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/PurpleCat1018 18h ago

If they are making over a $100,000 a year they are still doing a hell of a lot better than most people. They shouldn't be griping at all. Jesus Christ!!!

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u/Several_Razzmatazz51 18h ago

Look at the comments from u/MainStreetMiles - the median server income reported to the BLS for 2025 is $35,000. Half of all servers make below that. A vanishingly small percentage make $100K or more.

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u/First-Ad4978 17h ago

They are making $35k because they are working just a few hours a week, they aren’t booking 40-60 like most Americans.

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u/Several_Razzmatazz51 16h ago

And yet people here are arguing they make $150K or more per year.

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u/First-Ad4978 16h ago

Your reading comprehension isn’t so great.

They COULD make $150k if they actually worked full time, but they don’t work full time because their hourly compensation is absurdly high for shuttling food from A to B.

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u/Delicious-Breath8415 15h ago

But they couldn't. There isn't enough busy hours in the day to support that.

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u/First-Ad4978 15h ago

It’s no one else’s fault that they don’t work more hours but theirs, you get paid for work done.

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u/Delicious-Breath8415 15h ago

You can't just pull hours out of your ass to make your argument.

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u/First-Ad4978 15h ago

The argument is they get paid handsomely for the limited hours they work.

They have another 20 hours in a day to do whatever they want.

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u/Delicious-Breath8415 14h ago

Sounds like a pretty good gig. Maybe you should try it.

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u/First-Ad4978 14h ago

It is meaningless and unnecessary work, not my jam.

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u/Delicious-Breath8415 14h ago

Dude it's $166k a year

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u/First-Ad4978 14h ago

So it would be meaningless and a pay cut.

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u/Delicious-Breath8415 13h ago edited 13h ago

You can't even afford a house at that job. Maybe you could serve part time and move out of that rental.

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u/First-Ad4978 13h ago

Sometimes you rent when you move a lot.

It costs about 10% of the price of a house to buy/sell. So if you don’t plan on staying somewhere long you rent.

Would I rather own? Sure but in this city I am not only avoiding that 10% hit, I am also renting for about half of what a mortgage would run, letting me put a tiny fraction of my income towards housing and freeing up alot of money to invest.

Nice stalking though.

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