Equal pay does not exist in an economy where millions of women are paid $2.13 an hour.

Tipped restaurant workers—who are overwhelmingly women, and disproportionately Black women—face chronically low wages, sexual harassment, and unstable incomes. To recognize the wage and income disparity Black women face in the industry, this report adds to the growing body of evidence demonstrating both the economic hardships Black women specifically face in the industry and that the subminimum wage for tipped workers, a vestige of slavery, keeps wages low for the vast majority of all tipped restaurant workers.