The minimum wage is the entry-level hourly wage paid to employees by their employer.
Tipped Minimum Wage
$3.89
/ 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.
This Thursday, a coalition of labor organizations and Rhode Island politicians will hold a press conference promoting an initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage for tipped employees by at…