Trying to figure out whom to tip, and by how much, is as much part of a New Yorker’s seasonal planning as picking a tree or having Chinese food on Christmas Day
. “City sidewalks, busy sidewalks | Dressed in holiday style,” he croons. “Strings of street lights | Even stop lights blink a bright red and green | As the shoppers rush home with their treasure.” All that’s missing is a lyric about holiday tipping. In the Big Apple, it is not only Father Christmas who is concerned about lists. Many New Yorkers make “tipping lists”—and check them twice.
Tips are given in gratitude for services rendered; if not a formal requirement, in America they are expected. In the festive period it is customary to give a dog-walker the equivalent of a week’s pay. A nanny should get one to two weeks’ worth. Food-delivery workers 20-25% per order. Streeteasy, a property-listing site, suggests tipping FedEx or UPS couriers $20.
Among doormen, at least, cash remains king. Every doorman your correspondent interviewed says that while cookies or poinsettia potted plants are all very well, they always hope for an accompanying envelope of cash. One, manning the entrance of a swanky building on Park Avenue, says that in 2021 festive tips made up a tenth of his annual income.
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