Minimum wage for tipped D.C. workers will rise to $16.10 an hour by 2027 as voters are projected to approve Initiative 82
are making the commonwealth a consequential battleground.Servers and other tipped workers in the District earn a minimum wage lower than non-tipped workers. Though employers are supposed to track tips to ensure their workers earn at least the minimum wage, a recent study by advocates favoring the initiative showed that only around 35 percent do.
Annie Herhold, a 34-year-old former waitress who had just voted at Oyster-Adams Bilingual School in Woodley Park, said she’d had to conduct research before voting for Initiative 82, but the Virginia Beach native said she supports paying tipped workers more. “I think it’s bad for inflation,” Dempsey, a D.C. native and registered Democrat, said as he left Barry Farm Recreation Center. “I really just think it’s bad for the people that are working.”
Some voters were reluctant to take a side. When attorney Nick Marrone left Anacostia’s Union Temple Baptist Church with his two-year-old daughter Diana in his arms, he snapped a picture of them wearing “I Voted” stickers with wide smiles. But he decided to leave the back of the ballot, where Initiative 82 was found, blank.“There’s a lot of tipped workers that would rather have the tips and they’re worried that they’re going to lose the tips if the minimum wage goes up,” Marrone, 38, said.
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