New minumum wage questionFollow

I'm curious - since a lot of states are adopting new minimum wage requirements (especially my home state of pennsylvania - from 5.15/hr to 7.15/hr), every article I've found seems to only describe hourly wages for non-tipped workers.

Does anyone have any idea if the minimum wage for servers is increasing as well? I'm considering getting a job at a new 5-star restraunt that just opened as a food runner (a friend knows the hiring manager, and the runners regularly bring home 3-500$ from tips a night), and despite the good income, it'd be nice if my hourly wage would be going up as well. 2.13 an hour is nice and all, but hey, I'll take every cent I can get.

Thanks for the advice! I just checked out the website and found it in their FAQ - it's staying at the same level rate, but its been amended so that if your hourly earnings plus tip don't equate to the state minimum wage for the time worked, the employer is legally bound to compensate for the difference. Interesting stuff.

Thanks for the help again!

Nope. Prices will go up to cancel most of the wage increase :/. (labor costs go up so people have to charge more for products and services to break even, and people know they can charge more because people have more money). Sadly bumping up minimum wage won't increase *spending power* of the average worker much. That being said, I see it as a good thing.

Not worth it. If your intelligent enough that you could go to college and make it you should:

1. Save the money you would spend on college, use it to put a down payment on a home.

2. Buy a computer.

3. Teach yourself how to do stuff. Lot's of stuff.

4. Market yourself as a Multi-Tasker or Generalist.

5. Accept offered job, and manage people w/degrees that can't find anything in thier field.

I agree.

Ever work in a job that requires a decent tip to make a decent living? Ever get stiffed despite doing a great job? No? Then shut the fuck up.

What do you know about it, Git? As a Mexican busboy in a Jewish restuarant you aren't eligible for tips anyways. You're lucky to get the leftover bagels and lox at the close of shift, dude.

Totem

I think you forgot to add, "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"

Totem

ugh,I forgot this moran makes less sense than a foreigner with profound mental retardation and suffering through delirium tremens.

6.85 in ohio but i wish i would get a raise for it cause i make 30k a year.

Pffft, losers, if authorization exists for $7.50 an hour, then authorization exists for $75/hour. As long as you "say" so <wink>, commie-un-american ba$tard. Use the force, Rapists.

Edit: Oh, I'm sorry, do we need a ballot initiative to define Rape the same way we define Race, ala MI 2006? No "sperm diversity" defense?

Y'all are trying awful hard as a propganda machine that ostensibly posseses power.

Grid+Lock+&Load.

Edited, Nov 12th 2006 at 3:38am PST by MonxDoT

waaah waaah. Cry me a river then go get a real job, or learn to do yours properly and MAYBE I'll give you an extra nickel.




Maybe you and Git should spend less time on the asylum and more time in school.

I must resist the temptation to quote Reservoir Dogs!


Hell, I'd work for that. I love me some lox!