Fast-food giant McDonald's announced Wednesday that it would increase the wages of 90,000 employees in company-owned restaurants in the United States and offer them paid time-off. The pay rise, however, will not apply to workers in McDonald's restaurants owned by franchisees, which comprise some 90 percent of the 14,000 McDonald's outlets across the country. McDonald's USA said that from July 1, the starting wages for full and part-time workers in its own restaurants will be $1 above the local official minimum wage. The company gave no average for that, but based on current state standards, the new pay scale could range from $6.15 an hour in Georgia and Wyoming to $11.50 an hour in Washington, D.C. Some cities have even higher local standards so that a worker at a McDonald's-owned restaurant in Seattle could earn $16 an hour. Workers' groups quickly assailed McDonald's announcement as too limited and far below the target of a national campaign to get $15 an hour for fast-food workers.