The minimum wage required to be paid to tipped employees. (FE)

However, if an employer of a tipped employee establishes that, when adding the tips received by the tipped employee in a week to the wages paid to the tipped employee in that week, the tipped employee receives not less than the applicable minimum wage (generally $7.25 per hour), the minimum wage for the tipped employee is $2.33 per hour or, with respect to an employee under 20 years of age in the first 90 consecutive days of employment with his or her employer (opportunity employee), $2.13 per hour.

Beginning approximately six months after enactment, this bill eliminates the alternate minimum wage for tipped employees who are opportunity employees and raises the minimum wage for all tipped employees by $0.95, to $3.28 per hour. The bill further raises the minimum wage for tipped employees by $0.95 per year until it reaches $7.08 per hour. Beginning one year after it reaches $7.08 per hour, the bill eliminates the separate minimum wage for tipped employees altogether, making tipped employees subject to the general minimum wage of $7.25 per hour or, for opportunity employees, $5.90 per hour.