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    In a couple of your posts some of you mention how you have bookings and you actually get paid a minimum for that week from the club. I was wondering how you do this. Are there clubs out there that actually pay girls? Or is it just because you're traveling? Is it based on experience, or will they give a base pay to anyone? Will most of them do it, or is there just a select few? I know Tina said she did it in the Mid West, are there any other areas of the country that pay?

    I imagine that this has been discussed before, but I searched and couldn't find any concrete answers. I would like to travel this November with my boyfriend, but I'm not all that sure on what to do, exactly. If I just go from club to club, do I tell them that I'm traveling, or do I lie and tell them I'm moving there so I get hired?

    Any info from travelers would be good.

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    It depends on your needs. I am able to travel alone and return to CA every few months. I use the Internet and agents to get bookings. Melonie has made some helpful posts on the hazards of traveling to strip. I have had my trips complicated by weather, emergencies and incompetent agents. PM me for an agent I'd dying to flame. (Hint: she's listed on )
    Pure Talent books traveling dancers, also , and some clubs book direct. You do need to be assertive with agents.
    You'll need to call your boyfriend your "bouncer" or "bodyguard" and just don't mention him if he travels with you. He will have to pay for his own accomodations. He also may not be allowed on overseas trips.
    The best part is getting to go to nice, different places, and your world will grow in many senses.

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    In Vancouver you get a price per show. Depends who you are, your experience, how you look...anywhere from $30-$100/show, with most in the $40-60 range. 18-30 shows per week. You change clubs every week (most are in the Greater Vancouver area, sometimes have to travel to Whistler or Victoria, you can make better money if you're willing to travel through the boonies of BC's interior), on a 6-8 week rotation. Book an absolute minimum of 1 week in advance. The agency is www.strippernet.com

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    Yup as scarlett said - most of Canada is handled this way with the exception of Ontario and Quebec whereas unless you are a 'featured' entertainer, the dancing is all table/lap/vip whatever your terminology...you can get on schedule if you fit their bill and they pay up to 100$ a shift - but you dance for your money customer by customer, with stage rotation performances that dont require the full show aspects as would a featured performance. ALL clubs are full nudity - with alcohol.

    The rest of the country books primarily on a week to week basis - pay determined by looks ability costumes and resume...you get paid BY the show by weeks end usually cash, however many shows you get in multiplied by show price less agents commission. (average 15%) Most supply accomms but for a nominal charge - SOME clubs do not provide accoms at all thats your expense.

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    The only part of the country that has "paid bookings" in my experience is in these areas:

    Billings and Laurel Montana
    North and South Dakota
    Iowa (small towns)
    Rural Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Nebraska


    The reason for this is the clubs are in smaller towns (population 12,000-160,000 people) and the clubs want fresh faces each week. Most girls rebook the clubs they like every 4-5 weeks.

    Large metro areas don't need paid bookings. They have more girls than they need already.

    I stay booked several months in advance. Booking lead time is 4-7 weeks on average and I work back to back clubs in the area.

    You usually work mon-sat 5-1 or 2 and get paid at the end of your shift on sat $300-$500 for the week depending on the club and work with 4-6 girls.

    If you want to work 4 weeks in a row for example in November, around Labor Day I would go on strip club list.com check out the clubs in the areas I mentioned, call them around 5-6 find out the specifics and e-mail or mail them a photo, and once they get it line up the dates and do that with back to back clubs in towns about 4-8 hours apart by car.

    The advantage of this is that if you are booked the weeks of 11/1, 11/8, and 11/15 for example at 3 different clubs when you get to town on monday you just get a motel for the week and show up for work at the time you are supposed to start. You KNOW you have a job unlike going to any big city and having to club hop and audition or even get a license before you can work.

    And with only 4-6 girls working you don't have to worry about intense competition from other dancers hurting your earnings. If you are pretty and friendly and work the floor well you will stand out. If the club is slow that week and your pay is $400, if you only made $700 in the club that is $1100 for theweek. And if your room on a weekly rate is $200-$250 you still made a profit. Your range should be $1100-$2500 depending on the club, how hard you work the floor and ability to build and keep in touch with regulars. I exchange phone numbers with the guys who buy decent amounts of dances from me and many keep coming to see me even at a club 500 miles away from where I first met them when they are traveling.

    On the downside, you are just in these towns to work and Sunday is your day off so your "fun" times must be on Sundays if you are close to a big city, or after your 3-4 weeks of bookings are up.

    Traveling to big cities looking to work requires patience, and downtime, and you may have to fumble around with clubs that are saturated with dancers and nights of making little money until you find a club or two that the money is ok in, plus you may have to lie and give clubs a fake local address so they think you live in town and on bookings you don't have to do that.

    It takes a certain kind of person disciplined enough to work the road clubs. One who is focused on work and can work 6 days week after week just like a career. having a boyfriend with you is a plus if you are in a serious relationship and he is pulling with you as mine is.

    I have found that the big city grind is about the same everywhere and besides the 2 big cities I am able to pop in and work anytime, don't feel the money on a CONSISTENT level is any better than the small clubs where you don't have such intense competition.



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    WOW. That REALLY helps! Thank you so much!!! You've more or less answered all my questions. Now all I have to do is make sure me and my boyfriend can pull off traveling across country. I don't think I would want to go without him. Especially not if I was gone close to a month.

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