Originally Posted by Profits of Doom

I ran porn stores, strip clubs, and a big mainstream club, and we generally paid the bouncers between $7-$10 an hour. At the Deja Vu we owned in Port Huron, MI. the bouncer got $7 an hour and the girls did tip him out, but that was a small club and he went out of his way for them. At most clubs the girls are required to only tip out the DJ's, and most don't even do that. I can't tell you how many times I saw a girl have a big night, and the DJ got maybe $5 from her, and the bouncer nothing. Dancers do not like to tip out.

At the mainstream club in Memphis we paid the bouncers $10 per hour, and the head of security was on a salary. He did ok for himself, but by no means was he rich from bouncing.

I do wonder what Vegas guys are making at the mainstream clubs, though. I always used to tip the doorman to get past the line, and if the line was big you would usually have to give them $20 a person or more that you were taking in, and that was before paying the cover. I can also remember when Rain first opened in the Palms, I had a group that rented one of those VIP booths with the waterbed seats, and the security guy was awesome. He came around a bunch of times to check on us, and even offered to round up some girls to bring over for some of the guys in the group. At the end of the night we tipped him $100. That probably is out of the norm, but I'm sure it happens more than we think...