Featured Research (See All)
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Do Higher Tipped Minimum Wages Reduce Race, Ethnic, or Gender Earnings Gaps for Restaurant Workers?:
In recent years, labor activists have invested considerable financial resources in campaigns to eliminate what’s known as the tip credit. The tip credit represents the difference between a set base hourly wage for restaurant employees who regularly earn substantial tips, and the regular minimum wage rate. This difference counts regular tip income toward the minimum wage requirement. Legally, the Fair… -
Crisis in California: A Survey of Fast Food Employers' Responses to California's $20 Minimum Wage
Effective April 1, 2024, many limited-service restaurant operators (also referred to as “fast food” or “quick-service” restaurants) in California are required to pay employees a minimum wage of at least $20 per hour. The law that increased this limit also allows for future increases to the quick service minimum wage based on recommendations of a Fast-Food Council. While those subject… -
Policy Snapshot Chicago: Chicago’s Restaurants Already Impacted by Tip Credit Elimination
In the fall of 2023, Chicago’s City Council passed a full tip credit elimination bill that will go into effect on July 1, 2024. The law will raise the city’s minimum wage for tipped restaurant employees from $9.48 per hour to $11.02 per hour on that date, and continue to increase annually until restaurant employers will be required to pay…
Published Op-Eds (See All)
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Neumark: Raising tipped minimum wages won’t close minority and gender pay gaps
September 24, 2024 • The Detroit News
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Save Michigan restaurants from failed tip credit elimination experiment
August 9, 2024 • The Detroit News
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California’s not so golden for fast food businesses
July 25, 2024 • Orange County Register
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Listen to Ohio’s servers – they’re the ones whose jobs are on the line
June 27, 2024 • Center Square Ohio
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Eliminating New York’s tip credit is a terrible idea
March 25, 2024 • The Buffalo News
Press Releases (See All)
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New Study Shows Tipped Wage Hikes Don’t Help Minorities, Women
September 9, 2024
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New Survey: 89% Of CA Fast Food Restaurants Have Slashed Employee Hours
July 23, 2024
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Will your favorite Chicago bar survive July’s wage hikes?
June 28, 2024
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California AG Handcuffs Restaurants, Bans Service Charges
May 2, 2024
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EPI Warns R.I. House: Tip Credit Elimination Will Turn Rhode Island into D.C. Disaster
March 27, 2024