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$2.13 an hour plus $100 in tips for 40 hours: does my employer owe me?
$2.13 an hour plus $100 in tips for 40 hours falls short of the $290 that 40 hours at the $7.25 federal minimum pay. Your $85.20 in cash wages and $100 in tips leave a $104.80 difference your employer owes you, so you earn $7.25 an hour before taxes.
Top-up your employer owes
$104.80
- Your pay per hour, with tips$7.25
- Total pay this week$290.00
- Cash wages from your employer$85.20
- Tips per hour$2.50
- Tip credit your employer takes$100.00
- Overtime premium (the half)$0.00
The tip credit is the part of the minimum wage your tips cover: at most $5.12 an hour ($7.25 − $2.13), never more than the tips you got, and checked over each workweek. Your employer must tell you about it before taking it (DOL Fact Sheet #15).
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