Just curious what the average is.
Just curious what the average is.




That all depends on where you work. In NYC you have to pay extra to stay off stage. It's $80 at Scores West. $40 just to be on stage.
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It depends, but most clubs have a minimum tip-out of $10-15+. If it's a really busy night, and/or you make a lot of money on that shift, it's kind of expected that you'd tip the DJ more than the bare minimum.
I've always been curious as to why customers often ask us about how much money we're required to tip out. Do customers really want to hear about the usurious fees/percentage of our money that we have to surrender to the club? I was always hesitant to admit to customers that I had to pay out say, $5 on every $20 dance. I was always worried that telling a customer this info would affect how willing he'd be to spend money on me. In one way, he could sympathize with the fact that I'd only be seeing 75% of the money he'd spent on lapdances with me; this in turn might result in him giving better tips for my dances, since the tips would make up for the $5 lapdance "house fee" and would be kept entirely by me.
But in another way, the customer might also resent the fact that 25% of his lapdance money isn't even getting into the hands of the pretty girl that he spent it on; this in turn might result in him feeling that lapdances are a "scam," and instead opt for the girl meeting him outside the club, so that she could get the full 100% of his money/gifts/etc. I wonder if perhaps this is one of the (less common) reasons that guys are so quick to tell a dancer that he "isn't into lapdances," and instead solicits the idea of meeting the dancer outside the club. True, ~95% of the guys who suggest meeting outside of the club do this because they are simply cheap and want to get inside the girl's pants. But then again, perhaps some of the guys would rather meet the girl outside of the club, because then he would be able to give her money and know that it is going straight to her?(assuming that there are no pimps, money-hoarding boyfriends, etc usurping the money from the girl) For example, sugar daddies...if they already know that they can meet up with(or even "get some") from the girl outside of the club, then why do they continue to spend money on her IN the club, when a portion of that isn't even going to end up in her hands? It baffles me a little.





it's "up to us" at my current club, no mandatory.
most places i've worked it was a mandatory 10%. even without it being forced, i ALWAYS tip 10% minimum. there have been 2 times i did not tip a dj out of complete irritation. at my current club i always give 10%. if the dj is being extra accomodating (playing my requests, knows what i like, etc) or we've worked together for awhile or he helps me in other ways (directing me to custys with money) i'll go as high as 25%. there have been a couple times i've tipped 20% ... but only when the dj was VERY responsible for me making BANK. the way i see it, if you play a large part in my making 1000, i don't mind giving you 100 of it. also, doing so makes you MUCH more likely to help me out again.
it's rare that i do that though, because it's rare that a dj has that much involvement in my earnings. it all boils down to this:
i tip what i think is fair for the ammount of work contributed. simple as that.
do the bare minimum - you get 10%
make me really happy - you get 15%
go above and beyond and beyond and beyond - you get 20%
piss me off royal and you get 0 (and it takes A LOT to piss me off)
I tipped $20-40 almost all the time.
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At my club we dont' tip a percentage (thank goodness) the club I'm at we tip the DJ min of $10 and that is what I give him. He introduces all of the girls the same, plays the same music..so he's not really doing anything special to warrent extra tips for me.
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My club just started totally screwing over our dj. In fact, they all quit, and now we got new crappy dj's.
It used to be we had to pay the dj $10. He only got 5 of that tho. Now, we have to pay the dj $15, but he still only gets 5 of it. Its just a creative way for the club to get more money out of the dancers, but it screws over the dj's cause the dancers all think, hell, if Im giving him 15 already, why tip more? When in reality, he is only getting 5 bucks per girl.
$10 minimum or 10%, whichever is more. I try to take care of my dj..I like him..as slow as we've been lately he does everything he can to make things fun. Tipping the night dj is not mandatory(shifts cross over, so day girls work 2 hrs withthe night dj). But I usually slip him $10 unless he pisses me off. I didnt tip the one dj one night...and made DAMN sure he knew why i wasnt tipping him(he played techno all night for me after I asked hm twice not to...I despise techno and cannot dance to it)
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oh, i don't scream. actualy.... ever. i'm a very "talk things out" kind of person. if a dj is going out of their way to piss me off.. i just won't tip, and if i've already talked to him and he doesn't stop doing whatever it is he's doing, i will talk to management.
it takes a lot more than playing songs i hate. usualy when that happens i ignore it... unless it gets to the point where the songs i hate take up more than 25% of my stage songs. if that starts to happen i'll just talk to him. i won't "bitch" about it. usualy it gets worked out and it's no big deal. i just had one dj, long ago, who was dating a really cuntly dancer at the club. she was an all out drama queen. i avoided her, so she hated me. anyway.... the dj (her boyfriend) would say all kinds of shit when i went on stage, and would play.. not just songs i hate... but songs i hate that everyone in the world (including customers) hates.
he is the only dj i've stiffed completely.





