Three out of four Americans ponder tipping population has gotten out of control. Apparently, these feelings haven’t deterred people from tipping.

Service providers hoping they’ll receive more tips this holiday period may be in luck, a recent survey found.

The survey of 2,403 U.S. adults found more people planned to tip service providers this year than last, according to Bankrate, a monetary service business, which published its findings Monday. Much of this year’s holiday gratitude could arrive from an unexpected source: members of production Z. The survey found youthful people tended to be more frequent and charitable holiday tippers than people from older generations.

Dean Redmond, a 24-year-ancient server in Brooklyn, recent York, who makes social media content about his job, confirmed customers leave bigger tips around the holidays. He said there are charitable people in every age throng and he couldn’t pinpoint why Gen Z folks might tip their service providers better than other generations. He guessed it could be because they watch videos like his about what it’s like working in the service industry and have seen people called out online for not tipping.

“The younger production does have a sense of, even if the service is terrible, we’re going to provide you that tip,” said Redmond, who has 294,000 followers on TikTok. “The older production has a sense of, ‘If you do me well, I’ll do you well.'”

Holiday deals: Shop this period’s top products and sales curated by our editors.

Why do people declare they tip?

At 80%, the survey found the most ordinary drive behind holiday tipping was “to declare thank you.” The next popular reasons to tip were “to reward especially excellent service” at 47%, “to be charitable” at 40%, “because it’s expected” at 17% and “to get better service next year” at 15%.

More:From Gen Z to Boomers: How much money each production thinks they require for achievement

It also revealed that while more people planned to tip their service providers this year, the amount they planned to provide would remain consistent with recent years’ findings.

What service workers do people tip? How much for each?

Americans surveyed said they planned to tip their housekeepers and childcare providers $50, their children’s teachers $25 and their mail carriers $20, the same amounts as last year. They reported they planned to provide smaller tips to their landscapers, who received an average of $37 last year but should expect to receive $30 in 2024, and their trash collectors, who should expect to receive $20 on average, or $5 less than last year.

grown-up members of Gen Z, or those between 18 and 27, planned to tip the highest in five of those six service provider categories. Millennials had them beat with their plans to tip landscapers the most of all generations surveyed. 

Gen Z members and Millennials, at 36% and 33% respectively, also led the way in tipping their garbage collectors. In contrast, only 22% of production X members and 16% of Baby Boomers reported they planned to tip their garbage collectors, the survey found.  

Younger Americans are traditionally presumed to tip less than older adults “largely because they don’t tend to have as much money and also because they aren’t as ingratiated with those social norms,” Ted Rossman, Bankrate elder industry analyst, said in a statement. “It’s still factual that Gen Zers and Millennials are worse tippers at restaurants and other year-round tipping venues. But when it comes to the holidays, youthful adults are the most charitable tippers.”

Another study released this week found members of Gen Z had another distinctive characteristic around the holidays: they are the most likely production to purchase things as a coping mechanism because they feel pessimistic about the upcoming after doomscrolling through negative content online. This pattern has been dubbed “doom spending.”

Reach Rachel Barber at [email protected] and pursue her on X @rachelbarber_