Tipping is a prevalent practice in the United States and has been subject to debate in recent years, partly amidst a global pandemic that drastically impacted the restaurant industry and triggered a cost-of-living crisis.
The fact sheet provides national and state-by-state estimates of the gender, racial, and ethnic composition of the server workforce, as well as estimates of median annual earnings for servers who worked full-time year-round, and the proportion of servers who earned below the federal poverty level even though they worked full-time year-round.
