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Doctor Foxx posted...

wolfy42 posted...

Too much.

I still tip around 20% but all positions in WA get paid min wage ($12 an hour) base.

So servers here make more then probably 80% of the people tipping them, and just as much without tips as about 40%.

That sounds true but it's not exactly like that. Most servers work split or half shifts, which still takes up a whole day in terms of availability, but now you're paid for only part of it.

Shifts get cut all the time, last minute. You could have been doing something else (or probably picked up a shift elsewhere)

You can't rely on any stable hourly so tips need to make up the difference. For some it works out well. For others it's really not much above minimum wage in the end.

And all those folks working places where tipped positions can be paid below normal minimum, yeah, they need it more

It may be different where you are, but here, the friends I have that have tipping jobs (waiters and bartenders) make FAR more then any of the rest. One past roomate would come home RAVING mad because customers did not tip much that day. He considered the 12$ an hour as nothing. Meanwhile I had 4 other roomates who made around that as their total wages (If he made less then $200 any day he worked (in addition to his base pay) in tips, he was super mad. He also didn't work full time, or usually for full 8 hour shifts.

And he didn't work at an up scale place just McMennis in downtown olympia. Bartenders tend to make even more, and there was a GF of one of my roomates that worked at Bud Bay Cafe (upscale with min orders over $20 each), who made serious bank.

So yeah, it depends on where you live, but in some places servers or people with positions that include tips are making bank. More then Attorneys for sure (in their first 5-10 years at least), and many other jobs, without needing any degrees etc.

The worst part of the job around here is the extreme competition to get one of them, even serving pizzas at places (that have tip jars) tend to be in high demand because even at $1 per customer on average, you still get at least $10 extra in tips an hour, which is $22 total (and I highly doubt they claim the tips in the taxes since they are in cash).

Since Min wage jumped 3$ an hour in the past few years here, most of the low end jobs (about 40% of em) all pay right around $12 now......which makes jobs that tip, by FAR the easiest way to make more money.
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