Infamous male dance revue company Chippendales has been around since 1979. How much moolah do the attractive performers make?
With suggestive tag traces like "you'll never forget your first time" and guarantees of a "mantastic, sex-god, abs party that will make you lose your damn mind" (no matter that suggests), Chippendales is the male dance revue company that took the sector through storm within the 1980s. According to the New York Post, because the impossibly chiseled, oiled-up dancers placed on their bulge-flaunting show, it wasn't uncommon for rowdy immediately women to shout: “We want meat! We want meat!”
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But in the back of the glamorous, sexually charged facade of generous tips (this used to be the fruitful '80s, folks), tight G-strings, and near-hysterical audiences were sinister secrets and techniques involving drug-fueled prostitution, racketeering, arson makes an attempt, and murder. What's a cultural phenomenon with out its quirks?
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Hulu's upcoming true-crime scripted series Welcome to Chippendales tells the bonkers story of Chippendales' incredible origins in addition to its stunning '90s downfall. It makes a speciality of Kumail Nanjiani's Somen 'Steve' Banerjee, "an Indian immigrant who became the unlikely founder of the world’s greatest male-stripping empire — and let nothing stand in his way in the process," as detailed by way of the series' synopsis.
In light of Robert Siegel's series — which hits the streamer on Nov. 22, 2022 — people are curious to know more about what the infamous dance company is like these days, together with how much the hunky performers make.
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How much money do Chippendales performers make?
Finding concrete numbers concerning dancer salaries is tricky, but a 2008 interview with now-former Chippendales dancer and choreographer Jordan Lee Dizon is telling.
When University of Nebraska Omaha's pupil newspaper The Gateway asked Jordan how much the typical Chippendales dancer will get paid — treading lightly, in fact — he used to be honest, albeit imprecise.
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"We get a salary plus tips. It varies. Each guy negotiates his own contract, and each guy gets paid differently. So, I can’t really speak for what they get paid. I know what I get paid, but that’s always a no-no. We’re not allowed to talk about that," he shared. Interesting.
As a long way as tips pass, that still varies.
"Like last night was better than tonight, even though there were more people here tonight," he explained. "I haven’t counted tonight’s tips yet. There are some shows where I’ll make around $4,000 to $5,000 a night just in tips. But there are some shows where you’ll only make $200. So, it depends on who’s generous and who’s not."
Keep in thoughts, this used to be over a decade in the past.
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According to a 2020 Glassdoor review from an alleged Chippendales performer, the task offers "good exercise and it will keep you in shape," but there's "not very good pay at all."
However, based on eight posted salaries from Chippendales dancers in the Las Vegas area, the median pay for a dancer at Chippendales is around $76,000 according to year. According to Glassdoor, this estimate is "the midpoint of the ranges from our proprietary Total Pay Estimate model and based on salaries collected from our users."
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While the estimated base pay is $66,309 every year, the estimated further pay is $9,723 annually. "Additional pay could include bonus, stock, commission, profit sharing, or tips," Glassdoor explains.
As we all know, Jordan Lee Dizon has made as much as $5,000 in pointers in a single night, so the extra pay obviously fluctuates. If handiest shall we take a peep at the ones contracts.
Welcome to Chippendales premieres on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, on Hulu.
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