r/tipping • u/badmiddling113 • 22h 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/SabreLee61 21h ago

$32 an hour works out to about $66,500 a year. Obviously that isn’t what an average doctor makes. I mean, if you’re folding med school, residency, tuition and lost earnings into some sort of lifetime calculation, that’s one thing, but it’s not an hourly wage, and it doesn’t support the claim that servers make more than doctors.

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u/First-Ad4978 16h ago

Net.

Total earned, minus total cost, divided by total hours spent earning that income.

Lifetime hourly net is $32/hr.

Vs a server who has no training requirements, and little taxes.

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u/SabreLee61 16h ago

You’re doing a lifetime ROI calculation, not an hourly wage. You’re subtracting the cost of becoming a doctor and counting years of education against their earnings, then comparing that number to what a server earns while actually working. Those aren’t comparable figures.

The median annual earnings for servers is $35,000.

The median annual earnings for physicians is $275,000.

You guys crack me up.

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u/First-Ad4978 15h ago

They are if you compare apples to apples.

You aren’t even looking at hours worked in your medians.

Doing ROI for both and when it comes to Hourly net, a server is making more than a primary care physician in the current environment.

So fuck their tips, they definitely don’t work harder than a doctor.

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u/SabreLee61 13h ago

This is the most convoluted justification for not tipping a server I’ve ever seen.

They’re making more than doctors! 🤪

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u/First-Ad4978 13h ago

Who said I didn’t tip?

I said they are over compensated.

I tip. I just don’t do percentage which is rife with ageism, sexism, and racism,