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Why hasn't the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13/hour been increased in 33 years?
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No I don't. The Federal minimum wage has been increased multiple times but the tipped federal minimum wage hasn't in the same time period.
Lobbies and politicians with "better" things to focus on. However, there has been an attempt, it just gets killed off.
See the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raise_the_Wage_Act
See the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raise_the_Wage_Act
But the employer has a bigger burden than before because the minimum wage has risen.
Some tipped servers don't want it away because they make more with tips than a consistent wage, so there is little desire within the house to want change.
1) Politicians aren't incentivized to better the pay of tipped workers. What do they get out of it? And there are likely plenty who have their hands in restaurants/food service who don't see raising their pay as a benefit.
2) Lobbied by plenty of businessmen to not increase their pay.
3) A devaluation of tipped workers in the workforce.
4) Likely an incorrect belief that many of these people are making tons of money on top of tips, both by disconnected politicians who have no sense of the normal struggles of their constituents and regular people are just ignorant to the realities of food service work.
There are other reasons but I just wanted to list these.
2) Lobbied by plenty of businessmen to not increase their pay.
3) A devaluation of tipped workers in the workforce.
4) Likely an incorrect belief that many of these people are making tons of money on top of tips, both by disconnected politicians who have no sense of the normal struggles of their constituents and regular people are just ignorant to the realities of food service work.
There are other reasons but I just wanted to list these.
I think we should be careful in assuming our personal anecdotes are representative of the general populace. The BLS data suggests that it's not even half of this on average.
Definitely not a livable wage.
Most is probably the stretchiest of all stretches here and knowing one or a few highly successful people in a field doesn't mean that's the norm at all.
That is correct. This isn't some mystery. lol.
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