How much does a bartender get tipped out?

Question

And also, when getting tipped out from a couple waitresses at the end of the night, how much would the bartender take home on average? Lets say from a comedy club.

Answer 1

Typically a server will tip the bartender out 10% of the tips they made throughout the night, that's a common standard.  

Different places go by different ways of doing this though.  I've worked in bars where the servers have to tip you out 2% of their sales total (House of Blues New Orleans).  They have to keep a log of it for the manager to check too.

The place I'm working at now in Pittsburgh is odd, it's a very busy restaurant, but the servers aren't allowed to tip the bartender out.  :(

The owner believes that they should hang on to the 'little' money that they make, but I think they do a little better than she may know.

She does pay the bartenders $7.15 an hour to compensate for this, if this wasn't the case, I'd be ticked.

I've never worked a comedy club, but on average a bartender can expect to make between $400-$700 a week, working 5 nights per week.   This fluctuates a lot.  I've had days on Bourbon Street where I didn't make $40, and nights at H.O.B. where I reeled in over $700 in one 5 hour shift. i.e. Sammy Hagar concert, or Richard Cheese.

Hope your club is a busy one!

Answer 2

It depends heavily on the amount of people drinking. My bar we divided up all the tips evenly between all the waitresses and bar tenders,but some bars and comedy clubs create a percentage of profits according to how hard each server has to work.

Answer 3

This answer depends on how much the customers are tipping that night.  If they are a bunch of cheap bast*rds do not expect much.

The place I worked at the tips was split evenly among the workers that night

Answer 4

The way it worked with me when I was bartending was keeping the tips and splitting them evenly if there was another bartender working with me.  10% of the total tips go to the barback, and bartender got 15% of server tips.  How much a bartender takes home every night varies.