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Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks
Accommodate hotel, motel, and resort patrons by registering and assigning rooms to guests, issuing room keys or cards, transmitting and receiving messages, keeping records of occupied rooms and guests' accounts, making and confirming reservations, and presenting statements to and collecting payments from departing guests.
What a hotel, motel, and resort desk clerk does
Become a hotel, motel, and resort desk clerk
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good hotel, motel, and resort desk clerk
- Talking to others.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Understanding people's reactions.
- Looking for ways to help people.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $21 per hour with a typical salary of $36,700 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $18 and $23 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $5,600 and $33,800 per year.
- 39% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $20 per hour with a typical salary of $22,600 per year.
- 81.8% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Hotel, Motel, And Resort Desk Clerk job outlook
- There are 4,626 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 1,065 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 5% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 31% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.