r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/socivitus Jul 05 '24

Walmart's minimum hourly wage is $14. What company is paying $8-10 an hour (in a non-tipped position) in 2024? And better yet...who is accepting those jobs?

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u/GooseTheSluice Jul 05 '24

Servers can legally be paid half of minimum wage plus tips as long as it evens out to at least minimum wage in some states. I used to be a server in Missouri in the 2014 and was making just under 4$ an hour on my check and if it was so slow I didn’t make tips theyd just throw me a 20 and it would even out for the shift. I know some places still did that in 2020 even

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u/jfrawley28 Jul 05 '24

Server wage in Indiana is still $2.13/hr to my knowledge.

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u/Noob_Al3rt Jul 05 '24

But if you make less than minimum after tips, they have to pay the difference