Tipped workers used to be paid 66.67% of the minimum wage. So, as the minimum wage went up the tipped wage did too. But in 1989, our General Assembly changed the tipped wage to a flat $2.23/hour. It hasn't gone up since.
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In Delaware, the minimum wage for tipped workers has not gone up for more than 30 years.
It was $2.23/hr then and it's $2.23/hr now.
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In 2009, of states that had a tipped wage higher than the federal minimum, Delaware's tipped workers got the lowest share of state minimum wage—31%. Now that minimum wage has increased to $9.25/hr, tipped workers are doing even worse. They're making only 24% of the minimum wage.pic.twitter.com/SHJKlPfqBe
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In 30 years tipped workers have lost ground. They used to be paid 66.67% of the minimum wage. Now they're only paid 24%. But tipped workers are still required to make minimum wage when their hourly wage and hourly tips are combined.
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Because the state allowed the gap between the tipped wage and the minimum wage to grow, employers get away with contributing just 24% of a tipped workers minimum wage. Now worker's tips have to cover 76% of their minimum wage. In 1989, tips only covered 33%.
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This is how policy decisions help bosses at the expense of workers. Raise the minimum wage to $15 and end the tipped wage.
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Joes state !
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It's been $2.13/hr in Tennessee for the longest time. To make matters worse, Wage Theft is very rarely punished here. Often, employers will require Servers to do side work off the clock if they are approaching the 40-hr/week threshold.
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I would like to mention my former employer always paid myself and co-workers what we were owed. This is only one of the reasons I was faithfully employed there for 15 years.
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When TV is waxing nostalgic about The waitress by day student by night, work ethic of the 60’s and 70’s ...While college tuition and everything except pay has risen by % in the hundreds. This is the kind of Info people need!
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Well back in his dad a 10 dollar tip basically was the down payment of a mercedes
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