How tips reach my paycheck

Your tips are wages. When a guest leaves you a gratuity, it does not go into a side envelope — it flows onto your next paycheck through the same payroll run as your regular pay, with taxes withheld correctly.

Where a tip comes from:

• A guest leaves a tip on their on-property account (their room folio, cruise account, or venue tab) and it is attributed to you by name.
• A tip you were paid at the moment of service (a spa treatment you performed, a check you closed at the table).
• A share of a pooled tip or service charge, split across the team for a shift.

How it lands on your stub:

1. The tip is recorded to you the moment it is final — for an on-property account, that is at check-out (debark), after the guest has had every chance to adjust it.
2. It rides into the next payroll run and shows up as its own line on your paystub. A voluntary tip appears as "Tips." A mandatory service charge appears as "Service charge." They are separate lines because they are taxed differently — a tip is reported tip income, a service charge is regular wages.
3. You see it on your paystub in your personal pay area — your paystubs belong to you and follow you even if you leave the org.

If a tip was meant for you but was not attributed to anyone, a manager sees it in the tip review queue and assigns it — it is never quietly dropped and never paid to the wrong person.