Do higher tipped minimum wages boost server pay?

Authors

John E. Anderson, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
ORN B. BODVARSSON, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

August 2005

Comments

Published in Applied Economics Letters 12 (2005), pp. 391–393; doi 10.1080/13504850500092459. Copyright © 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd. Used by permission. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals

Abstract

Do tipped servers in states with higher tipped minimum wages earn more, ceteris paribus, than servers elsewhere? Using 1999 data on waitpersons and bartenders, little evidence is found of a premium to servers in states with more generous minimum wages.