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SACRAMENTO —

If you don’t make minimum wage, chances are you know someone who does make $9 an hour–and if they do, chances are they wish they made more.

Vice mayor Jay Schneider hopes to grant that wish in 2015.

“If you work at minimum wage, you are making about 23% under the poverty level. So we are actually asking people to work 40 hours a week and be in poverty. I just don’t think that’s right,” Schneider said.

Schneider, along with Mayor Kevin Johnson and Councilmember Allen Warren, has announced plans to explore raising the minimum wage in Sacramento next year.

By just how much? That hasn’t been discussed, yet.

“For me, it’s not saying we need the dame minimum wage as San Francisco. We need something again for people to provide for their families,” said Schneider.

Voters in San Francisco overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure this past election that will gradually

Increase minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour by 2018.

“There’s a lot of data that shows that the impact will fall on small businesses,” said Kevin Greene, Director, Government Affairs, Sacramento Metro Chamber.

Greene wasn’t ready to announce the Chamber’s stance on the issue, but told FOX40 the Chamber is conducting its own studies and plans to take them to the City Council once a task force convenes next month.

“We are very much engaged and look forward to being engaged when the Mayor puts his task force together,” Greene said.