# NYC Housekeepers and 18+ dollar/hr pay

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-housekeepers-and-18-dollar-hr-pay/125710>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 27, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-housekeepers-and-18-dollar-hr-pay/125710 "2002-08-27T01:41:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-housekeepers-and-18-dollar-hr-pay/125710/1 "2002-08-27T01:41:37Z")

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Faced with possible strike in Chicago by hotel workers, I keep reading about how hotel workers in NYC are pulling in 18.00/hr plus pay. Housekeepers, operators etc.

[http://www.chicagohoteldeadline.com/](http://www.chicagohoteldeadline.com/)

If you go to the issues they say how much workers in different big cities get. Now I work in Chicago and our housekeepers are only getting about 7.00 which is a dollar some less pay than the website says.

I also am training mgrs in NYC and no one is getting near 18.00. The Credit Mgr and Acctng mgr for example are getting 18.50/hr.

So my question is what hotels are paying so much that it is inflating the average.

I only get a cite from the union of the 18.00 plus per hour wages

Does anyone KNOW of any NYC housekeepers, bellman etc making that much?

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-housekeepers-and-18-dollar-hr-pay/125710/2 "2002-08-27T11:41:12Z")

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Short answer

Livign in/around NYC is F\*&%en expensive

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**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-housekeepers-and-18-dollar-hr-pay/125710/3 "2002-08-27T13:14:08Z")

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> I also am training mgrs in NYC and no one is getting near 18.00. The Credit Mgr and Acctng mgr for example are getting 18.50/hr.
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> So my question is what hotels are paying so much that it is inflating the average.
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> I only get a cite from the union of the 18.00 plus per hour wages

The key word here, as I see it, is **union**.

Is your hotel a union shop? (If there’s a giant, inflatable rat outside the building, I’d venture to say it’s not. NY Dopers will know what I mean.)

What union gave you the $18.00 cite?

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**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-housekeepers-and-18-dollar-hr-pay/125710/4 "2002-08-27T13:15:40Z")

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Uh, could a mod please add a backslash to that second bracketed quote please? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-housekeepers-and-18-dollar-hr-pay/125710/5 "2002-08-30T23:53:43Z")

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Check out

[www.chicagohoteldeadline.com](http://www.chicagohoteldeadline.com)

And check the links for pay around the country.

Yes our hotel is union but even in NYC our hotels are union and we don’t come close to that.