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The $15 Floor Hits Hotels at $2.8B. Here's Which Properties Don't Survive the Math.

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Mar 7

The $15 Floor Hits Hotels at $2.8B. Here's Which Properties Don't Survive the Math.

A federal minimum wage hike to $15 sounds like a round number until you decompose it by segment, state, and margin structure. For select-service owners in low-wage states, the real number is a 200-400 basis point EBITDA compression... and some of those properties are already operating at the edge.

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Jordan Chen 3 min read · Mar 7