Anybody profiting = or > $500 dancing per club shift after tips and fees (consistently)?
Anybody profiting = or > $500 dancing per club shift after tips and fees (consistently)?




Just because one stripper is making more than $500 a shift doesn't mean another girl is going to be able to reproduce the same results. Even if she works in the same club on the same shifts and is equally attractive, sometimes there is just no rhyme or reason as to why a dancer makes more money than another dancer. I've made bank in dive bars and I've gone home in the negative in upscale gentleman's clubs and vice versa.
This week may be really good, next week may be really slow. I may have good timing today and land a whale, then tomorrow I may have terrible timing and the customers are never quite ready to buy dances when I'm offering.
I've quit trying to figure out the "magic formula" for consistently high earnings. Work hard and do the best you can. That is pretty much where your abilities to increase your earnings begin and end.





And this is exactly why I don't post in threads like this or" what's your worst ,average, best night. because I'm not the norm. If I put what a bad night to me on this sight most girls would want to kill me. Like I've always said some girls just don't have the potential to be 1000 girls no matter where they flock....
I never made less than $800 a night at the dive that I started at. I would go up to every single soul in that place, no one was safe from my hustle. I made it a point to talk to everyone at least once, and I was pushy as fuck. I was horrible on stage and I was always fucked up on something. "Wanna dance?" Was my mantra.. There's my secret to success...ha..
I have to agree- either you have IT (which includes the capacity to learn and adjust) or you don't. I usually make double or triple what other girls in my club are pulling in, even if they are more in shape then me, prettier, better dancers, or more aggressive hustlers. They only thing I've noticed is you have to actually show up if you want to make money. Even going home with a $200 in five hours is $40/hr. Of course it's part of the industry to get all "Showgirls" on everyone's ass and want to compete to the death... don't leave tacks on the stage please.




There's also the notion that earning potential varies greatly from city to city and club to club. Making $500 and doing it clean is a REALLY awesome night in some places, whereas it's chump change in others.





^ Hear hear, making $500 clean here can be a BITCH.
"People jack off with the left hand and point with the right."
"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."





I've had long strings of doing it but I worked LONG shifts in the boonies and had to abandon my regular life for 2-4 days at a time ( plus recovery time ). It was never perfect either . I'd have a solid few months and then occasionally things would stall a bit .





^ it's crazy coz some nights I'll show up at 11pm when we close at 1:30 & manage to walk w/ $600 :p I love the evil jealousy stares I get from the other girls that have been there ALL night bc they look at me & wonder wtf? How did she walk in here & get 2 champange rooms? My secret is usually that I'd prefer to get there later so I'm less burnt out when the spenders actually get there. Most of the girls at my club are total newbies & don't know any better so they show up early & sit there bored all night until the money walks thru the door then they're usually irritated & give up, which gives me more power![]()
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It's hard here too, without a large stable of regulars. And that's not even much of a guarantee.
It's also a club issue. At my old clubs, it got to a point where it was hard to make $100 clean, due to customer quality, a large number of dancers and a high percentage of those dancers giving $10 blowjobs. Things are squeaky clean at my new club but there's a small customer base, because we aren't really advertising that we're even open yet but we attract the big spenders, so it's a lot easier. It'll be even better when we're officially open, advertising and increase our customer base.
On the positive side, the cost of living is ridiculously low and I live pretty frugally anyway, so making $500+ a night isn't necessary to start building some serious savings.





^ Yup! That's the tradeoff I guess, dirt cheap living. I can be very comfortable on 7 or 8 shifts a month, as long as they're decent, and that's with my 1000 lb. beast stuffing his face with hay.
I would honestly HATE to live in NYC or somewhere with a high cost of living. I can't imagine the pressure of *needing* to make $500+ every night without fail. Having to work 3 shifts just to pay your rent? Nooooo thank you.
"People jack off with the left hand and point with the right."
"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."




I've left clubs being in the hole. And I've left clubs with thousands. I've also worked on and off since the mid 90s. Worked in tons of states and all different kinds of clubs. Many factors come into play when it comes to the amount of money you make. It depends on the year, area, club, management, dancers, customers,etc. It is really hard to Gage your salaries against other dancers salaries.








So OP the point is don't pay attention to anyone's numbers. There's so many factors that go into how much money everyone makes. I've seen someone else post that it's better to focus on your income weekly rather than daily. Recently I worked only like 3 hours at my club on a Thursday and made double what I made on a longer Friday shift the next night. Also recently I was constantly making high numbers every shift and all of a sudden for one week I was making practically nothing. Stripping is unpredictable but that's the price we pay for all the other perks.
(Plus this is a forum where we're all anonymous.. some girls may say they constantly bank every night they work and that may or may not be true)




^ This. The concept of "banking" doesn't involve a set number per day/ week that applies across the board for all dancers everywhere. It's just not possible. When a new dancer would ask me about money, I'd ask if she was happy with what she made and if she felt she could support herself based on what she was earning. In the end, that's what matters. It doesn't matter what I make, what the top girls in the club make or where anybody falls in the club heirarchy of money. We all have unique lives. I don't pay her bills, nor do the top girls and club status doesn't get anybody anywhere in real life. My landlord doesn't give a fuck that I'm in the top 5% or whatever at my club if that fact isn't accompanied by my rent check.
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