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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.
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.
Louisiana: None. There is no official state minimum wage in Louisiana, so the federal minimum wage of $7.25 is the default standard. Tipped workers make the federal tipped minimum wage, $2.13.
The amount tipped workers make varies by state. Fourteen states pay the federal minimum, or just above $2 an hour for tipped workers and $7 an hour for non-tipped workers. Arizona employers can pay their tipped workers $3 less hourly than other workers. Under current rates, that means tipped workers' base pay is $11.35 an hour.
The federal minimum wage was introduced in 1938 at the rate of 25¢ per hour (equivalent to $5.19 in 2022). [77] [7] By 1950 the minimum wage had risen to 75¢ per hour. [81] [7] The purchasing power of the federal minimum wage has fluctuated; it was highest in February 1968, when it was $1.60 per hour.
The federal minimum wage has remained unchanged since 2009. Most states have laws that allow tipped employees to be paid at rates below minimum wage by their employer as long as the worker makes ...
“(Waitstaff) wages haven’t. $2.13 has been the sub-minimum wage since 1991. That tip amount has to increase to offset everything else going on in today’s economy.”
The court ordered the state treasurer to finalize a minimum wage in Michigan for 2025 by Nov. 1. ... lawmakers to address the pending changes to the state’s minimum wage laws. The tipped minimum ...