Via D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.

The vast majority of fast food cooks in the city will benefit from the upcoming minimum wage hike, according to an analysis by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.

The law that will raise D.C.’s minimum wage to $11.50 an hour by 2016 will affect 90 percent of fast food cooks, or over 1,500 people. That’s out of the over 64,000 people who make less than $11.50 (in 2016 dollars). As the DCFPI analysis shows, workers in the food industry stand to benefit the most, while 74 percent of home health aides and 72 percent of parking lot attendants will also be affected.

The minimum wage will rise to $9.50 this summer and $10.50 by 2015, which means the $11.50 an hour payday is still two years away. “You can’t fix it overnight,” DCFPI’s executive director Ed Lazere said of the low minimum wage, adding that economists agree that it must be raised slowly.