Chart: Waitstaff and bartenders are less likely to be in poverty when they are paid the regular minimum wage: Poverty rates of non-tipped workers, and waiters and bartenders, by state tipped-minimum-wage level | Economic Policy Institute

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Waitstaff and bartenders are less likely to be in poverty when they are paid the regular minimum wage: Poverty rates of non-tipped workers, and waiters and bartenders, by state tipped-minimum-wage level

	States with $2.13 tipped minimum wage	States with tipped minimum wage above $2.13 but below regular minimum wage	States where tipped workers get the regular minimum wage
Non-tipped workers	7.0%	6.0%	6.8%
Waitstaff/bartenders	18.0%	14.4%	10.2%

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Source: Authors' analysis of Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement microdata, 2010–2012

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Waitstaff and bartenders are less likely to be in poverty when they are paid the regular minimum wage

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