 For tipped workers, if tips plus $10 don't add up to at least $17.50 an hour as an average in a week, the employer is supposed to pay the difference. After Initiative 83 passed in November 2022, tipped wage is being phased out slowly until tipped workers are supposed to make minimum wage in 2027. It'll go up to $12 an hour next year, $14 as of July of 2026, and will be replaced with D.C. standard minimum wage as of July 1, 2023.