How much of a restaurant worker's income comes from tips?

Restaurant workers are earning an increasingly large share of their income in tips. Nationally, the average tip on a restaurant transaction is 15.4% and the average restaurant worker earns nearly 23% of their income in tips.

Source: Square Payroll Index as of September 2024. Square sampled more than 200,000 paystubs from restaurant workers using Square Payroll and estimated the average tip on a restaurant check from credit card transactions on Square's platform.Get the dataEmbed Download image