This past week, voters in Washington, D.C. elected to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers to minimum wage by passing Initiative 77. Wait aren’t they already receiving minimum wage? Sort of. While the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, the minimum wage for an employee who receives at least $30 per month in tips is only $2.13 an hour. This does not mean that an employee who works a 40 hour week is only going home with less than $100 gross. The employee is expected to receive tips that bring them up to the regular minimum wage, and should that…
