One fair wage states had less poverty for all tipped industry workers, with women seeing the biggest reduction in poverty rates

Poverty rate of tipped and nontipped workers, by sex and state tipped minimum wage level

"Low" states use the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 per hour.
"Mid" states have a tipped minimum wage higher than $2.13 per hour but less than the prevailing regular minimum wage.
One fair wage states have eliminated the subminimum wage entirely.
Source: Author's calculations based on 2016–2020 data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) in Sarah Flood and others, "Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Current Population Survey Data for Social, Economic, and Health Research: Version 8.0 (dataset)" (Minneapolis: Minnesota Population Center, 2020), available at https://cps.ipums.org/cps/.