CINCINNATI — Cincinnati servers and bartenders are overwhelmingly against possible changes to Ohio's tipping system, according to a new survey from the Ohio Restaurant & Hospitality Alliance. The survey comes as multiple initiatives in Ohio seek to eliminate the state's tipped wage and work toward a goal of a $15 per hour minimum wage for all. Raise the Wage Ohio , a ballot initiative, wants to raise minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2026, saying more than 1 million Ohioans would benefit from the increase, according to the ballot initiative's website.
According to the proposed ballot measure, minimum wage would raise to $12.75 from its current $10.45 beginning Jan.
1, 2025, and it would then go up to $15 beginning Jan. 1, 2026. Currently, Ohio's tipped minimum wage is $5.
25. This ballot initiative would eliminate the tipped minimum wage altogether, rolling it up under the overall state minimum wage. "The basic necessities that will be covered by $15 an hour minimum wage just include very basic things like food, housing, transportation, .
.. child care, health care, " Mariah Ross, the executive director of One Fair Wage, which is behind Raise the Wage Ohio, said in an Ohio Capital Journal report.
"It's very basic things." Ohio Democratic lawmakers also introduced a bill in September 2023 that would get rid of Ohio's tipped wage. Senate Bill 146 , which was introduced by Senators Kent Smith, D-Euclid and Hearcel Craig, D-Columbus, would eliminate the different between tipped and.
