Tips Belong to the Worker
W.S. 27-4-507 — tips are the employee's own, and agreed pay and benefits are owed
Tips and gratuities an employee receives are the employee's sole property, and none of them is payable to the employer or anyone else.
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- An employer may not pay less than a contract or collective bargaining agreement provides, and neither one may set pay below what a Wyoming statute requires.
- An employer that agreed to pay into a health or welfare fund, pension, vacation plan or apprenticeship program may not willfully, or to defraud, fail to make those payments.
Sources for this section (1)
- W.S. 27-4-507 — Tips and gratuities; unlawful to pay lower wage than that agreed upon; unlawful to fraudulently fail to pay fringe benefits agreed upon
Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of October 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Wyoming attorney.