Dear Xpress Editor, I am writing to you about my concerns regarding the minimum wage for restaurant workers on campus at San Francisco State University. It has come to my attention that restaurant workers currently are not paid the same minimum wage and benefits campus wide. Some restaurants pay their workers $8.00 an hour with no benefits while others pay employees $10.55 an hour with benefits. If restaurants on campus filed for a license with the state of California because San Francisco State University is a state funded college then they are entitled to only pay California's current minimum wage of $8.00 per hour. Although if restaurants filed for a license with the city of San Francisco, then they must pay San Francisco's minimum wage of $10.55 per hour and provide benefits such as paid sick day allowance and health care through the city's program, Healthy San Francisco. This divide in the restaurant industry on campus at San Francisco State University is unjust and morally wrong. All restaurants on campus at SFSU should have to pay their workers San Francisco's minimum wage of $10.55 per hour and provide benefits for their workers. Living in San Francisco is very expensive and $8.00 per hour simply isn't enough money to live off of. According to livingwagecalcualtor.mit.edu, a single adult living in San Francisco County needs to be making at least $1929 per month after taxes. That is amount equivalent to a full time job paying $12.83 per hour. If a person is only making $8.00 an hour at a full time job they will only be bringing home about $1300 a month, which is not enough to live off of. This will cause them to accumulate a massive amount of debt calculating out to be about $630 per month. Housing alone in San Francisco cost on average about $1144 a month for a single adult. Therefore, if someone is making only $8.00 an hour at their job, they will have less than $200 a month for the rest of their personal costs such as food, medical cost, and transportation. Although if a person is being paid $10.55 per hour they will be bringing home about $1800 a month, a much more reasonable amount of money to live off of in San Francisco. With $1800 a month, they will only be accumulating about $130 worth