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Title: Why D.C. should implement Initiative 77: Tipped workers do better in ‘one-fair-wage’ cities; restaurants continue to thrive
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: This report analyzes the tipped workforce and restaurant industry in Washington, D.C., and compares findings for D.C. with two prominent one-fair-wage cities that, like D.C., have enacted $15 minimum wages: San Francisco and Seattle. Tipped workers in San Francisco receive the regular minimum wage as a base wage, regardless of any tips. Tipped workers at large employers in Seattle also receive the regular minimum wage as a base wage regardless of tips, and tipped workers at small employers in Seattle must be paid a base wage no less than $1.00 below than the regular minimum wage. That means tipped workers in both cities were paid much higher minimum wages than D.C. tipped workers during the period of our analysis (even though the $15 minimum wage had not yet been fully phased in in either city during the study period).
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Authors: Cooper, David
Publisher: Economic Policy Institute
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare, Work, Family, and Time
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