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    At my club, house fee is either $35 or $50, depending on the night.
    I either pay a friend $10/15 to drop me off/pick me up, or take the bus to work and pay $25 to take a cab home.
    There is no mandatory tipout at my club, so depending on how well I do I tip out anywhere from $0-20. (Keep in mind this is Portland -- most clubs don't even bother with housefee or max out at $20, with tipping mandatory).

    So on any given night I pay about $60-100 to go to work. Depending on how I gross, I'm paying anywhere from 20% to 70% (ewwwwww!) of how much I actually earn to work. Obviously the better I do the more I tipout.

    What about you? Does anyone else find that taxi costs are a big butt pain or is it the house fees..?

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    For me the transport costs are high. It's £20 house fee and depending on where I'm working the travel cost is anywhere between £5 and £35. Usually means I spend the first hour or two paying off my expenses.
    That's why I'm finding someplace closer in the new year.

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    And let's not forget the make-up, hair, clothes etc... Damn it's an expensive job.

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    $25 house fee and between $30 and $50 in tipouts. Not bad at all compared to most.
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    Sure is! ^ ^ ^ It's not a poor girls profession! I mean, it's a great means to and end..and can be done on a budget...but for the most part we put out A LOT to get back a lot.

    My old club, house fees, tip and % included, I wound up paying out about $90 a night, give or take.....and I am a make-up whore....I love it! So I buy lots...then costumes and up-keep....whew!!




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    OH! But the club I work at now...$20 house, topping out around $40 a night with tip out.....and I make more now than I did at my expensive club.... It works.




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    Default Re: how much does it cost you to work per night?

    $60 a night with house fees and tip out included.

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    80-120 depending on if i feel like being on stage or not.
    Not including tip outs to the dj, housemom, valet guy, bouncers/VIP hosts.

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    sounds expensive

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    I don't work in clubs anymore but since I can't get a car loan, I can tell you what I happened.

    I made $460 from two shows.
    My taxi cost $120 to get everywhere.
    My security cost $100.

    ...so yeah... I fucking hate not having a car. :/


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    Gosh my fees have been all over the place depending on where I was working at the time..... in my fav FL club my tipouts would fall between $40-$60 based on how many bouncers were on the particular shift or if the dj did something special for me..... in NYC fees were always around $300..... every other area I worked around the U.S. fell between those two ranges....so my answer to the OP question is between $40-$300.

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    Sun. - Tues., house fees are either 60 cash or 80 funny money. Wed. - Sat. it's 120 cash or 140 funny money...unless we do features...features are $15 each (or $20 funny money) and we'll usually do 2 a night. So Friday/Saturday house is almost always $150 cash or $180 funny money. DJ tipout is minimum $40, housemom is minimum $10 but most girls usually tip $20...makeup artist is minimum $10 and more if you get something done. If you get into a private room, you tip the host 40 bucks per half hour. My cab fare is $50 if I go alone, $15 if I split it with 3 other girls.

    All in all, it costs anywhere from $180 to $300 for me to work...but it's really not SO bad because it's a flat fee and that's it. We keep all of our lapdance money and if we've had a bad night the managers let us pay half house fee or even less...

    They also have an incentive where if you work 4 nights in a calendar week, the 4th night is half house and so is the 5th night...it's doable.

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    $60 per night for hotel (although if I stay more than 5 nights I get a discount extended-stay rate), 50% of lap dance money ($10 from each dance), $10 for jukebox, and between $25-50 mandatory tipout. Spring through fall they give me a place to stay for free, but in the winter they don't want to pay the heat bill, so I have to stay in a hotel until it starts to get nice out again. It just sucks that during the slowest time of the year I have to pay for a hotel.
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    If i work monday, tuesday or wednesday night there is no house fee so I keep 100% of my earnings. I drive there so there are petrol costs but its not too far away. Parking is also free during the week.
    So they only expense is using my make-up and fake-tan.

    Thursday - sunday: $30 house fee. we don't have tip-out, we keep 100% of our tips.
    Usually on friday and saturday night I park in a 24 hour access car park which is $8.
    So the most I ever pay to work is $38 plus as I mentioned the cost of petrol, make-up and fake-tan.

    I can't complain.

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    30 dollar tip out
    50 dollar house
    5 dollars for every dance (dances are 10 and 15 dollars) up to 30 dances so 150 for dances...
    so basically 230 a night..

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    Tip out for me is always 30-40 between house mom and dj. Then club is either 75, 150, or 250 for the night.

    Lucky me, Cheetahs in NYC will be opening next month and they're not gonna have a tip out for the girls who help start the club up. Although they'll implement one at some point. Yay for no tip out in NYC. (well, there will be hosts and dj and housemom and makeup lady, and hairdresser...

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    $10 gas
    $15 house fee (usually this much)
    $10 bouncer
    $15-20 DJ
    $3 doorguy who worked one hour with me on shift change
    $5 doorguy who worked one hour with me and walked me to my car
    equals... $58

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    $20 house fee
    $5 - $10 per DJ, which could be once or twice a night depending on when I get in.
    $5 - $10 to the bouncer walking me to my car.
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    $30 house fee Sunday through Thursday
    $70 house fee Friday and Saturday
    $10-15 bartender/manager
    $5 to each bouncer and emcee which is $10 on weekdays and around $25-$30 on the weekends

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    It's at least $200/night with tipouts, house fees, and funny money conversions. Tonight I paid $228.

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    Cab: $38.00
    House Fee: $20 - $100 (Depending on what time you go in)
    - I always go in before they open and try to pay only $20.00
    Tip to DJ: $10.00 (Optional but I like to give it to them)

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    I have a car. Gas currently costs me maybe $1-2 roundtrip.

    $25 house fee
    $10-20 to DJ
    $5 to the guy who walks me to my car
    10% of NET to staff tip pot

    I figure the 10% like this: If the crap DJ is working when I'm there, then he gets $10, so I'm paying $40 in flat fees. Every $100 I make will cost me $10 to the tip pot. I always make at least $200 here, so I figure I'm automatically $60 in the hole upon entrance. I don't start counting until I've hit $260 - now I've made $200 profit and I count every $110 after that as $100 for me. When I make $370 gross I'm paying $70 in total fees. $480 gross, $80 fees. And so on.

    So basically, I'm currently paying $70-100 plus my $1-2 gas and whatever I'm spending on gear.

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    I drive about a half hour to work (mostly highway). So prob $2-3 each time I work.
    All tip out is "optional", but we are really supposed to do it.
    $5 to the bouncer(s) so thats $10 usually
    10% to the DJ....

    easy, easy....almost always under $50 in tipout, so I don't complain.
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    About $75/night in tipout is the average.

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    home club:
    I drive so $1-$2 gas(it isnt far)
    $10 house
    $10 min to day dj
    $10 min to night dj(day shift intersects)
    $5 min to the bouncer who walks me out
    More if I've had a really good shift(hasnt happened at home lately..hence the traveling!)

    outof town:
    $1-$2 gas(still not far from the hotel)
    $30 house
    $15 min to dj
    $5 min to each boucer(2-3 depending on the day)
    again...more if I've done well.
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