Minimum Wage Benefits

Raise the tipped minimum wage: The gender wage gap is vividly observed in tipped workers. The federal tipped minimum wage, which hasn’t been changed since 1991, only pays workers $2.13 per hour. According to the Economic Policy Institute, women make up two-thirds of tipped workers and are 70 percent of food servers and bartenders, occupations that comprise more than half of the tipped workforce. Tipped workers have a higher poverty rate than non-tipped workers, and 46 percent rely on government assistance to make ends meet.

What kind of pay would you demand if you were expected to clean dirty toilets, pick up germy trash, and deal with customers who are nasty, rude and disrespectful to you while you are serving them? Would you do it for three dollars an hour? What about seven or eight dollars an hour? Well, many minimum wage jobs involve such duties as these. However, the minimum wage here in Illinois is only $8.25 per hour (US Dept. of Labor, 2014). In Indiana, the state where I work, it is a dollar less than that (US Dept. of Labor, 2014). The following information will discuss reasons why this wage should be increased and the benefits that accompany an increase for all of us regardless to whether we earn the minimum wage or a higher a wage.

With minimum wage for a waitress being only $2.13, tips are essentially the waitress’s prime form of payment. Author Patrick M. Sheridan stated in his CNN article “predominantly tipped occupations are twice as likely as other workers to experience poverty, and servers are almost three times as likely to live in poverty." Statistics from an article on Mother Jones says the overall poverty rate stands at 6.3 percent. For restaurant workers, the rate is 16.7 percent. “Tipped workers and their families often depend on welfare programs to survive — and they do so at significantly higher rates than non-tipped workers, according to a 2014 report from the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank focused on labor issues.” When you fail to tip your waiters, you are predominantly part of the cause of poverty. Stuart wrote in his article “Because of inflation, the value of the tipped minimum wage has steadily fallen over the years.” Leaving waiters bringing home less and less in tips.

Due to the struggling econemy i understand not being paid enough, but i do not think that servers should get paid minimum wage plus addtional tips. This could cause smaller restraunts to lose more money and possibly go out of business, there is a chance that the server's would be making more money than people with high labor jobs and minimum wage isn't meant to be for adults to be living on.

I agree that we shouldn't increase the minimum wage for non-tipped employees. If the non-tip wage was increased most workers would lose their jobs, or layed off so that the other workers can make the desired amount they are wanting. Many restaurants would have to also close down due to lack of bussiness.

Yes, it is fair for everyone getting paid the same, but it can be hard to make sure your buisness will continue to grow. Just like the manager in "Cannot" mentions, "I frear that Waffle Now will lose many customers becase of this. The resturant may be forced to close." My family owns a resturant in Taos NM, and I understand how hard it will be to keep the buisness going if he raises the wages. Its only fair to keep paying the tipped minimum wage, just to keep the resturant open.

Back in 1966 The United States we established that tipping services should have a set minimum wage; It was set at 50% of the current minimum wage at the time. In 1991, when minimum wage was 4.25, tipping wage was at 2.13. (Stuart 2) It has not changed since that day in history. Contrary to the major accepted practice that tipping helps servers make more money If we abolish tipping, we will be able to lift those working in the service industry out of poverty, provide a better work environment for restaurants, and develop a new system to show gratitude towards those who do an exceptional job.

Since the year 1991, the United States minimum tipped wage for servers and waiters has been the same. From then til now, the minimum wage for non-tipped employees in the country has almost doubled causing a rift in equality in the workforce. Employees who depend solely on tips struggle to make a living and are forced to work more than one

For the past year there has been a tremendous debate over raising the minimum wage for fast food workers. The current minimum wage is $7.25 but it is being disputed that it’s not enough to live off of as prices are too high in order to survive. Majority of the people who are on strike, and are with raising minimum wage to $15 an hour, are people who work at McDonald’s. I highly disagree with raising the minimum wage for many reasons.

Teachers, police officers and doctors all help society be safe, healthy, and educated. They do all of this and get paid for it. One of the things they have in common is that they don’t have to work for tips. Imagine a world where you tip your teacher after they showed you how to solve a math problem. It would be ridiculous to tip your teacher for them doing their job. We wouldn’t treat professionals like this, so why do we treat waiters and waitresses like this? With our current way of using tips as a way of rewarding the server is degrading because they are experts at serving multiple people a day and they are paid low wages with an insignificant amount of tips for their professionalism. America’s tipping culture has been around for a long

According to the Center for American Progress Organization there are seven vital steps that can be taken in order to decrease the gender wage gap. Firstly, this organization firmly believes that raising the minimum wage will positively affect the wage gap between men and women. Averages illustrate that differentiation 's among men and women 's job selections could be considered for virtually half of the gender pay gap. Increasing the minimum wage will benefit those dedicated women laborers by helping support their families. Two third of mothers are sole providers within their households and these same women are the ones, who made up relatively two-thirds of all minimum-salaried employees in the year 2012 (Glynn, Fisher & Baxter, 2014). In 2014, the minimum wage was only $7.25 an hour which means that a person, who works full-time would only bring in $15,080 over the course of a year. This is not enough for an individual, who has a family to live on because in actuality it is barely enough for a single person to survive on. This particular organization feels if the minimum-wage is increased to at least $10.10 an hour, then it would benefit around 15 millions women and also help narrow the pay gap that exists between men and women. Secondly, the Center for American Progress Organization believes that increasing the tipped minimum salary would close the gender pay gap, as well. The minimum tip wage has not been altered since the year 1991 and it only rewards employees $2.13 a

Should all fast food workers get a higher wage? No, but I think many fast food workers should get paid more. The reason I think this is because most hard working fast food workers aren't getting paid enough for the amount of work they do. Others aren’t working hard at all, or their jobs are to easy. Raising the minimum wage would pay bad workers too mutch. Still, we need to change something, if the minimum wage stays the same, fast food places won’t pay hard workers enough. Raising the minimum wage would force fast food restaurants to give higher wages to the people who don't deserve it. My solution would be to have a separate organization examines the work of the fast food workers to determine what positions deserve above minimum wage

Everyone is equal at work, wages should be the same for employees. They work hard to do their best. It's not fair for servers paying income tax on their tips. This makes them need government assistance and tipping is not enough because there could be some good days and bad days as well.

Do you believe that fast food workers deserve fifteen dollars an hour for easy work, if so here is why they should not? Minimum wage shouldn’t be raised because teens won't be able to get jobs, people who have an important job will want to work at a fast food restaurants because of the pay, and if they do get the raise the prices of the food.

I belive that employees should be paied minimum wadge. I belive this because tips are not concecutively the same.Your job should be at least the same as another employee with the same job.