I added up my earnings on Friday & Saturday and was angry to see my club is taking 50% of my earnings (percentages from dances, house fee, and tips).
What goes back at the end of your night?
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I added up my earnings on Friday & Saturday and was angry to see my club is taking 50% of my earnings (percentages from dances, house fee, and tips).
What goes back at the end of your night?
$50 includes tip out and house fee. They also make $15 off every single or 2-4-1 dance I do, and $35 off every triple I sell.
So your club takes a percentage from dances, but you don't tip per dance?
I have to tip per dance, so I end up keeping $18 from every $40 dance, and a $20 house fee (and drink quota).
Yup, the only money they take is tipout, and from private dances, otherwise everything else is mine.
A single or 2-4-1 dance is $25, a triple is $60, so they take a good amt from it.
i think i have everyone beat, i pay between $10 and $30 depending on when i sign in and that's it.
eta - that doesn't include a tip for the dj (which is optional). we're not expected to tip managers or security.
It totally depends on the club. When I worked at Deja Vu before I learned how to upsell they would take almost 50%. Once I learned how to upsell they were barely taking 10%. The first club I worked at took 25%. Now most of the clubs that I work at take about 8% - 15%.
do you mean upsell as in demanding more per song?
My club takes $50 for rent before 9:30 pm each night. Tip out is usually minimum of $40 each time. ($20 to the DJ and $5 to each bouncer, there's usually 4). If you have a good night or anyone does special favors for you then the tipout is usually more. So I pay $90 - $120 to work each night.
They also take $10 for each two-for-one special we do.
Dances are $20 per song on the weekends, $10 during the week. No champagne room.
I still manage to make good money by hustling my ass off and maintaining good regulars, but it's easy to crash and burn on a slow night!
Demand is the wrong way of thinking. If the club allows upselling (most Deja Vu clubs do), then you start off your dance price menu at whatever the club dances start at (normally $20) for the least amount of entertainment - such as a table dance. A fully clothed lap dance might be $40, topless ($60). The prices just keep going up according to what is legal and within the clubs rules.
Good explanation Kyleah.
My club has very low house fes as that's the only way they can keep the girls in there right now! I'm supposed to pay $10 or 10% to the dj and that's pretty much it but I always throw the house Mom $3-5 (I don't use her stuff) and the bouncer who walks me out at night gets like $3-5.
After tipping out, I go home with 75% of what I made. I don't pay house fees though.
My club doesn't take a percentage of our dances but we do have a very high house fee of $120 per night (it doesn't matter if you come in at 1pm or 10pm). Plus tip out, which is not mandatory, but I always give the Dj $20 and the managers $10.
Usually that equates to 10-20% of my total earnings which isn't bad. I hate working at clubs that take money from your dances even if you up sell.
40 dollars tip out.
They are supposed to take a dollar for every 10 dollar table dance we do and 5 for every 30 private we do. But if they don't see you do it most of the girls don't pay it.
I've done like 500 dollars in 30 dollar dances and they only saw 2 of them so I handed them 10 dollars.
They get 100 for vip. The way our vip is, you can charge the guy(s) whatever you want, So if you charge a guy 400 you get 300.
I can't believe some people are taking home 90% of their earnings...
The most money I've ever made was $1,016. After tipouts and fees I went home with $505. It was so depressing!
I feel like this is just clubs in LA though because the other two I worked I only made more because I didn't tip out as much.
holy shit. that is an INSANE cut that the club is taking.
my house fee + tipout equates to about $50. i'm lucky though, they don't take anything out of my dances. i used to work at a club where the tipout/house fee was close to $80, and they took $5 from every dance. i'd still walk away with close to 80% every night though...
What is RIDICULOUS at my club is.. you pay the DJ 10% of what you EARN that night and a minimum of $20 even if you didn't make any money.. THE DJ!!!
So If I make 1,000 in the books I'm paying the DJ 100 dollars... for doing what??? On top of that they take 40% of what I do in dances. Basically they're taking 50% from me when all added up. :(
Our DJ makes a shit load of money when it comes to good nights.. It pained me when I had to pay the DJ 200 dollars.. I mean.. that's A LOT of money for you playing music.. and I probably would have only went on stage 2 times the whole night because we have so many girls..
