Illinois

  • Chicago Restaurants Are Already Bracing for Upcoming Wage Hikes

    March 2024 ·   · 

    On July 1, Chicago will begin eliminating its tip credit, raising the minimum wage for tipped restaurant employees from $9.48 to $15.80 per hour (smaller businesses with less than 20 employees are currently subject to a $15 per hour regular minimum wage). Similar to the aftermath in the District of Columbia, hundreds of restaurants immediately expressed concerns that the wage hikes would negatively impact them and their…

  • Survey Finds Tip Credit Elimination Harms Chicago’s Restaurants and Employees

    September 2023 ·   · 

    Chicago’s tipped minimum wage has been on the rise for years, leaving declining restaurant employment growth in its aftermath. Yet in the last city council meeting, Chicago aldermen proposed legislation to scrap the Windy City’s tip credit completely. A similar move is already playing out poorly in the District of Columbia, where diners are confused about how, if at all, to tip their local servers. Across the…

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    New Data Shows Restaurant Workers Are Earning $18/Hr Or More Nationwide

    November 27, 2024•MinimumWage.com

    Point of sale platform Square releases new data quarterly on earnings and tips for workers across the country – and the latest results show restaurant workers are earning substantial tips and well above minimum wages across the country. Square finds that the median restaurant employee is earning a $14.20 per hour base wage – and…

    CA Rejects Statewide Wage Hike For the First Time in State Ballot Measure History

    November 22, 2024•MinimumWage.com

    After weeks of vote counting across the Golden State, the Associated Press finally called the race for Proposition 32 – which would raise the state’s minimum wage from $16 to $18 an hour. The measure was rejected by a 50.8% to 49.2% vote as of November 22. This is the first time California voters have…

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