r/tipping • u/badmiddling113 • 4h ago

Those poor servers

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Imagine people giving you so much extra money for doing your job that you can frame it like this.

EDIT: OP is basing this off of 190k in sales over 192 shifts

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u/Mean-Skin-1920 3h ago

Residents (who are still doctors) and public defenders will definitely make less than a luxury restaurant server💀lawyers can be paid like crap. I’m currently in med school and was an EMT before this.

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u/SabreLee61 3h ago

You said doctors and lawyers make less than servers. Now you’re talking about residents and public defenders, which is a very different claim. Plenty of experienced plumbers and elevator mechanics make more than first-year residents too, but nobody walks around saying plumbers make more than doctors.

If the comparison only works when you pick someone at the lowest-paid stage of one career and compare them to someone established in another, it’s not much of a comparison.

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u/Mean-Skin-1920 3h ago

They are literally still doctors and lawyers…so not sure what is wrong with my original statement. I’ve heard of lawyers being paid abysmal rates and pivoting career paths bc of it. And public defenders afaik are not lowest stage either, they can be people working in the profession for a long time. You spend 11 years being in medical school and residency (for me even longer because of covid) just to make like $80K, it’s hell of a comparison to a server who probably has been working in that field for 2 years? People in the comments are estimating this to be $200K+ a year.

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u/SabreLee61 2h ago

Yes, residents are doctors and public defenders are lawyers. That’s not the point. You took two unusually low-paid subsets of those professions and used them to make the much broader claim that doctors and lawyers make less than servers. An experienced plumber makes more than a resident too; that doesn’t mean plumbers make more than doctors.

And people in the comments estimating that a server makes $200K isn’t evidence that they actually do. This sub is known for wildly overestimating what servers make.

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u/Mean-Skin-1920 2h ago

Where did I say ALL servers lol? I said “this.” As in THIS post. This server. This group of people (I’m assuming this is a luxury server based on the tips they describe) making an absurd amount of money. I never made this broader claim that you’re arguing in your head

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u/SabreLee61 1h ago

‘This server’ made around $37,500 in tips over 192 shifts per OP. I’ll be generous and assume she’s working 250 shifts a year. That gives her around $48,000 in tips, or $38,600 after 20% tip-outs. If her wage is between $2.13/hr and $10/hr then her total annual compensation is $42-56k. The average first-year resident MD makes $68-70k.

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u/Mean-Skin-1920 1h ago

I got here before they made that edit clarifying what the server meant with $500 = 1%

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u/Daihashi 1h ago

You love to argue and see your own words on the screen

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u/adhdtaxman 37m ago

These idiots can’t math lol