las vegas hotel jobs are union and non-union depending on the casino - by Mike

Las Vegas Hotel Jobs

Las Vegas hotel jobs increase as mega resort boom creates 100,000 jobs. Nevada State Employment Agency projects job growth returning to 6.4% like it was at its height in 2005. Vegas will resume its boomtown status as "CityCenter", "Echelon", "Encore", Fontainebleau, and Project 3355 open before 2010. If you are thinking of moving to Vegas, this is a good time as housing costs are down and Vegas is projected to be short about 25,000 employees. With the addition of 40,000 new hotel rooms adding 100,000 new jobs to the job base of 965,000 jobs in the Vegas valley, Vegas is booming.

The young and beautiful can find jobs as dancers in hotels and clubs like this dancer pictured here at the Voodoo Lounge in the Rio.

The service and hospitality industry have thousands of Las Vegas hotel jobs and restaurant jobs such as a maid, server, bartender, bar back, bus boy, bus girl, host, cook, cashier, or a select concierge. You will make a good living at these jobs with many bartenders pulling in $100,000 dollars plus. Many of the jobs at casinos are Union, and you will have to join the Union when hired. Local unions work to get workers like card dealers at specific casinos to unionize; casinos work hard to convince them they do not need to unionize.

Las Vegas hotels have jobs available for banquet servers like Maria pictured here. Banquet servers are usually in the Culinary union.

Las Vegas casino jobs attract the most people, because nearly every hotel has its own casino. There will be hundreds of gaming tables, each one needing a dealer for the players at one casino. Dealers are highly paid and splitting tips they earn brings them large bonuses. Some casinos are unionized, some are not. Dealers decide to unionize by voting.

Cocktail waitresses are unionized, make a very high base pay and get to keep all of their tips. That is the opposite of dealers who split tips on each shift and make minimum wage. Cocktail waitresses get health insurance and usually have to wear costumes that would make your mother blush. The classiest costumes are on the stunning girls working as drink servers at the Wynn. Don't forget about Union dues.

If you can not get a Las Vegas hotel job and need money try working in one of the beautiful stores pictured here that always seem to be opening and need sales help.

It's easy to get restaurant jobs. Good ones though are hard to come by. Try starting at a chain or local restaurant and working your way over to the Strip. My friend started working in Valentino restaurant in the Venetian and is making $500 a night. Of course Valentino is considered one of the top restaurants in Vegas along with Lotus of Siam and L'Atlelier de Joel Robuchon.

Top notch cooking schools as well as hotel management can be found at UNLV, University of Las Vegas, if you want to brush up on your skills. Vegas casinos like to hire locals for Las Vegas hotel jobs. So moving here is mandatory unless you have great credentials. Cordon Bleu is another great cooking school which has a branch in Summerlin. There are over 3,000 restaurants in Vegas.

Las Vegas hotel casinos have interesting jobs like in the Wine Cellar at the Rio pictured here. Not many people know about it but the cellar houses great wines from the early 1800's on up.

Believe it or not hair stylus positions are available and pay very well. Banquet waiters are in demand also, but you must be in the Culinary Union which puts you on Call Lists. Call lists are A, then B, then C, etc. 'A' list goes out the most but you have to work you way up to that. There are over 4,000 conventions and trade shows alone, plus Christmas parties, slot tournaments, weddings, wakes and reunions. Thousands and thousands of banquets are held every year in Vegas making it easier to land Las Vegas hotel jobs.