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    Default How Much Are Your House Fees/Tip Outs? (Poll)

    How much is your House Fee? How much do all of your other (mandatory) tip-outs equal out to?

    Do you keep all of your lapdance money or does the club take a portion?

    My tip out is $60 if I get there between 6pm and 8:00pm and go up to $120 if I arrive between 8:00pm and 8:30 (after that we're "late" the manager has to 'decide' if we can work..

    Mandatory minimum of $5.00 each to the hair and to make-up (more if they "do anything" to us), $10.00 to the housemom.. $20.00 to the DJ.

    MINIMUM of 15% to the host if we do VIP..

    I work in NYC..

    What kind of fee's do you pay?
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    Default Re: How Much Are Your House Fees/Tip Outs? (Poll)

    ^^ Oh, and our lapdances are $20.00 (topless) and we keep all of it. Or we can go in a little curtained off booth, and do 3 dances for $120 (the club takes $30, we take $90).
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    £80 house fee
    £15 tip out
    Club takes 20% up to 300 and 25% anything over 300
    and £25 for every hour you are sat in the VIP with a customer

    a dance is £20 and a VIP room is £300 an hour....

    haah jesus... i never actually worked it out until now... i pay £500 a week just to work there! that sounds like sooooo much money when you're absolutely broke... i don't know how i manage it at the moment :/

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    mine all depend on what i make, so i can't really say. it comes out to about 20% though (when everyone is tipped out). that 20% is from the -entire- total, including dances, conversation-tips, stage-tips, etc.

    so if i make 200, i usually walk with about 160
    300 means i leave with 240
    400 means i leave with 320
    500 means i leave with 400

    etc...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pretty_Penny View Post
    mine all depend on what i make, so i can't really say. it comes out to about 20% though (when everyone is tipped out). that 20% is from the -entire- total, including dances, conversation-tips, stage-tips, etc.

    so if i make 200, i usually walk with about 160
    300 means i leave with 240
    400 means i leave with 320
    500 means i leave with 400

    etc...
    I've always been curious about this kind of work environment.. How does the club keep track of how much you make? Also, what area do you live in?
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    Default Re: How Much Are Your House Fees/Tip Outs? (Poll)

    I just started working at Deja Vu club in California, and they do things a bit differently. There is no house fee, but they take 40% of all private dances (laps are $20, there's a 3 dance minimum room that starts at $60, and half hour rooms at $150 per half hour).

    Because of the 40% thing, there are no stage fees. But we get to keep all stage tips and gratuities given to us from customers. So I have realized that this can end up working in a dancer's favor at times, or really suck if it's a very slow night. Tip outs aren't mandatory.. but by unwritten law they kind of are. Usually just the door guy and dj, we don't have too many bouncers working because there's cameras everywhere.

    Club keeps track of what we make because customers put their money into a machine for dances. The club then pays us out at the end of the night. Any money a customer wants to tip us they just hand over and it doesn't go in the machines.

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    At my club House is $20-$40 depending on when you get there, managers tipout is $10 and $5-$10 to the DJ. If you're there over shift change at 6pm (which I usually always am) you have to pay another $10 to the new manager and another $5-$10 to the new DJ.

    On the plus side, dances are $30/2-4-$40 and we keep all of it. CR is $600-$700 and the club gets half, and we don't have fines for anything like skipping stage etc.

    Mostly I work a 7ish hour shift and pay $55ish for it


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    Default Re: How Much Are Your House Fees/Tip Outs? (Poll)

    Quote Originally Posted by hl1986 View Post
    I've always been curious about this kind of work environment.. How does the club keep track of how much you make? Also, what city/state do you live in?
    i work in tampa, florida. they count dances and mark down VIPs... they don't "really" know how much you're getting tipped, but they get a general idea. also, tip outs are not mandatory, just heavily suggested. house fee is mandatory but only after 9pm (so, i never have to pay it).

    however, if you don't tip out the "suggested" % to the people you're "asked" to, you'll fall out of favor pretty quick. IOW you are much more likely to get fired for stupid shit and much less likely to get away with coming in late, not following dress code, etc...

    also, if there's "too many girls" the ones who never tip out are always the ones asked to leave.

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    I have to pay $10-$40 housefees depending on the time I am ready and on the floor and tipout for the housemom and dj are 10% each

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    I have a house fee of 25... I usually go in around 11pm and pay that amount.. i think it goes up after 11..
    the dj is min of $10.. but I always give him 20 now... the housemom is min of 5... and the bouncers are 10-15 min depending on how many bouncers are there that night.

    oo.. and lap dances are 25.. house gets 5. and i keep 20

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    there's no house fee where i work. money is instead taken out of lapdances. i keep 18 out of thirty dollars for a lapdance, or sixty percent. the door girl gets two, the club gets ten. each and every lapdance. other than that, i keep everything, except at the end of the night i tip 2 dollars to the cook, and either ten bucks or ten percent of what i make to the dj.

    so if i do five lapdances, let's say, and also make a hundred dollars in stage tips, the total amount of money i would have earned is $250. of that, the club and door girl get $60, leaving me with $190, then i would tip the dj between $15 and $20, leaving me with around $170.

    as a result of this, i don't really hustle lapdances that hard and instead prefer to make most of my money on stage.
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    I can't really answer because it varies. We don't have a house fee per say, but they take $$ off of our dances.

