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Originally Posted by acescracked84
Let me start my post off by saying that I'm a pro and a very generous tipper, perhaps too generous. One of my good friends was telling me how he started to stiff dealers in Vegas and was going to do so in all games. A lot of the things he said were very true and made me ask myself a lot of questions.
Dealing cards is not the same as serving someone a drink or waiting on someone and taking their food order.
Nevada's minimum wage is $8.25(no health insurance)/$7.25(health insurance) which is $1 above the federal minimum wage or required employer health insurance which is only in a handful of states.
Nevada's
tipped minimum wage is $8.25 which is the highest in the nation versus the federal
tipped minimum wage of $2.13. This also means that Nevada's
tipped minimum wage is higher than the federal standard minimum wage. In fact, Nevada's
tipped minimum wage is higher than the top 5 of all states/cities' standard minimum wage.
If that wasn't all:
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-6...l#NRS608Sec160
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NRS 608.160 Taking or making deduction on account of tips or gratuities unlawful; employees may divide tips or gratuities among themselves.
1. It is unlawful for any person to:
(a) Take all or part of any tips or gratuities bestowed upon the employees of that person.
(b) Apply as a credit toward the payment of the statutory minimum hourly wage established by any law of this State any tips or gratuities bestowed upon the employees of that person.
2. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent such employees from entering into an agreement to divide such tips or gratuities among themselves.
[1:17:1939; 1931 NCL § 2826] + [2:17:1939; 1931 NCL § 2827]—(NRS A 1967, 623; 1971, 1263; 1973, 644)
The tokes a dealer receives is in
addition to the highest
tipped minimum wage in the nation whereas the tips can't be applied to subsidize the wage unlike most states:
Example:
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Amy works in Illinois as a waitress, and earns over $30 in tips a month. This hour, Amy earned $3.50 in tips. Her employer must pay her a cash wage of at least $4.75, to bring her total earnings for the hour up to the Illinois minimum wage of $8.25.
Just about every state works in the way described in the paragraph with poor Amy.
There is a major difference in tipping a waitress who is running around getting orders barked at her from her bosses while simultaneously taking food orders with a smile on her face for a federal
tipped minimum wage of $2.13 versus a suckhole dealer who sits on his butt all day without a boss breathing down his neck at $8.25 + tokes.
Oh and the sense of entitlement in this thread by dealers is LOLable.