How can cities successfully enforce a higher minimum wage?

[SheilaT]

1. It's not always easy

but workers have to be willing to report employers who don't pay them the minimum.

I live in Santa Fe, which has a $10.84 minimum wage, and it's tied to the CPI, so it goes up most years. When people report they aren't being paid the minimum, and if that claim is found to be true, the businesses are fined triple of what they should have paid in the first place. Typically once or twice a year I read in the local about some business being caught at underpaying employees.

That's how you enforce the higher minimum wage.

People commute here from Albuquerque because the pay is enough better here.