Hourly wages of US nonrestaurant food servers 2021

Nonrestaurant food servers in the United States had a median hourly wage of 13.81 U.S. dollars as of May 2021. In comparison, ten percent of nonrestaurant food servers earned less than 10.07 U.S. dollars per hour during this period.

Hourly wage estimates of nonrestaurant food servers in the U.S. as of May 2021, by percentile distribution (in U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Hourly wage in U.S. dollars
10% of employees earned less than	10.07
25% of employees earned less than	11.52
Median hourly wage	13.81
75% of employees earned less than	15.23
90% of employees earned less than	18.49

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Release date

March 2022

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United States

Survey time period

as of May 2021

Supplementary notes

A percentile wage shows the percentage of workers in an occupation that earn less than a given wage and the percentage that earn more. The median wage is the 50th percentile wage estimate - 50 percent of workers earn less than the median and 50 percent of workers earn more than the median.
Nonrestaurant food servers serve food to patrons outside of a restaurant environment, such as in hotels, hospital rooms or cars. Excludes "Counter Attendants, Cafeteria, Food Concession, and Coffee Shop."
The data used is based on the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey which measures occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments, by industry. Employees are all part-time and full-time workers who are paid a wage or salary.

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