THE SUBMINIMUM WAGE for tipped workers is still just $8.00 an hour in the state of Illinois and $8.70 per hour in the city of Chicago. A direct legacy of slavery, the subminimum wage impacts a Chicago workforce of almost 100,000 tipped workers, 44 percent of whom are women and 55 percent of whom are people of color.

THE SUBMINIMUM WAGE for tipped workers is $8.00 an hour in the state of Illinois, compared to the state’s full hourly minimum wage of $13. A direct legacy of slavery, the subminimum wage impacts a Cook County workforce of almost 78,000 tipped workers, 60 percent of whom are women and 46 percent are people of color, who earn on average just $16.68 per hour.

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The California Living Wage for All Coalition is a formation of worker and criminal justice organizations seeking to advance policy that will raise the California minimum wage to be closer to what it actually costs to live in the state and end the subminimum wage for incarcerated workers.

The subminimum wage for tipped workers is 66 percent of the overall minimum wage and ranges from $8.35-10.40 an hour in the state of New York. A direct legacy of slavery, the subminimum wage impacts a workforce of nearly 330,000 tipped workers that is 58 percent women and 49 percent people of color, and an overall restaurant industry of over 625,000 workers in New York.

The subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $3.63 an hour in the state of Maryland. A direct legacy of slavery, the subminimum wage affects a workforce of over 105,000 tipped workers that is 65 percent women and 52 percent people of color. Ending this low-wage carve-out positively impacts an overall restaurant industry of over 185,000 in Maryland.

Raising the minimum wage, especially for tipped workers, workers with disabilities, and youth, is necessary to allow working people to feed their families, the right thing to do, and universally, perennially popular.

THE KEY TO SAVING THE CONNECTICUT RESTAURANT INDUSTRY POST-COVID 19The subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $6.38 an hour in the state of Connecticut. A direct legacy of slavery, the subminimum wage affects a workforce of nearly 70,000 tipped workers that is 70 percent women and 36 percent people of color. Ending this low-wage carve out positively impacts an overall restaurant industry of over 110,000 workers in Connecticut.

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NY Still Needs One Fair Wage

Governor Cuomo did not include restaurant workers when he announced at the end of 2019 that New York State would eliminate the subminimum wage for some of New York’s tipped workforce. This majority-female workforce will continue to suffer higher rates of sexual harassment and economic hardship as a result.

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This Moment is Highlighting Why We’ve Needed One Fair Wage All Along