They make minimum wage, if you make more than minimum with tips you make $3 or whatever plus your tips, if you don't get any tips your employer covers the difference.
Because if it's just local, you can configure the static IP directly on the server/VM/whatever and bypass the router's DHCP entirely. Just make sure to assign it an IP that's outside of the range the router will assign and you'll be golden.
I had no idea I could do that but totally makes sense, thanks!
Um, yeah it would...