BURIEN, Wash. — A battle in Burien – over minimum wage. The city just filed a lawsuit claiming that a ballot measure, approved less than three weeks ago by voters, is unconstitutional. At the start of the year, the city’s new minimum wage law kicked in at $21.16 an hour for businesses with more than 20 employees.

As of January 1, 2025, the minimum wage in Burien is $21.16 an hour for employers with more than 500 workers. For smaller companies, it is $20.16 an hour.Initiative 1 would tie Burien’s minimum wage to that of Tukwila,

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If the lead holds, Burien would match Tukwila's minimum wage, bringing it slightly higher than wage floors set in Seattle and SeaTac.

Feb. 25, 2025, the City of Burien filed a complaint in King County Superior Court seeking a declaratory judgment on Burien Initiative 24-001 (“Initiative 1”) that was approved by voters in the Feb. 11 Special Election.

"I think that people know that people need to make minimum wage and the state minimum wage isn’t enough,” one woman said.