Greensboro city workers will soon see more money in their paychecks. The City Council has adopted a plan that would eventually boost pay for full-time employees to $15-an-hour.

The Council voted 7-2 to develop a final policy that will increase the minimum wage rates to $10.00 an hour for part-time city employees and $12.00 an hour for full-time workers.

The council’s goal is to raise wages for city workers to a minimum of $15.00 an hour by the year 2020.

Greensboro employees are currently paid the state minimum wage of $7.25.

Advocates say raising pay to $15 an hour will bring wages in line with the actual cost of living.

One of the plan’s proponents was Congresswoman Alma Adams, a Democrat, who spearheaded the state’s first minimum wage increase in nine years while serving in the North Carolina General Assembly.