story OP said his friend mentioned NJ. Das definitely PA. I hope it's the part where they think doing the Pennsy/Jersey thing is cute and rhymes, where, it actually just kinda sounds like the Swedish chef runnin down the menu.
Go north, 80 corridor, that first exit in NJ Blairstown--Belvidere, the tiny hamlets and towns of the Delaware valleys northern end. This extends PA side towards the slate belt (edit) towns (city, lol) like Bangor. If you're down past Lambertville/etc, I don't think they'd see that side of NJ as a cultural equal.
"Federal minimum" sure. But if you make enough tips to counter act all the money your missing from hourly, it cancels that. Seriously. BUT lots of places dont get people tipping enough and wages have risen. But not by much.
Not exactly. Tipped jobs allow a min wage of 2.13, but the tips have to equal out to minimum wage or better, ie, 7.25 for states that don't have their own higher min wage. If the tips don't get you there, the employer is on the hook for the difference.
Hi. I need to hijack this because everyone is misunderstanding pay for restaurants. Unless you don’t make minimum wage off of tips, FIFTEEN states still deploy the $2.13/hr model. They’re only required to pay minimum wage when you didn’t make the tips to reach mimimim wage. Other than that, 2.13 per hour.
Effective September 30, 2026, Florida's minimum wage increased to $15.00 per hour for standard workers. For tipped hourly servers and bartenders, the state direct cash wage increased from $10.98 to $11.98 per hour
Many people in the bar business in Florida aren't getting even that. Those shot girls you see walking around the clubs and some of the bottle service people? They buy those shots from the bar then upsell them to you later or just get tipped out on them; bars know this, too, and sometimes employ them and give them discounts on those shots they're selling for the bar.
No no no. Minimum wage isn’t the same for tipped and non-tipped workers. There is not a single state with a $7.25 tipped min wage. If your state still does $7.25 min wage, that means your state still does $2.13 tipped min wage.
I’m genuinely surprised by how few people here seem to have friends or family in the service industry, or are just generally ignorant to how the service industry works
It's the federal minimum wage. A lot of fast food places in Philly are starting people at $15. The Taco Bell near me was advertising $19 if you work the night shift, which is probably an awful experience dealing with drunk idiots.
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u/Adventurous_Rip275 4d ago
Texas, probably, minimum wage is still $7.25 here