Seattle Is One of the Most Difficult and Least Lucrative Cities to Be a Stripper

Aye. I do remember PSD mentioning this too. And that is why she travelled so much.

Dances in Seattle seem to be on the expensive side and there's a ton of tech $$$ - I would have thought it'd be a good place for dancers.

I do know post 2010 or so there was a major crackdown and mileage and nudity were severely curtailed and perhaps this impacted making $$$ (IDK how much things have progressed since the crackdown but perhaps they have)

@Papi the Bay Area has the same attributes you mentioned (a lot of tech money, expensive dances) and yet it seems SF isn't a great place for dancers either. Of course the new IC to employee law hasn't helped the situation but still.

I wonder which areas are the best for dancers?

Good areas are a constantly fluctuating thing.

For example, I used to love working in Austin and my good/bad income ratio used to be near 1:1 By that I mean it was common to make $750 one day and $250 the next and I was still averaging a decent $500. And during that time I was often leaving my shifts early anyways—since management didn’t care as long as you tipped out. (Not sure if that was my true numbers, but it was in the $450-550 range somewhere) Other girls I believe were also doing very well because then girls kept coming in to work, and online inquiries about Austin spiked on various platforms. And then it got extra competitive and dancer saturation became high and I heard a rumor that Palazio management upped the tip out requirement 4x what it used to be, making it an extra $60 or $90 to work a particular shift. Though that being said, I’m sure girls who are favorites of club staff members are doing awesome

More well-known good times and areas (that I’ve heard secondhand)

*whatever city a major sporting event is happening *Vegas during CES convention *tampa winter *myrtle beach golf season *NYC stock bonus week Etc

Otherwise, a dancer has to actively make her own good area via building regulars.

Interesting stuff. I haven’t clubbed there but I’d like too.

Perhaps areas with high COL impact club spending?

Also, areas where's there's lots of other things to do entertainment-wise may affect club spending?

Miami doesn't strike me as a good area for dancers:

• high COL (mainly housing) and jobs don't pay that well on avg - a study a while back ranked Miami the worst w.r.t. ratio of COL to wages

• lots of other entertainment options in Miami (very diverse and lively nightlife)

• cutthroat Cuban dancer mafia that often undercut the other dancers

Whenever a dancer asks about the Miami area, usually the reply is to go to West Palm Beach or Key West instead. Or at minimum Broward County.

Unless of course she gets into E11even. But even that club is a hit or miss $ wise from what I’ve heard.

^ of the three South Florida counties you’re referring to Broward is the least costly of an area where the COL has gotten quite high.

Lap dance prices in Seattle are too high. That's the problem, not lack of alcohol. I'm a Seattle club-goer. Have been since 2006. Even in several trips in 2004-06 before I moved here. The clubs here were thriving until the 2008 financial meltdown, even without alcohol sales. Then, you could still get $20. dances in most clubs. For $30, at least topless (even though only bikini dances are legal), with two-way contact. Extras with a tip.

Now you'll mostly get only a bikini dance (lawful) for $30. Most dancers will charge $40 for topless and/or two-way contact. If the dancers would lower their prices, they'd do better. Alcohol isn't the main deficiency in dancers' success. It's the prices they're charging.

For that matter, what about California clubs? I lived there and clubbed for many years before I moved to Seattle. Same thing there: No alcohol in the nude clubs, only in the topless clubs. The dancers in the clubs there were doing well also.

I wonder if part of the reason dancers may be charging high dance-prices is bc the clubs charge them high-fees perhaps in part bc the clubs can't get profits from alcohol-sales?

@Papi: yeh lots of tech $$$, but also left coast woke progressives. Will be interesting to see what Portland OR is like when I get to travel there. What I've been seeing on here shocks me compared to what I remember from 2005.

No, clubs just stared charging the dancers more to work when the money dried up in the great recession. The club owners still get theirs , so to speak, regardless of what it does to the dancers or customers.

SLD that's why I don't bother talking to her/him whoever the fuck it is. Her entire MO is to take something you posted and make an assumption about something you never mentioned and make a point based off of that. I've watched her do the shit for over a year to the point where it's impossible to have a real discussion.

@nicespice, come to Seattle and I'll show you how much you can make :)