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Overview
Assist patrons at hotel, apartment, or office building with personal services. May take messages; arrange or give advice on transportation, business services, or entertainment; or monitor guest requests for housekeeping and maintenance.
Salary growth for baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges
Is this job likely to reward you for sticking with it through pay raises and promotions? The higher a job’s “experience quotient,” the more you are likely to get as you stay there.
Experience quotient percentile
Take a minute to look at how much you might expect your salary to increase with each five years' experience, as well as how the numbers working at each age change. Does this seem to be a job for the young or the old, or could it be a career offering steady salary growth for many years?
How do benefits for this career compare to other jobs? The availability of health care, especially employer provided health care, and pension plans can add significantly to the value of compensation you receive in a career. These charts compare how this career compares to other careers with regard to health care and pension plans.
Some jobs are more stressful than others, and some are just plain dangerous. The following list gives the percentages of concierges who report hazardous or difficult situations typically occurring at least once a week.
About 80 concierges become injured or ill for every 10,000 workers, making this job more dangerous than 76% of other careers. The most common specific illnesses or injuries are detailed following.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), concierges typically hold a high school diploma or equivalent.
Sometimes the typical education identified by the BLS differs a bit from the reality of the how much education current workers actually have. The donut shows the education level held by people currently working as baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges as reported in responses to the American Community Survey.
Programs recommended by the Department of Education
The Department of Education recommends the following college degree programs as preparation for this career. You can click the program row to learn more about the program and explore a list of schools that offer the program.
Some careers tend to be centered in specific parts of the country. For example, most jobs in fashion are in New York or California. Let's see if your dream job is easy to find in your dream location! We have a few choices for viewing the data that can help you get a full employment picture.
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Number of Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges per 1,000 workers (ACS)
Which states hire the most concierges? We wonder if that's a fair question since states come in all sizes, so instead let's start with the question of which states have the highest density of people working as concierges. You can choose to view the number of jobs per state if you prefer.
Salaries by state
Let's get a feel for where concierges earn the highest salaries. There are several choices for which data we consider and how we view that data, and each can lead to different conclusions, so please read on...
Median salary versus state ratio
We use two methods to compare salaries across states:
In-state comparisons: the ratio of median (middle) salaries for baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges compared to the median salary for all people working in each state, or
Median salary: the unaltered median salaries for baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges.
We hope the ratio allows perspective about how salaries may compare to the regional cost-of-living.
The darkest shading corresponds to states in which baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges earn the highest salary when compared to other jobs in the state. We think this figure might be a better indicator than the actual salary for your buying power as a state resident.
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Location-adjusted median salary for Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges (ACS for all specialties)
22% of Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges are working part time.
We’ve found that some jobs have a huge number of part-time workers, and typically that is because they are unable to find full-time work or the job itself can’t provide full-time hours. With 22% part-time workers, this occupation has a higher percentage of part-time workers than 71% of careers.
The median salary for all full-time male workers in the
US exceeds the full-time median salary for women
by 19%.
The situation is a little better for baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges, with the
median salary for men 7%
higher than the median salary for women.