New Orleans Hotel Industry Short on Workers, Raises Wages
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, January 30, 2006. According to a survey conducted for a group of New Orleans hotels by Arizona-based Wagewatch (www.wagewatch.com), the leading source for compensation and benefits data in the hospitality, health care, and senior care industries, New Orleans has had to raise wages to attract the workers it needs to revive its tourism industry.
"Some positions, such as that of bellman, have seen a doubling of wages," says says Randy Pullen, CEO of WageWatch. "But in every position, there has been a significant increase." Because of the obvious effects of Hurricane Katrina on the labor market, a group of hotels asked WageWatch to conduct a survey of key hourly positions in the New Orleans hospitality market. The survey may be used to entice workers back to hotels that may be open for business but short-staffed. To help with the relief effort, WageWatch volunteered to conduct this survey at no charge.
According to Pullen "It is our pleasure to donate this survey to the New Orleans Hospitality Human Resources Association. They are having some difficulty getting the tourism industry, one of the main economic drivers of the city, back in gear, and we hope we can be helpful." Wagewatch, a web-based service for surveying, reporting, and analyzing compensation data, is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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source for compensation and benefits data., provides instantly accessible industry wage, salary and benefits data, delivered to any Internet-enabled device. Using a patent-pending technology, Wagewatch surveys industries and provides companies with the data they need to make their compensation and benefits decisions. As a pure information specialist, Wagewatch gives its customers the ability to see what their competitors are paying and position themselves in their markets.
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