Tips - WtF

[faerykin]

Last I knew, wait-staff and bartenders receive lower hourly wages due to the fact that their jobs imply that they receive tips.

So what about these people?

Do people claim Tip Jars on their taxes?

I'm sure wait-staff & bartenders do. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Comments

[blackdragon420]

Before I stopped going to the barber, it had become customary to tip them. Now I sorta understood, I went to a local babershop and they only charged about $6 or $7 and they spent about 40 minutes or so cutting my hair, so throwing them another dollar or two wasn't a big deal. I heard my mom and sister talking about how they tipped their stylist. I said "wait, you guys go and pay like $75-$100 for them to wash cut and stle your hair, and THEN give them more money?" The response was they have to give the salon a certain % or some of them get paid hourly or by the job, depending on the salon. I thought to myself, I need a gig where I can make $50 for about 2 hours of work and then get a $20 tax free tip on top of that!

[ravensden]

Well, most servers and bartenders claim some of their tips on their taxes, though most that I know of don't claim all of them.

As for the mooks with the tip jars, I'd guess they are just trying to get a few extra bucks where they can get them, though on the other hand I'm sure that most places that have tips jars (coffee shops & sub sandwich places & the like) don't exactly pay a great deal either. For the most part, I don't use tip jars, though sometimes I feel as though I've been treated really well, or the service or food that I got was outstanding, and I may tip a buck or something. But not usually.