Women Stiffed With Regularity by Minimum Wage
source: http://www.womensenews.org/story/equal-payfair-wage/120206/minimum-wage-doesnt-pay-hard-work...
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While women make up just under half of the national work force, they are roughly 60 percent of minimum-wage workers.
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, or less than $14,000 a year for a full-time worker, which falls below the federal poverty line for a family of two or more. This breaks down to about $270 a week, before taxes, to pay for all of the bills and expenses a family faces.
http://www.womensenews.org/story/equal-payfair-wage/120206/minimum-wage-doesnt-p...
The sub-minimum wage hits women hard because 72.9 percent of tipped workers are women compared to less than half the overall labor force.
The pay of tipped workers has languished because an obscure federal provision, called the tip credit, has established a sub-minimum wage for tipped workers: $2.15 per hour or $4,333 a year for a full-time worker.
Female tipped workers, overall, average 50 cents less per hour than their male counterparts because they are employed in lower paying sectors, such as food service and home health.
Among wait staff, the wage gap is even worse: women earn 83 cents less per hour than do men because they are more likely to be employed by fast food restaurants than fine dining establishments.
http://www.womensenews.org/story/equal-payfair-wage/120205/tipped-workers-hope-h...
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, or less than $14,000 a year for a full-time worker, which falls below the federal poverty line for a family of two or more. This breaks down to about $270 a week, before taxes, to pay for all of the bills and expenses a family faces.
http://www.womensenews.org/story/equal-payfair-wage/120206/minimum-wage-doesnt-p...
The sub-minimum wage hits women hard because 72.9 percent of tipped workers are women compared to less than half the overall labor force.
The pay of tipped workers has languished because an obscure federal provision, called the tip credit, has established a sub-minimum wage for tipped workers: $2.15 per hour or $4,333 a year for a full-time worker.
Female tipped workers, overall, average 50 cents less per hour than their male counterparts because they are employed in lower paying sectors, such as food service and home health.
Among wait staff, the wage gap is even worse: women earn 83 cents less per hour than do men because they are more likely to be employed by fast food restaurants than fine dining establishments.
http://www.womensenews.org/story/equal-payfair-wage/120205/tipped-workers-hope-h...
