Boulder's 2017 Living Wage Ordinance requires city contractors and subcontractors performing services for the city to pay an indexed hourly rate above the Colorado minimum, adjusted annually for cost of living by Boulder Human Resources.
Boulder Revised Code Title 1 chapter 3 directs the city manager to set a living wage paid by city service contractors performing janitorial, security, landscaping, and similar work on city contracts above a dollar threshold. The wage tracks regional cost-of-living indexes and is recalculated each January. While narrower than a hotel-specific worker ordinance, it influences private wage floors when paired with Boulder's separate local minimum wage ordinance for all employers. Contracts include a posting and recordkeeping clause and authorize the city to audit payroll on demand.
Underpaid workers may file complaints with the city, triggering audit, back-wage orders, contract suspension, debarment from future Boulder bidding, and liquidated damages per affected worker.
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