Hey all,
This is my first post in this sub. I am looking for a dataset that I would’ve assumed would be easy to find but I’m having no luck 🙁 As the US politics has been a recent fixation for me, a small project I would like to start involves looking at currently tipped occupations (ie waiters, cashiers, hair salons etc) and comparing the income that comes from tips currently to what we will observe in the future due to both parties (Dem and Rep) committing to a tax free tip policy. So far the closest dataset I have found is this from the US bureau of labor stats however it only details their gross pay (I’m assuming this means pre tax) and includes the tips. This doesn’t help much because as a part of this project I would like to answer the questions;
(i) Will these occupations force more tips onto consumers due to the policy change?
(ii) Will other occupations that don’t currently get tipped begin to take tips in order to get more tax free income?
I unfortunately don’t see how I can answer these questions if the tips are included and the numbers are pre tax 🙁
Any help or suggestions is welcome and appreciated.
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