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[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The server minimum wage in my province is $16.55/hr, the base minimum wage is $17.20/hr, a difference of $0.65/hr.

If the server get a $1 tip per hour, they are beating minmum wage. I'm not sure if the numbers are worse in the US but this really doesn't seem that bad. I think servers should be paid the normal minimum wage, but i doubt there are many servers that stay employed at the restaurant making less than $1/hr in tips.

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Which province is that? The only province I can find with a tipped minimum wage is Quebec and both of their minimum wages are lower than anything you said.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I searched for server minimum wage in Ontario.

[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I guess you can find anything if you search for what you want to hear.

Here's the Ontario ESA Nothing about server or tipped wages.

Heres the page I assume you found (it was right near the top results of "server minimum wage in Ontario") $16.55 is the old minimum wage for everyone until it went to $17.20 this October.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I must have used an old source it did change very recently. I only knew servers made a different wage because my sister worked as a server. I should have also mentioned that when the server wage was in effect, servers were guaranteed to be brought up to standard minimum wage if they failed to make enough tips.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

The tipped minimum wage in the US is far less than 96% of non-tipped. Federally it's more like 70% of standard minimum wage, in my state it's about 75%.

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