The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has voted to increase the county’s living wage for the first time since 2015, raising it 11.6 percent from $15 to $16.75 an hour.

Effective Jan. 1, the increase applies for all county government employees and those in private companies and nonprofits that are contracted for the county.

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