Wages, incomes, poverty rates, and average weekly hours of all workers, all tipped workers, and servers and bartenders in the District of Columbia
Median hourly wage (2017$) | Median annual wage income (2017$) | Poverty rate | Average weekly work hours | Average annual work hours | |
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All D.C. workers | $31.96 | $67,387 | 4.7% | 41.5 | 2,075 |
Nontipped workers | $32.45 | $69,462 | 4.5% | 41.6 | 2,083 |
All tipped workers | $14.41 | $23,798 | 13.7% | 35.8 | 1,694 |
Servers & bartenders | $14.24 | $22,763 | 13.9% | 35.7 | 1,668 |
Notes: Data are for workers whose place of work is in the District of Columbia. Tipped occupations are listed in Appendix Table A1. Wage and annual wage income values for tipped workers include both base wages and tips.
Source: EPI analysis of American Community Survey microdata, pooled years 2012–2016 (Ruggles et al. 2018)