Chart: Tipped workers’ poverty rates are lower in states where they’re paid the full minimum wage: Poverty rates of non-tipped workers, tipped workers, and waiters and bartenders, by state tipped-minimum-wage level

Figure A

	Nationwide	Low ($2.13 tipped minimum wage)	Medium (above $2.13 and below regular minimum wage)	Equal treatment (full minimum wage)
Non-tipped workers	6.5%	7.0%	6.0%	6.8%
Tipped workers	12.8%	14.5%	12.5%	10.8%
Waiters/bartenders	14.9%	18.0%	14.4%	10.2%

Source: Adapted from Allegretto and Cooper (2014)

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