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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
- Average hourly rate is $17 per hour with an average salary of $35,700 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $15 and $18 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $31,400 and $37,300 per 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.