Comment on Tipping culture npcs
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 7 months agoImagine in 1979 that 30% of the cost of a meal went to server salaries. Imagine that now it is 15%. Either the server takes a 15% pay cut or that money gets paid directly by the customer as extra tip.
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Honest question, are servers paid a fixed amount of the cost of a meal by their employer, or you are just implying that their fixed amount went down adjusted to inflation like it happened to all other industries?
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Most people who get a tip are paid by the hour by their employers in the US (and everywhere else that I know). Tips are a portion of the cost of the meal, usually.
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So where your saying, in your previous comment that the hour pay hasn’t gone up at all, or it has gone up bit not at the same rate as inflation? That sucks (but then again all workers seem to be impacted by that problem lately, agree that servers might be more impacted due to low wages)
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
The federal wage for tipped workers in the USA has not changed since 1991. It remains at $2.13 per hour.
Most states have a higher minimum, but 15 states use the federal value:
www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/…/tipped
The population of those states is about 107 million people, so this is for about a third of the overall US population.