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In the state of California, tips are a gratuity paid on top of minimum wage. This is also how it works in many other states, in Canada, and in many countries ar

In the state of California, tips are a gratuity paid on top of minimum wage. This is also how it works in many other states, in Canada, and in many countries around the world. So you earn $16/hr for all time you’re at work, plus tips. Which is how it should be. You’re being employed. Those tips are for the employee, not a gratuity for the owner to offset their costs. “Tipped wages” are just another form of theft, bought by the restaurant lobby.

RHSeeger 3y ago
> In the state of California, tips are a gratuity paid on top of minimum wage. This is also how it works in many other states, in Canada, and in many countries around the world. > So you earn $16/hr for all time you’re at work, plus tips. This is not true. According to California Waitress & Bartender Minimum Wage Laws California Tipped Minimum Wage Laws for 2023, 2024 [1], > California labor law allows tipped employees to be paid a lower cash wage than the standard California minimum wage by their employers, with different allowed tip credits applying to different classes of employer. That lower amount is $11 or $12 per hour, depending on the size of the company (vs the normal $16/hour rate for non-tipped employees). The numbers are lower for most (all?) of the rest of the country. [1] https://www.minimum-wage.org/california/tipped-employee-minimum-wage https://www.minimum-wage.org/california/tipped-employee-mini...