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What servers make
Typical
$35,230
Part time or a slow house
$18,100
Top tenth: fine dining and busy city rooms
$64,720
The national median is $35,230 a year, and the bottom tenth are near $18,100. Read that low figure carefully: full-time all-year serving is not the norm, so a lot of the bottom of this range is people working part time, seasonally or a few shifts a week. The house you work in matters more than anything else you control.