ALBANY (AP) - Servers, busboys and hotel housekeepers in New York could soon get a raise, though not as big as labor advocates want.

State law allows servers and other tipped workers to make less than the state’s minimum wage of $8.75 an hour as long as their tips make up the difference. For servers, the base wage is $5. For other tipped workers, it is $5.65.

On Thursday, the State Wage Board considered the so-called tipping wage in its plans to recommend a figure to the state labor commissioner, who will make the final decision.

The three-member board discussed, but did not approve, a recommendation to raise the wage to the state’s minimum. Instead, the board decided to consider at the next meeting a recommendation to raise the tipping wage to $7 an hour.

Labor advocates want the board to eliminate the tipping wage altogether and require tipped workers to be paid the standard minimum wage before tips. But business groups warn that significant increases in the cost of labor will hurt businesses.