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Actually, that is a pretty cheap move for a rich family in a mansion. They are expecting one person to do the job of butler, secretary, house keeper and driver.
Usually that kind of job goes to someone who's family has a tradition of service work, there's a skewed mindset required that most folks not "in service" won't have.
Room and board, including a car, mobile telephone, 4 weeks annual leave, once a year airline ticket home, etc. You can be expected to work 60+ hours or more a week.
Who says a butler gets 4 weeks leave????? Who would fill in for the butler during such an absence? Have you ever seen the movie The Remains of the Day? Being a butler is a horrible life! Being stuck at the house all day every day is basically all you can expect.
Now this is a real rich family with a big mansion that as a Butler you are responsible for the upkeep as well as appointments, driving the family when needed and you're on call 24/7. You are also a live-in employee. However as a Butler you not only get a great salary but all the perks and benefits of being one.
Room and board, including a car, mobile telephone, 4 weeks annual leave, once a year airline ticket home, etc. You can be expected to work 60+ hours or more a week.
Would you be willing to do that for $100K and some nice benefits?
The only reason why I wouldn't take that job is because I would never want to be on call 24/7 and only fly home every now and then. You'd have to pay me like a million or something and I'd only do it for a year or so, just to earn the money and go. I like being able go home at the end of the day and not think about work. With being on call, there's no such thing as peace or personal time, until you take that vacation.
$100k is not that much when you're working 60+ hrs...break that down to per hour and ALL the task you're appointed to do, you'll see it's not that much.
Now this is a real rich family with a big mansion that as a Butler you are responsible for the upkeep as well as appointments, driving the family when needed and you're on call 24/7. You are also a live-in employee. However as a Butler you not only get a great salary but all the perks and benefits of being one.
Room and board, including a car, mobile telephone, 4 weeks annual leave, once a year airline ticket home, etc. You can be expected to work 60+ hours or more a week.
Would you be willing to do that for $100K and some nice benefits?
You bet, but I'd ask for an annual minimum increase of a percent or two, based on satisfactory performance.
I hope you're up to the task. What special qualifications do you have for this job... if you don't mind discussing it? How big a staff are you allowed to hire? You have to do the driving?
A butler is a senior household staff member, and outranks a chauffeur, so the employer is clouding roles if they expect their butler to drive, much less other tasks as needed. They have no respect for the position in that regard, since a security specialist could be expected to do double duty as a chauffeur, and in a modern household, the nanny can be expected to drive children, but to expect someone with the title of butler to serve multiple roles for one paycheck is akin to exploiting someone in the position.
In that respect, and with a 24-7 requirement with only one month of annual leave, the salary is actually quite low, because you have no free time during the week, so you would be working for a base rate of $11.45/hr., with 168-hour work week, and weekly salary of $1923 (52 weeks as leave would be paid). Adding in the perks, say $30k-$40k for living expenses, health insurance, etc., and the hourly rate increases to $14.88-$16.02/hour, depending upon the actual value of the benefits package. The car and phone are not perks, they are requirements for a chauffeur, and belong to the employer, unless the car is titled in your name.
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