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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
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.
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If they are working a low end job, it should be a filler for spending in high school. Anyone working in the range above a fast food level, should be doing quite well for themselves for a part time job if they are any kind of server at all. Some make $700. in tips working Mother's Day brunch. This would be top-notch servers who celebrate Mother's Day for themselves one day early or one day later. Why not for that type of reward? The Villages may be a different animal but along with the cheap tippers there are those who are very generous when tipping. I'd like the whole thing wrapped up in the price and firm. Servers are no different than nurses, Drs., customer service at your local store who are paid an appropriate wage. We don't worry about the level of service from them, why should food servers be any different?