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Survey: Hotel Jobs Helps Entry-Level Workers Build a Career

Andrew Sheivachman

Skift Take

As it turns out, performing the dirty work at a hotel paves the road to future career success for hospitality professionals.

The hotel industry remains a strong place for entry-level workers to start building a long-lasting career, according to a new survey conducted by WageWatch for the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA). A poll of 400,000 U.S. hotel workers across a variety of positions at 10,300 hotels found that more than half of department managers and hotel general managers started their career in an hourly entry-level position.

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