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4 Charts Showing Increases in U.S. Hotel Workers’ Salaries and Wages

Dan Peltier

Photo Credit: Front desk employees at work at the Courtyard New York Manhattan. Skift / Samantha Shankman

Skift Take

The end of the recession, while certainly a cause for celebration, has led hoteliers to become more cautious in their hiring and payroll processes as the embers of minimum wage fights grow brighter across the country and the impact of lower unemployment levels settles in.

Overall U.S. unemployment is down from the height of the recession in 2009-2010 and salaries and wages continue to trend upwards but this doesn't spell the end of hoteliers' balance sheet challenges. As the recession waned during the past three years hoteliers have faced the pressure of rising taxes and increases in mandated employee benefits. Starting in 2014, PKF Hospitality Research and CRBE contend that hotel operators will need to focus on the salaries, wages, and bonuses component of labor costs more aggressively than in the

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