Zombies don’t expect tips, they just want your bbbrrrrrraaaaaiiiiiinnnnnsssss!!!
Tips don’t count as part of their wages. At least not as part of their minimum wage calculations.
I mean, I assume they don’t, I’ve never worked in a restaurant so I don’t know how their paychecks look. Are the hourly wages and tips together on one line or are they on two separate lines so you can see what you made per hour and see what you made in tips?
That is, if I made $25 in tips this week and $45 in tips last week, my hourly wage should still be displayed on the check as $3.00 X 40 hours, right? They’re not going to put it all together and average the tips into my wage to make my hourly rate higher. That’s the only way I can see making what you’re saying work.
Can we have one thread where someone doesn’t do that. It’s an old thread, get over it.
You assume incorrectly. The details vary between states, but as a general rule, some tip income counts toward a mandatory minimum wage. If the employee ends up with less than that in total tips for any reason, the employer has to make up the difference.
The tips don’t necessarily show up on the statement- but way back when I was in high school and college , I had one job where we allegedly received tips and another job processing deposited checks. It was very common for paychecks to have a statement on back saying something to the effect of " By signing below, I certify that I received sufficent tips to bring my pay above minimum wage for this pay period". Becasue even 30 years ago , employers were only permitted to pay the lower wage if the tips brought the pay above the minimum wage.
I didn’t know that. So you’re saying a restaurant can pay it’s workers less than $2.13 per hour (or whatever minimum wage for tipped employees is in their state) as long as the difference is made up in tips?
It seems most waitstaff should be able to pull in a little over $80 per week ($17 per night), that means the restaurant, technically, doesn’t have to pay them at all, right?
I’ve never heard that, been then all my payroll knowledge is based in the non-tipped/non-opportunity world.
I know this is a zombie thread, but that was explained in the very first response on the first page.
Where’s your sense of humor? It actually works as a good marker so people know it’s “one of those threads”.
Nope, it’s technically the same minimum wage for everyone. The feds and some states allow a “tip credit” so that the employer can pay a lower rate in direct wages as long as the tips bring the wages up to minimum wage. For example, minimum wage in NY is $8.75/hr. Employers must pay food service workers a direct wage of $5/hr and can take a tip credit of $3.75/hr.- but only if the employee actually receives at least $3.75/hr in tips for that pay period.
Which is why those checks had that statement on the back - most people aren’t going to fiel a complaint with the Dept of Labor after signing that statement.
It’s one of those ‘that was funny the first hundred times’ things.
I really didn’t know that. I do payroll for my store, but, like I said, my store doesn’t have tipped employees so I don’t read up on that side of things much. I’ll take everyone’s word for it though, I don’t really feel like slogging through the IRS website.