CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) – Linn County supervisors have voted to raise the county’s minimum wage a dollar on Jan. 1 the next three years, taking the wage to $10.25 an hour in 2019.  The board voted 4-1 Monday for the measure after its third and final reading. The county’s cities will be able to opt out and keep the national rate of $7.25 an hour.

Johnson County was the first in Iowa to raise the county’s minimum wage. In September last year the county’s Board of Supervisors approved a proposal that will raise the wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017 in three increments of 95 cents.