50 dollars a SONG?! wow our lap dances aren't even 50 a song.. haha
That used to burn me up, that the DJs often made more than most of the dancers! >:( 20 girls each forking over $20, that's $400 a night! Too many nights most of the girls walked with half that much. I think it's disgusting that the club forces us to pay the DJs in the first place. The club is the employer, they should be paying the staff adequately.
My current club has a jukebox except for on weekend nights, and it works out just fine. Better actually; we get to hear exactly what we want, and for free. ;)
I do travel bookings in clubs that offer shift pay, but they still take dance cuts and usually a "stage fee", plus minimum tipouts for bouncers and DJs.
At the club I worked last week, they pay $350 at the end of the week for a 6 night booking. But they charge $30-40 per night for stage fee, plus 20% of our dance prices, plus we have to pay minimum $15 each to the bouncer and DJ (plus minimum $10 for the 2nd bouncer who works weekends).
On a nightly basis, I pay around 25% of my earnings, but I get some of that back at the end of the week so I'd estimate it works out to around 20-22% at the end of the week.
This is just one example. All the clubs I work use a silly, overly complicated system like this. I'd prefer they just lose the shift pay and let me work for straight earnings with no dance cuts or fees. Of course they won't do that, because they make money off me even though they "pay" me per shift. ha
I work in Sydney Australia and its the same. Crazy! We lose 30% from private dances that does not show up on our invoice so it's not tax deductible. Then we lose another 10% from all tipping dollars and shows. Then another 10% for GST. Then we get charged a $5 tip for the entertainment coordinator and $15 admin fee to reception. A $2 insurance levy. And its all done through a tax system so we have to report everything to the tax department. So essentially that leaves us with 20% - 30% profit! Crazy eh? Unfortunately all the Sydney clubs do the same. Only saving grace is Sydney guys tend to spend more $$ in my experience. Its not uncommon for guys to book you for 2hours which costs them $720...too bad the dancer ends up with less than $350 BEFORE tax...
I feel sick just reading what I've wrote :(
In my club in the UK you pay your house fee depending on what night it is-
Mon 30
Tues 40
Weds 60
Thurs 80
Fri 60
Sat 40
We don't have to tip anyone unless there is a security guy there to take the smokers out the back in which case you give him 3, if he's not there a bouncer will take us on the hour.
The club pays the DJ, but if you don't want to go on main stage you can pay him 20 for the night or 10 to put you on the smaller bar stage.
If the customers run out of cash or want to pay on a card a 20 dance will cost them 24 and when I cash in the 'chip' I get 18.
The club takes a bigger % from 'sit downs'/VIP's (not that we are doing many right now!)
SR: 3AM shift: $50, plus DJ tip (normally $20) the rest is yours to keep.
Nights: $80, plus DJ tip.
Days: $35 M-Th, $45 Fr-Sat, plus DJ tip.
"Baby club" (that sorry, I won't name, it's a little hole in the wall off the Strip): $35 house, $20 DJ tip, the rest yours to keep.
I agree. My DJ was pissed at at me a few Fridays ago because I only tipped him like $10. Well I went home with $140 and he got tipped $180 by ONE girl who did like 90 dances or something. He made more money in ONE tip than I did in the WHOLE night!
Granted there is a lot of working involved in being a DJ, but they bank. You have to tip a minimum of a dollar a dance at my club and we do on average 150 dances a night. Most girls that want to actually be put on stage and not have their lights and music fucked up tip twice that, so that's $300 in tips alone. That is insane, I do not make that most nights and I'm hustling my ass of in the club, not sitting back at the DJ booth.
the club i used to work at took approximately 33% of my nightly earnings on average
In the UK spearmint rhino take 40%
$35-$60 flat rate, depending on when you get there. Obviously the later you arrive, the more you pay. That includes DJ and manger tips, housefee and the bouncers. Everything you make is yours :)