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The tipped wage is base wage paid to an employee in the United States who receives a substantial portion of their compensation from tips.According to a common labor law provision referred to as a "tip credit", the employee must earn at least the state's minimum wage when tips and wages are combined or the employer is required to increase the wage to fulfill that threshold.
Maine Question 4, formally An Act to Raise the Minimum Wage, [1] is a citizen-initiated referendum question that appeared on the Maine November 8, 2016 statewide ballot. It sought to increase Maine's minimum wage from $7.50 per hour to $12 an hour by 2020, as well as increasing the minimum wage for tipped employees gradually to the same level ...
[5] Motivated by the impending ballot measure and pressure from labor unions and the restaurant industry, she proposed a compromise piece of legislation that would increase the standard minimum wage from $10.50 per hour to $15 per hour, but allow the tipped minimum wage to remain, albeit substantially increased from $2.77 per hour.
For tipped employees who earn more than $30 in tips, the tip credit is 33% of the applicable minimum wage, $2.39 per hour, and the minimum cash wage is $4.86 per hour. ©iStock.com Ohio: $10.10
Secondly, it could take the steam out of efforts in some states to gradually increase the minimum wage for tipped workers so that their base pay is in line with the minimum wage for other workers.
House Bill 1971 and Senate Bill 1213 would raise the minimum wage for tipped workers. S-1213, An Act Requiring One Fair Wage, cosponsored by Sen. Patricia Jehlen, D-Somerville , is for all workers ...
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, someone making minimum wage in Florida needs to work nearly 100 hours a week to afford rent.