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Originally Posted by Jjt274
$13 an hour, if the wait staff are indeed making that much, is so little. Amounts to about $25,000 a year.
When we are in the Villages, and when the service is good, we tip generously.
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It doesn't amount to about $25,000/year. Wait staff jobs are typically PART TIME JOBS, with no benefits other than discounts on their meal (or free meal allowance during work shift), and some of them allow short breaks during their shift. No life insurance, no health insurance, not even if they pay their own premiums. They get maybe $13,000/year, assuming they work an average 20 hours every week for 50 weeks out of the year. That's IF they get the state non-tipped minimum wage.
If they get the tipped minimum wage, their minimum wage is $9.98/hour. So their employer would have to pay them at least $9,980/YEAR - and as long as those servers get tips equaling more than $3.02/hour, that's all their employer has to pay them. If their tips are under $3.02/hour, then the employer has to make up the difference, up to the total of $13/hour.