• What is One Fair Wage?

    One Fair Wage is a national organization seeking to end all subminimum wages in the United States and increase the sustainability of wages and working conditions in the service sector. One Fair Wage policy would require all employers to pay the full minimum wage with fair, non-discriminatory tips on top, lifting millions of tipped and subminimum wage workers nationally out of poverty.

  • Waging Change

    Check out two new documentary films featuring our work - Waging Change, created by Peabody award-winning documentary filmmaker Abby Ginzburg, and The Great American Lie, created by First Partner of California Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

  • Elena the Essential

    In partnership with One Billion Rising / V-Day Coalition and Artist Paul Leibow, we created Elena the Essential Service Worker, a 24 ft. art statue appearing in multiple cities. She is Elena the Essential Voter, Worker, and American demanding fair pay, respect, and fair elections.

THE NEW YORK TIMES RECENTLY EXPOSED THE EXPLOITATIVE AND PREDATORY PRACTICE OF THE NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION, WHICH REQUIRES RESTAURANT WORKERS TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN WORK SAFETY TRAINING. THIS EGREGIOUS PRACTICE FUNDS “THE OTHER NRA’S” LOBBYING EFFORTS AGAINST WORKERS.

One Fair Wage’s membership includes nearly 300,000 restaurant and service workers and nearly 3,000 restaurant employers, all seeking to raise wages and working conditions in the service sector and end all subminimum wages in the United States.

  • Get Involved

    One Fair Wage is working to raise wages and end all subminimum wages in the US.

    If you’re a worker, join the fight and access resources and support! If you’re an employer, join our association of responsible restaurateurs and access resources to help you raise wages profitably! If you’re a consumer, support employers who are raising wages in your community.

    Get Involved

  • Sign the Petition

    Through our 25 by 250 Campaign, One Fair Wage is moving legislation and ballot measures in 25 states to raise wages and end subminimum wages for millions of workers – and mobilize millions to vote in the process – by the United States’ 250th Anniversary (2026).

    Sign the petition to show your support for One Fair Wage.

    Sign the Petition

  • Make a Contribution

    The success of our campaign depends on raising the funds necessary to win the fight for One Fair Wage.

    Nobody deserves to make a subminimum wage. Help us get rid of the two-tiered wage system and ensure that all workers are paid One Fair Wage. We can only do this with your help. Our success depends on you.

    Make a Contribution

  • I was working as expediter and as a server at a restaurant that had just opened before Covid-19 began. With the closing, they started doing take out and then finally limited outdoor seating. I was asked to come back but felt very uncomfortable as an immunocompromised person. I’m lucky enough that my management understood, however I am one of the 40% of people who do not qualify for unemployment and I have been struggling to get by. 

    Adesola

    Tipped Service Worker, PA

  • I am a bartender in Manhattan who discovered One Fair Wage during the initial lockdown due to COVID-19 in March of 2020. Since then, One Fair Wage has been the one beacon of hope I have had throughout this entire pandemic. As someone who has worked in the service industry for almost ten years, it is such a relief to know there is an organization like One Fair Wage fighting for the rights of restaurant workers across America.

    Natasha

    Bartender, NY

  • Thank you. It’s been a financial struggle for some time, so you have no idea how much of a relief your generosity is to me. Thank You again One Fair Wage for your support.

    Carlos

    Service Worker

One Fair Wage is a national organization seeking to raise wages and improve working conditions in the service sector, and end all subminimum wages in the United States. One Fair Wage organizes workers, employers, and consumers to campaign for federal, state and local policy to require all employers to pay a full, livable minimum wage with gratuities on top, lifting millions of tipped and subminimum wage workers out of poverty.