How much servers get paid

All Sections Find a Job. Find a Job. Create Job Alerts. Hot Topics. Share this article: Twitter. Check, Please How many times have you stared at your bill at the end of a meal and wondered, "how much should I tip?

In Favor of Tips. In Favor of a Living Wage. Some American servers and bartenders, particularly those working in upscale restaurants, greatly enjoy the tip-based system because it allows them to earn hundreds of dollars in cash on busy nights. A living wage might actually force these successful servers to take a pay cut. To make matters worse, some employers have been known to, allegedly, misuse or misreport tip credits, or even steal tips from their servers. While female servers receive less money in median hourly wages, compared with their male coworkers, they actually rake in more tips than their male counterparts.

Women only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, but this statistic does not seem to apply to the hospitality industry — in no small part due to tipping. The restaurant industry generates five times the average number of sexual harassment claims per worker, which may be attributed to a power imbalance between tippers, who are typically male, and servers, 70 percent of whom are female. Many argue that tips motivate the server to provide better service.

Tips are a form of variable compensation and most customers tip well for good service and less for poor service. If servers have no incentive to be quick and turn around tables faster, then customers wait longer, and restaurants make less revenue by serving fewer customers. Not only have studies shown that tipping is not an effective incentive for performance in servers,the tip structure also puts servers in the position of working for the customer rather than the restaurant.

And, it has been proven that tipping creates an environment where people of color, the young and old, women, and immigrants receive subpar service. Not to mention, nonwhite servers make less than their white peers for equal work. What do servers get paid in Massachusetts? What is minimum wage for a server in MA? How much should Servers get paid? How do servers get paid? Do servers keep all their tips? How much do servers make an hour without tips?

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