Wednesday, San Francisco's ballot measure had support from roughly three-quarters of voters. It needed a simple majority to win.
The San Francisco measure - similar to one in Seattle - would raise the minimum wage gradually to $12.25 in 2015, $13 the next year, $14 the year after that and then $15 in 2018.
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The minimum wage is currently $10.74 an hour in San Francisco.
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