    LD $30, $10 to house $2 tip to door girl
    20 minute LD $130, $20 to house $10 tip to door girl
    topless LD $60 $20 to house, $4 tip to door girl
    topless 20 minute LD $260, $40 to house $20 tip to door girl

    So if I don't do any dances I pay nothing, if I do it depends on what the dances is and how many I do.

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    The house fees are $40 if you get there from 7pm-8pm and they go up $10 an hour every hour. he DJ gets a 10% tip-out, the floor guy gets $5, and the door guy gets $5. You give the house $5 from every $30 lap dance. The VIP room is $250 minimum for the 1/2 hour and the club gets $50, and $375 minimum for an hour and the club gets $75. But these are minimums--you can charge more if you want! You are required to work a 6 hour shift, and if you want to leave early, it costs you $150.

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    No house fees or mandatory tipout, but the club takes 50-60% of the price the customer pays for the lapdance or VIP room. We keep all of our tips though.

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    I work at two different clubs. Housefee is $65 at one and $45-$50 at the other. Tipout to the DJ goes by what we make. Nothing if it was a bad night, $5 and up on better nights. $20 lapdances (we get to that), $100 in VIP when its 3/$100. If the customer doesn't tip the host $20 I do it myself. $200 for half an hour in VIP; $300 for half an hour in the sky box and $400 for an hour. The customer generally takes care of the host for that by tipping anywhere from $20 to $100.

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    I work 3 shifts a week... my tip outs are the following:

    Sunday, on stage by 6pm, tipout $55

    Tuesday and Thursday, on stage for 7pm, tipout $70

    We are not expected to tip out bouncers, DJ or house mom, our house fee is portioned out to each.

    And when I say on stage by a certain time I mean I arrive at work at like 5pm to do my hair and makeup for a 6pm shift. This is in Mass, right outside of Boston. Our lap dances are cheapest in the state at $20 each. We keep that. Chapagnes are $140 for every 15 min. Club makes $40, girls keeps $100 (so for a half hour club gets $80, girl gets $200)

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    Until recently, I paid no housefee (but $20 if youre late), $20 min to dj. LDs were $20--the club kept $5.

    The club was in queens, new york.

    I hate hate hate hate hate housefees and will use every chance not to pay them. I have negotiated my way out of paying on many occasions. And I think housemoms are complete waste of oxygen and money; I bring my own stuff and if i wanted to gossip, i could do it with the other dancers, lol.

    Call me stingy.

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    Ours is $10 or 10% if you make over $100. Ours is just considered a tip out though. The money from tip out goes part to the dj, part to the door guy, part to the lot man (on fridays and saturdays) and part to our big boss. Usually the DJ and big boss know when someone isn't tipping out right. I like the flat house fees better but when I've only made $100 and $45 of it has to go to house I'm not too happy.

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    Our tip outs vary by weekday or weekend. Sunday thru Thursday its $55 to the house and then what every you want to the DJ, Bouncer and Bartenders. On Friday and Saturday house is $100, and what every you want to the DJ, Bouncer and Bartenders, but there is more staff to tip. Where my club gets you is fees. They are easily avoidable but I see girls get them ALL the time. For example, for every half hour you are late from your scheduled time, you have to pay $20. All call offs are 85 then 100, then 150, unless you have a doctors note.(note: you make your own schedual) If your late to stage $20. If you play rap music, the song is replaced and your fined $20. It all seems really bad, but I've worked there for 6 months and never gotten fined. Laps are always full nude, $20 each, we keep it all. We don't have champagine rooms or VIP. I love my club
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    Does anyone know what house fees are in Philadelphia?And how long are the shifts? I was also curious about what cities have the highest house fees?

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    $20 flat rate. No more no less.


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    $20 to house (unless it's a really really slow night--then they lower it)
    $20 flat to DJ
    $5 of every lap dance to the house
    $1 of every lap dance we do to the VIP host (which doesn't sound like much, but it can add up to a lot if you do 30 dances. I hate this--it seems to punish the hustlers)
    And we get $125 of every $200 CR we do.

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    $ 15 house fee (flat fee no matter when you work)
    $ 5 min. to the DJ (I normally tip 10 to 20 depending on my $)
    $ 5 min. to the VIP guy (I normally tip 10 to 20 depending on my $)
    $ 4 flat fee to house mom
    $ 5 to the bouncer who walks you to your car

    LD's are $22, we keep $15, $7 to the house.
    Champagne's are $135 for a 1/2 hr. $ 70 to us, $ 65 to the house. (rip off)

    They do have shift pay on Saturday nights. We open at 6pm and the first 5 girls who show up ready to work get $ 50 bucks cash (have to stay until 2 am.) Its so we have girls ready in case there are guys who show up early. I usually get there around 5:15 to make sure I get shift pay. Helps out a lot especially now!

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    $130 and I get to keep the rest. I tip $20 to the DJ and $5 each to the bartender and doorman.




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    Over $100. $95 just to walk in the door, and then vip host if I get a vip.

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