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- The legal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13.
- Business Insider spoke with 6 people who shared how they earned higher tips at work.
- Servers wore pigtails, red lipstick, and even gave away free food to earn more tips.
A tipped employee in the US can legally earn as little as $2.13 an hour from their employer. The rest of their wage depends on the generosity of consumers. As companies everywhere ask more and more customers to tip, workers who rely solely on tips to earn a liveable wage have gotten creative.