District of Columbia Reduces Future Tipped Minimum Wage Increases

The District of Columbia is partially repealing its tipped minimum wage law, under a section of Act 26-148, the city’s latest budget bill.

The city’s original tipped minimum wage law was enacted through a 2022 ballot initiative approved by voters. The initiative was intended to increase the tipped minimum wage $2 annually until it equaled the nontipped minimum wage rate effective July 1, 2027.

The tipped minimum wage increase to $12 from $10 was scheduled to occur on July 1, 2025, but the District postponed it to Oct. 1 and then Act 26-148 prevented the increase from ever ...