Sure if you are only looking at the analogy as the person paying and not how the individual for their income which was the intent and the person paying secondary. Merely called it out so it was not misleading or lacking that bit. Both sales people AND servers have much of their pay based on sale of something. So yes, it’s arbitrary.
Edit: I’ll add one extra bit of context here neither the sales person nor the wait staff know how much they will make that week other than the minimum for the hours worked assuming they made zero commissions or sales. Every single dollar beyond that is not guaranteed. In the eyes of the IRS or other gov orgs dealing with wages, it only matters that they are compensated for their time by the end of the pay period. This is why it is arbitrary. That minimum could be minimum wage or your agreed base pay in the contract if there is one.
No, it’s really not arbitrary. That’s how commission works, it’s paid to you by your employer, not the customer directly.
It’s not a good analogy.
Sure if you are only looking at the analogy as the person paying and not how the individual for their income which was the intent and the person paying secondary. Merely called it out so it was not misleading or lacking that bit. Both sales people AND servers have much of their pay based on sale of something. So yes, it’s arbitrary.
Edit: I’ll add one extra bit of context here neither the sales person nor the wait staff know how much they will make that week other than the minimum for the hours worked assuming they made zero commissions or sales. Every single dollar beyond that is not guaranteed. In the eyes of the IRS or other gov orgs dealing with wages, it only matters that they are compensated for their time by the end of the pay period. This is why it is arbitrary. That minimum could be minimum wage or your agreed base pay in the contract if there is one.