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"When I was working as a waiter (2004 - 2011-ish), hourly wage in PA for tipped workers was $2.70/hr. The last waiting gig I had wasn't fine dining, but a high capacity/high volume bar-and-grille. In peak season (Spring/Summer, the place had a ton of outside seating), I was taking home close to $600 a night after tip-out. There were plenty of occasions where I took home more than that (usually if there was something special going on in the city). I was pretty damn good at my job, the amount I was bringing in was pretty impressive among the staff. That said, there were a handful of people making well more than me, and a group of folks on wait staff that weren't. I was somewhere in the upper-middle. What we ALL had in common though, is that we were all making significantly more than minimum wage.

I'm going to be honest; a lot of the conversation taking place in this thread is odd, because it's really not about service workers. A lot of these posts (not all, but a lot) are taking personal preference and centering the experience of the tipper, and dressing it up as "concern for the worker." "

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