The minimum wage is the entry-level hourly wage paid to employees by their employer.
Tipped Minimum Wage
$9.45
/ hour
The tipped wage is the base wage for employees who earn tips (such as servers and bartenders). Tipped employees are guaranteed to earn the minimum wage when tips are included.
In recent years, New York’s decision to slash its tip credit and increase its tipped minimum wage requirement has wreaked havoc on the restaurant industry. Data already shows that even…
As New York has diminished its tip credit and raised regular and tipped minimum wages over the last several years, the state’s full-service restaurant industry, which employs the majority of…
Economists agree that major minimum wage hikes cost employees their jobs – especially for teens. The most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows this happening in real time:…
Recent proposals to raise the minimum wage in New York state and the Big Apple have threatened to eliminate the tip credit, which mostly affects tipped restaurant employees’ ability to…
