Yes they do ... but this does not mean that they deserve to have their weekly paycheck 'subsidized' by a de-facto transfer of wealth/earnings out of the pockets of dancers who produce more club income because they are indeed more beautiful and/or hustling harder. This is exactly what happens when a club collects say a 50% 'retainer' on every private dance sold by every dancer which the club then uses to fund weekly base pay checks and unemployment/disability premiums. The most beautiful/hardest hustling girls who sell the most private dances (often by a 3-4-5 to 1 margin over their less beautiful less energetic co-workers) wind up contributing a huge amount of 'dollars' to the base pay and benefit pool rather than their own purses, which the club then uses to 'subsidize' equal base pay and benefit coverage for less productive co-workers.The ugly and lazyass unfortunates among us deserve equal protection under the law, dammit.
From a financial incentive standpoint for a top notch dancer who is very beautiful and a hustler, this can translate into the difference between earning $2,000 a week without benefits as an IC, versus earning $1,200 with benefits as an 'employee' with base pay included. At the same time, for a less top notch dancer, this could translate into earning $500 a week without benefits as an IC versus earning $450 a week with benefits as an 'employee' with base pay included. Unfortunately, in the real world, it won't take long for the top notch dancers to figure out that they are giving up some 40% of their income potential versus moving on to another club which treats them as an IC. When the the top notch dancers do move on, the club and the remaining 'employee' dancers have lost both a large part of their customer appeal, as well as the 'financial engine' which provided sufficient cash flow for the club to be able to afford the weekly base pay and insurance premiums for 'mediocre' dancers - many of which are actually not productive enough given a 50-50% private dance split to generate the club revenue necessary to cover the cost of their base pay and benefit insurance premiums. This is of course a formula for financial disaster a la the Lusty Lady.



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