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NEW REPORT REVEALS LOW PAY, DRAMATIC SPIKE IN
UNEMPLOYMENTHotel Workers Earn Poverty WagesAt last count, the median wage of a hotel
worker was $8.62 per hour 40 percent lower than the median hourly
wage for the United States as a whole and, given a 35-hour
workweek, totaling a little less than $16,000 per year.
The upshot: Nearly half of all hotel workers earn wages that are
below the poverty level set by the U.S. government for a two-adult,
two-child family. (In 2000, a full-time worker had to earn at least
$17,463 to exceed the poverty level.)
The findings were revealed in September in “U.S. Hotels and
Their Workers: Room for Improvement,” a report compiled by the
AFL-CIO Working for America Institute (www.workingforamerica.org).
The post-9/11 decline in travel and the recession dealt a blow
to hotel employment. From March 2001 through May 2002, the industry
lost 122,000 jobs (6.4 percent). The precipitous loss of 38,000
hotel jobs between September and October 2001 alone represents the
largest single-month loss for hotels during the current
recession.
Unemployment for hotel workers climbed from 5.2 percent in 2000
to 7.0 percent in 2001, compared with the 0.8 percent rise (from
4.0 to 4.8 percent) for all U.S. workers in the same period.
Nearly all major metropolitan areas suffered hotel job losses in
the past year. Atlanta, New York City, Phoenix and Washington,
D.C., all lost at least 13 percent of their hotel work force.
• ART PFENNING
Art Pfenning is the corporate research director for
NORTHSTAR Travel Media, LLC, M&C’s parent company.
What Association Executives
Earn
The gender gap in earnings grows in relation to size
of organization, according to a 2001 compensation survey.
Male CEOs
Female CEOs
Trade association
$136,775
$92,125
Individual membership association
$139,241
$85,204
Total staff size:
2 or fewer
$75,000
$60,000
3 to 5
$95,640
$77,000
6 to 10
$116,550
$108,000
11 to 20
$138,200
$126,000
21 to 50
$201,923
$159,280
51 to 100
$237,900
$145,518
More than 100
$287,600
$249,233
Total annual budget:
$300,000 or less
$67,600
$54,789
$300,001 to $500,000
$75,600
$68,579
$500,001 to $750,000
$90,000
$72,800
$750,001 to $1 million
$102,000
$87,525
$1,000,001 to $2.5 million
$118,800
$112,425
$2,500,001 to $5 million
$170,000
$137,100
$5,000,001 to $10 million
$227,750
$160,585
$10,000,001 to $15 million
$225,994
$171,750
More than $15 million
$285,000
$256,269
Source:
American Society of Association Executives
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