[CWGUY]

Originally Posted by Astron

I looked up the “sanitation worker” job listing for Jacobs. They offer $20,000 to $32,000 for the job. Try raising a family on that this day and age. I plan to try to catch them and give them $20 apiece. Same for the lawn crew.

Why would you tip your lawn guy...... we just had a poster tell us they make $257.00 an hour. Now X 8 hours a day, X 5 days a week, X 50 weeks a year = over $500,000 Oh wait! Most work 52 weeks a year, 7 days a week, and a lot more than 8 hours a day...... I'm thinking we have a lot of Millionaire Lawn Guys driving around the Villages.

Poster also doesn't know the people at postal stations are private contract workers with low pay (have to bid) , no benefits, and no pensions. Every year I say it so here goes..... some people don't want to tip so they will try to justify that...... people that want to tip just do it.

[RMarkland]

I did a search of WasteManagement in Wildwood. Residential Driver
About
$63K - $68K/yr
Avg. Total Pay
About
$63K - $68K/yr
Base Pay
Based on 1 Salaries
Full Pay Details

Definitely not a minimum wage job.

[linfrasco]

Originally Posted by berbet

How much do you tip at Christmas for services such as lawn mowing, yard maintenance, housekeeping, paper delivery?

With regard to tipping, the highest tip I give is for our Daily Sun delivery driver. Why? She delivers the paper every day, in all kinds of weather and temperatures. She has to get up so early every day to complete her deliveries.

[PugMom]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Would be nice to know what others think is reasonable. Never met the paper delivery guy but he does get the job done.

No idea how many mailman service our boxes. He does manage to cram some rather larger and heavy boxes into the side panel so he doesn t have to deliver to our house.

i do a card with $20 per person

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by linfrasco

With regard to tipping, the highest tip I give is for our Daily Sun delivery driver. Why? She delivers the paper every day, in all kinds of weather and temperatures. She has to get up so early every day to complete her deliveries.

Assuming he or she gives us a card with address will send a tip. Whoever it is, is very reliable in delivering the paper.

[Jerry Moran]

Many of the people doing my work are not the same person every time and rotate between people...so who should get the tip?

[photo1902]

Originally Posted by RMarkland

I did a search of WasteManagement in Wildwood. Residential Driver
About
$63K - $68K/yr
Avg. Total Pay
About
$63K - $68K/yr
Base Pay
Based on 1 Salaries
Full Pay Details

Definitely not a minimum wage job.

I’m calling BS. Where did you find that info for WM Wildwood Florida jobs?

[flflowers]

I make homemade peanut clusters and give each a treat bag of them....where I moved from, they always looked forward to getting it

[Joe V.]

Originally Posted by photo1902

I’m calling BS. Where did you find that info for WM Wildwood Florida jobs?

I found it on Glassdoor. Whether it is true or not it is there.

[newgirl]

Please top your local store delivery people! They depend on tips for their income. I keep hearing stories about these guys delivering 27 turkeys plus another 180 items( over 300 pounds) carried door to door and was left with a 7 dollar tip, another girl carried a Bowflex and got a 2 dollar tip...if you tip wait staff 20 percent to have the bring you a plate of food then please tip the person that goes into the store to fill your requests, and hand delivers your order to your home in their own auto. These drivers work hard .

[newgirl]

Please tip your local store delivery people! They depend on tips for their income. I keep hearing stories about these guys delivering 27 turkeys plus another 180 items( over 300 pounds) carried door to door and was left with a 7 dollar tip, another girl carried a Bowflex and got a 2 dollar tip...if you tip wait staff 20 percent to have the bring you a plate of food then please tip the person that goes into the store to fill your requests, and hand delivers your order to your home in their own auto. These drivers work hard .

[jbrown132]

Originally Posted by CWGUY

Why would you tip your lawn guy...... we just had a poster tell us they make $257.00 an hour. Now X 8 hours a day, X 5 days a week, X 50 weeks a year = over $500,000 Oh wait! Most work 52 weeks a year, 7 days a week, and a lot more than 8 hours a day...... I'm thinking we have a lot of Millionaire Lawn Guys driving around the Villages.

Poster also doesn't know the people at postal stations are private contract workers with low pay (have to bid) , no benefits, and no pensions. Every year I say it so here goes..... some people don't want to tip so they will try to justify that...... people that want to tip just do it.

You certainly took my post out of context. I said based on 44 visits to my home a year at 5 minutes a visit equals 220 minutes or 3.6 hours a year. I pay him $900 a year for that 3.6 hours or or about $250 hour. I don’t know how many other lawns he does or how many days a week he works. I’m sure he works hard but in my case I believe he is more than well compensated and that’s why I do not tip him.

[Huskies]

I give cleaning lady $100.00 and newspaper person $35.00

[peggyb]

My mail carrier and my newspaper delivery person leave a greeting card to me with their home address. I send them at least 25 each, sometimes more, and I also call the paper periodically during the year and drop a tip on my account for her. She does many stops and starts for me and my paper is there like clockwork. I really appreciate the service!

[MrLonzo]

I did many of these jobs, as a teen, part-time, summer jobs, etc. Shoveling snow, painting houses, washing cars, cutting grass, cleaning windows, raking leaves, walking dogs, etc. etc. The minimum wage was $1.25/hour. I never received any tips. My, have times changed!