[kevin_thibedeau]

US tip workers also get full minimum wage. Tip workers who don't meet the minimum wage threshold on total earnings are compensated for the shortfall. The lower tip worker rate is a subsidy to business owners paid for by guilt tripping their customers.

[Semaphor]

> US tip workers also get full minimum wage. Tip workers who don't meet the minimum wage threshold on total earnings are compensated for the shortfall.

So they don’t get tips on top of the minimum wage.

[roncesvalles]

Another way to see it is that the employer steals the first hours_worked*(minimum_wage-actual_wage) dollars from what the employee got in tips.

[seanmcdirmid]

In states like Washington and I believe California, they get minimum wage at least before tips.