The $18 hourly starting salary announced Monday by Hard Rock is 2 1/2 times the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, and exceeds the local minimum wage in every state in which the company operates, Allen said.Īn entry-level worker in Florida, for example, will receive an immediate pay increase of $8 to $11 an hour above the state’s $10 an hour minimum wage. Representatives of several other national casino companies did not respond to inquiries Monday about their pay rates. "It's going to have a big impact everywhere they operate," he said. RELATED: This is why Florida electric bills are likely to increase in 2023īob McDevitt, president of Local 54 of the Unite Here union that negotiated the Atlantic City contract, said Hard Rock's setting of a national salary scale "is a great move." It provides for an $18 hourly starting rate, and classifications such as housekeeping will earn $22 an hour in the fourth year of the deal. In July, the main casino workers union in Atlantic City reached what it termed an "historic" contract with the city's nine casinos, providing for the largest salary increases ever granted in a casino pact in New Jersey. It comes as wages in the casino industry, as in many others, are increasing due to several factors including a shortage of workers and rising salaries in other fields that are luring casino workers.
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