Restaurant owners and advocates are considering lobbying the D.C. Council for legislative changes that could help offset the costs of phasing out the tipped wage.

The money will come from a tax increase on wealthy households the D.C. Council approved last year.

A city task force wants more than $50 million to be given to child care workers this year as the first step in increasing their pay in the long term.

Many employees say that their overall wages decreased, even though management coupled the elimination of tips with an hourly pay increase.

Some 5,000 people, many of whom make the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour, will see their wages increase to $12.75 by 2020.

As with so much else in the nation’s capital, the gains since the recession ended haven’t been spread equally.

The city has seen a shift in the past few years, as low-wage workers move out and high-wage workers make up a higher share of the population.

Worker with only a high school education made $2 more in 1980 than they did in 2014, when adjusting for inflation. Meanwhile, Washingtonians with a college degree made $4.50 more on average in 2014 than they did in 1980

The average wage in D.C. was $85,846 in 2014, an increase of 1.7 percent from the year before.

Unless you make $27 an hour, affording the rent on a two-bedroom place in D.C. will take long hours at work.