
Paid Sick Leave: up to 40 hours of Earned Sick Leave under NJ law (employer can decide to provide 40 hours up front or worker accrues at 1 hour per 30 hours worked).Her employer could take a tip credit against each of the 30 hours as the five hours of non-tipped work equal only 17 percent of her total work hours. She spends 5 hours a week folding napkins and setting tables.

Desiree works as a waitress 30 hours per week.
#Average busboy pay full
His employer can apply a tip credit against the full state minimum hourly wage for the 30 hours of hair styling, but not for the 10 hours spent on related non-tipped duties, as those 10 hours of non-tipped work account for 25 percent of Santiago’s work time.

#Average busboy pay plus
Now an hourly cash wage of $5.13 plus $5 an hour in tips equals $10.13, which is below the full state minimum hourly wage. During this work week, she worked 40 hours and made $200 in tips, or $5 an hour.

Her employer applied the maximum tip credit of $7.87 per hour against the full state minimum hourly wage of $13, and paid her a cash wage of $5.13. In one work week, she worked 40 hours and earned $500 in tips, or $12.50 an hour in tips. If the minimum cash wage plus the tips received by an employee do not equal at least the full state minimum hourly wage, then the employer must pay the employee the difference. Click here to see a chart of New Jersey's minimum wage.
