On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 to raise of the city’s minimum wage, which will increase from $9 an hour to $15 an hour by 2020, The Washington Post reports. Similar legislation has recently passed in places like Seattle and San Francisco, but Los Angeles will be the largest city by far to adopt the $15 per hour base wage.

“Without a doubt, it was a very big victory,” labor leader Maria Elena Durazo told The L.A. Times.

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti—who is expected to soon sign the increase into law—also applauded the council’s vote. From The New York Times:

“We’re leading the country; we’re not going to wait for Washington to lift Americans out of poverty,” Mr. Garcetti said in an interview. “We have too many adults struggling to be living off a poverty wage. This will re-establish some of the equilibrium we’ve had in the past.”

If signed into law, the first phase of the Los Angeles plan would begin in July of next year, when minimum wage would increase to $10.50 an hour.

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