![]() ![]() If you are working at a small, dive bar in a 5,000 person town in Nebraska, you will likely make considerably less. This is because you are getting a gratuity (tip) percentage on tabs that are very high. If you are working 6 nights a week, at a busy, expensive restaurant in Manhattan, New York, you could have potential to make $65,000 to $95,000 in a year. It’s best to think of it like this: The bigger the city you work in, and the higher the level of the establishment that employs you the more money you will make (usually – not always). It varies for many reasons: the type of restaurant/bar/lounge, the clientele, the tipping standards of that specific area, and the wealth of the city itself are some of the reasons a bartender’s salary varies.īartending is not a salaried position in which it is easy to predict or assign a projected salary to a given area of the country. Here is the best way to explain a bartender’s salary: IT WIDELY VARIES. I could hit you with salary statistics from all over the country, state by state, but I want to keep this article simple. Even though they are supposed to, many bartenders do not claim all of their cash tips on their taxes. In reality, bartenders do make more, because, they work on tips. This is, of course, as reported to the IRS by bartenders themselves. ![]() According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the average bartender salary in 2013, was $21,770. Let’s take a look at bartending, in the US, on average. In these cities, a bartender can make serious cash at a nightclub or a fine dinning restaurant. In reality, the only real places to make a large amount of money bartending, in the US, would be Las Vegas, New York, LA (maybe) and Chicago (maybe). If you want a chance to make a large amount of money you will need to bartend in a big city. I have had years in which I have made $100,000+. As I have mentioned in previous articles, bartending can be very lucrative. ![]()
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