It's a mandatory $10 in WI where I work. Plus, our DJ expects extra. He evens comes down from his DJ booth to check how many dances girls have so that when we don't tip him extra at the end of the night, he'll be sure to screw us over the next time we work. I don't understand why I work there sometimes![]()
I've always worked it out so that the DJ gets 10% of whatever I am taking home. So say I make $250 after the house takes their cut of the dances, and I owe a $25 house fee and $5 to the bouncer; then I give the DJ $20 and go home with $200 for myself.
I am thinking of trying DJing at a strip club instead of my usual venues. Nudity really doesn't do as much for me as it does to regular guys, so I'm sure that I could avoid being distracted when I start out.![]()




we have to tip at least 10% of dance profit minus the house fee, but i always tip 10% of the total...unless the dj's really negligent or something...



I always tip at least $20-30. I don't do percentages...maybe I should? To me 10% seems reasonable if you make $250 or so...but what about $500 or $600? $50-60? That just seems like so much! Am I just being cheap? I mean, if we're talking about $10 minimums (my club does that too) it just seems really high. I don't know!





our club minimum is $10. if the dj works with me, i will show my gratitude wonderfully.
at my club it is 10%.....
But I used to work at another club in Las Vegas where you also tipped 10% if you made $300 or less. If you made more then you just stick to $30. That was the max we were supposed to tip.




Last edited by georgiapeach; 01-26-2007 at 01:09 PM.



ten percent. and i resent every last goddamned cent. i've only ever had ONE DJ who did anything above and beyond pushing the "play" button on top 40 hits that don't suit my dance style.
also 5% to the bar.
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Damn, I would love to work with some of you who have posted, lol!
I can't complain, I'm making very good money here, but I probably get tipped about 5% on average, probably less, and certainly less in many cases. I get about 15-20$ per dancer on average--some tip 50$, some tip 8$. But one of the least attractive dancers we have was bitching about making 400$, minus 40$ tipout to everyone--and this on a thursday night.
If the dancers didn't tip the doormen so well I would make a lot more, but those guys actually bust their asses, so they deserve it.
What I find to be most absurd are the clubs that make the DJ tip the manager or the bar, for chrissakes. It's so fucking contrived--the customers tip the girl, the girl tips the DJ, the DJ tips the bar. If I was making even more than I am and I had to cough some up I suppose I might, but come on...
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At my new club the DJ tipping rule is really just a way for the club to take an extra cut of our money. We have to tip 10% to the DJ, write it down on a list and sign it, so he can pay in 55% of that to the club. They make us write it down so they can make sure he pays the right amount. And of course he generally has an idea what we make so he can tell if a girl is waaayy undertipping and call her on it.
It's bullshit. I'd rather they just take a damn cut of our money straight out, because that's what it amounts to. The DJ still takes home great money, but I just think it's retarded that the club does it this way. I'm guessing they figure we're more likely to be honest when we have to "tip" it to the DJ rather than pay it to the club. I suppose they could be right, but I find it a tad insulting to my (and the other girls') intelligence. Whatever.
I know that I DON'T like handing over 10% of my money, especially when I had a great night like tonight and I had to cough up so much for a "tip", ON TOP of all the other money I paidI also dislike that I "tipped" the DJ that much and he only gets to keep 45% of my payment - he does a great job and it's annoying to know the % breakdown. *sigh* But I'm putting up with it because the money is good and the bulge feels great in my pocket
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At one club I work at the DJ gets $10, another two clubs it's $15.
Usually $40, but if I make more and like the DJ..up to $100
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