Question you vote on
Should employers pay tipped workers the full state minimum wage before tips?
Last activity November 5, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)
Voters rejected it
Voted on November 5, 2024
- Yes 34%
- No 61%
- Left blank 5%
Shares of every ballot cast, so the blanks are voters who skipped the question.
Voters rejected a proposal to raise the hourly wage employers pay tipped workers to the full state minimum wage over five years. The proposal also would have allowed employers paying at least that wage to distribute pooled tips among tipped and non-tipped workers.
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What the two answers meant
Yes
A yes vote would have raised the wage employers pay tipped workers to the full state minimum over five years, after which employers could have pooled tips among all non management workers.
No
This is what voters chose
A no vote kept the existing system, under which employers may pay a lower hourly wage but must make up any shortfall if wages plus tips do not reach the full minimum wage. It also kept the existing tip-pooling rules.
What was on the ballot
Do you approve of a law summarized below, on which no vote was taken by the Senate or the House of Representatives before May 1, 2024?
This proposed law would gradually increase the minimum hourly wage an employer must pay a tipped worker, over the course of five years, on the following schedule: • To 64% of the state minimum wage on January 1, 2025; • To 73% of the state minimum wage on January 1, 2026; • To 82% of the state minimum wage on January 1, 2027; • To 91% of the state minimum wage on January 1, 2028; and • To 100% of the state minimum wage on January 1, 2029. The proposed law would require employers to continue to pay tipped workers the difference between the state minimum wage and the total amount a tipped worker receives in hourly wages plus tips through the end of 2028. The proposed law would also permit employers to calculate this difference over the entire weekly or bi-weekly payroll period. The requirement to pay this difference would cease when the required hourly wage for tipped workers would become 100% of the state minimum wage on January 1, 2029. Under the proposed law, if an employer pays its workers an hourly wage that is at least the state minimum wage, the employer would be permitted to administer a “tip pool” that combines all the tips given by customers to tipped workers and distributes them among all the workers, including non-tipped workers.
Officially titled "Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers"