Santa Barbara for a Living Wage is a Coalition of labor, faith and community based organizations that is proposing a living wage ordinance for the City of Santa Barbara. The Living Wage ensures that anyone doing work for the city will be paid a living wage of $13.40 an hour. The living wage numbers come from the Annual Median Income developed by Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In California, a worker earning the Minimum Wage ($6.75 per hour) must work 126 hours per week in order to afford a two-bedroom unit at the area’s Fair Market rent. The proposed living wage is what it would take for a single person to rent a studio apartment in Santa Barbara County, paying 30% of their salary in rent.