las vegas casino jobs are high paying and often union - by Mike

Las Vegas Casino Jobs

Las Vegas casino jobs are being filled everyday as employees leave, change jobs or new casinos open. With the opening of so many mega resorts on the Strip, 10.5% more jobs are added to the 965,000 worker job base. Mega projects like "CityCenter", the huge city within the city of Vegas, and Fontainebleau add ten's of thousands of jobs to Vegas.

Wynn Casino has some of the highest paying of all the dealer jobs in Las Vegas pictured here.

More and more casinos are requiring applicants to apply online and more importantly, to follow up online. Wynn Las Vegas Hotel and Casino has a great online job center where applicants create a presence and can apply for new jobs, change positions and track the status of their applications.

Las Vegas casino jobs attract the most people because the perception is casinos pay the most and provide job security. Also many casino jobs are union, and that usually means higher wages, health benefits, better working conditions and better job security.

There are many kinds of Las Vegas casino jobs like being a go-go dancer pictured here. Darlene works in the Pleasure Pit, the gaming area located in Planet Hollywood.

The fact is there are thousands of Las Vegas hotel jobs and restaurant jobs such as maid, server, bartender, bar back, bus boy, bus girl, cashier, host, cook, or select concierge. Do not underestimate these jobs. Bartenders in Vegas often make $100,000 dollars plus. They just don't have the kind of job security casinos provide and Vegas, in reality, is a family town. When you have a family you will want job security.

Many of the jobs at casinos are union and you will have to join the union before being hired or when you're hired. Lots of activity in Vegas revolves around unions trying to unionize casino workers such as card table game dealers in each casino. The casinos work just as hard to convince employees that they do not need to unionize. Casinos like Venetian are particularly adamant about keeping unions out, though it does not always work. Workers actually decide to unionize or not by voting.

Las Vegas casinos like the Rio have free shows for guests creating jobs for many dancers pictured here as well as stagehands.

Cocktail waitresses are unionized and make a very high base pay and get to keep all of their tips. That is not the case with dealers who split tips on each shift and are paid minimum wage. Cocktail waitresses get health insurance but they also usually have to wear costumes that would make your father blush.

Restaurant jobs are easier to come by. Though good ones are hard to get like anything else. If you are new and you don't have a big city resume, try working at a chain or in a local restaurant and then work your way over to the Strip. I know a guy working at Valentino restaurant in the Venetian and he often makes $500 dollars a night. Just so you know Valentino is one of the "top restaurants in Vegas."

Conventions are a great source of pick-up jobs in Las Vegas as you wait for a casino position to open, like CES photographed here with over 100,000 attendees. You will find trade shows and conventions offer a variety of work for everything from setting up booths to modeling, handling products and entertaining.

Other paths to Las Vegas casino jobs include attending top notch cooking schools like Cordon Bleu. UNLV, University of Las Vegas, also has cooking classes as well as degrees in hotel management. Vegas casinos like to hire locals and are big supporters of the local colleges, including UNLV and CSN, College of Southern Nevada. There are over 3,000 restaurants in Vegas. Use the internet to find all those Las Vegas casino jobs.