Nevada is one of seven states without a sub-minimum wage option for tipped workers. Silver State workers earn at least $12 per hour, while other states allow employees to pay their workers as low as $2.13 hourly if they earn tips on the job.

For many, their earnings and the tax credits they qualify for result in more tax returns than tax bills, according to Andrew Woods, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at UNLV, who spoke in a previous Review-Journal report.

Woods had also brought up concerns the policy would discourage employers from paying fair wages as well as result in people giving less tips.

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