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Originally Posted by Percula
Base salary is going to between $7 and $11 an hour plus tips and benefits.
$7-11 base wage? Where exactly is that? The base wage at the 2 casinos I've dealt in 2 different states has been $4.25. I've heard that at some places it can be as high as $6.
You're not going to get benefits either for a long long long time. People who have full time gigs aren't in a hurry to give them up.
I don't like to suggest non-2+2 sites, but in this case I think casinodealers.net might be more helpful for what you're asking.
One of the reasons that dealers do not want discuss how much they earn in front of the players who tip them is that it is usually a lose/lose scenario.
Let's say for example you're a player, I'm a dealer, and I tell you that last year dealing 5 days a week I made $42,162 dollars (totally made up figure). Now there are 2 bad possible reactions.
1. "Wow that's a lot of money, they don't need to make that much all they do is sit around and deal cards I'm going to tip less from now on."
2. "He sounds like he's begging for tips! I can't believe he would go around basically asking for handouts. That's pretty low. I'm going to tip less from now on."
Now you may be one of the many people who thinks those two lines of thought are quite ridiculous. However, it seems the topic of tipping is very sensitive to quite a few folks. Very VERY little good can ever come from a dealer discussing how much he/she makes, and that's why whenever the question comes up we try to be as helpful as we can with our responses without getting into specific numbers. Just remember that when that dealer says "thank you very much" when you tip him, he really genuinely is appreciative.
Last edited by Quadstriker; 03-17-2008 at 01:58 PM.