Please take this opportunity to share your perspective about upcoming minimum wage legislation. Nonprofit Montgomery is sharing this survey that is being administered by PFM, a local government consulting and financial advisory firm. Please read this information below:

In January 2017, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett vetoed legislation which would increase the minimum wage to $15/hour by 2020, and requested a study prior to further action on the legislation. Montgomery County has retained PFM, a local government consulting and financial advisory firm, to conduct a study on the potential impact of increasing the minimum wage. As part of that study, PFM is administering an anonymous survey to obtain nonprofit leaders’ opinion on the current legislation, anticipated reaction to the legislation, and basic organizational staff demographics. If you are based in Montgomery County, or provide the majority of your services in Montgomery County, we invite you to complete the survey below.

PFM respects the privacy of participants, and will not be able to link responses to any individual nonprofit or the nonprofit’s staff. Additionally, individual responses will not be shared with Montgomery County, and information collected will only be used to inform our economic and financial impact analysis. The survey will be open until the close of business on Friday, June 2. If you have any questions about the study or use of the data, contact Jay Fullenwider.

Again, this is an opportunity for nonprofits to share their perspective on this legislation. The University of Washington has recently issued a study about the impact of Seattle’s minimum wage hike that highlights some of the concerns nonprofit leaders in that city have considered. This may help you consider potential issues like wage compression, competition for entry-level jobs, and teen employment as you respond to the survey.