How Much Money Girls Are Making In Pattaya

[Millard]

My ex-girlfriend is a nurse at Pattaya Memorial. She makes 1,500 baht per day.

[kevozman1]

^Just checked that as I did not believe it, average earnings of a

nurse in Thailand=10,000 - 16,000 baht a month.

Edited August 24, 2010 by kevozman1

[waza]

My ex-girlfriend is a nurse at Pattaya Memorial. She makes 1,500 baht per day.

45,000 per month seems very high. My Mia is a top level executive in a nation company and only get 50,000 per month plus expenses. Maybe she should take up nursing lol

[Millard]

Sorry, I should clarify that my ex gets paid a flat rate of 1,500 per day. She's a contract nurse and not a salaried employee. Therefore, she doesn't receive a set monthly wage. In addition, she averages only five work days per week. Lastly, she has a Master's degree, which I'd assume bumps up her rate.

[cardholder]

I think Amazon coffee employees were on a salary of 5,000 Baht or so.

Just ask to a friend and I confirm that information. How can you live with that much money?

Most are female and will live at home and/or have a partner - it is therefor 5,000 Baht additional income going into that household.

The Thais (females at least) are adept at cutting their cloth as required.

[waza]

Sorry, I should clarify that my ex gets paid a flat rate of 1,500 per day. She's a contract nurse and not a salaried employee. Therefore, she doesn't receive a set monthly wage. In addition, she averages only five work days per week. Lastly, she has a Master's degree, which I'd assume bumps up her rate.

Sorry still dont believe it, 7,500 per week, 30,000 per month. Unless maybe she had a senior managerial position. But then she wouldnt work as a nurse.

Edited August 24, 2010 by waza

[anon8]

Nikkoid66,

you are new here, that is very clear. And thats a good thing! You are helping the world and Thai girls in particular. A noble effort. I used to help guys in very similar way, sort of raising awareness and all.

The things is, your numbers are wrong. And your vision about people here helping each other. Only close relatives are helped with cash.

Of course you didnt make up numbers, you got your facts from someone. And he/she lied.

your chart w my corrections:

3000 baths = rent (1500 more likely)

1000 baths = utilities (300 more likely)

1000 baths = clothes

5000 baths = food (100 baht per day max, often 0 as employer buys 3 meals a day)

2000 baths = transportation (few hundred if she has a bike, few hundred a month if baht bus)

500 baths = cellular phone (most of all remaining cash)

2000 baths for the parents correct

Total: 14500 is nowhere near as you seem to think.

everybody makes 4000 to 6000 baht a month here. its that simple.

best of luck, dude!

[soihok]

2000 baths for the parents?

Is that over the year?

Seems a bit much to cram into a month. Still would mean 3 baths a day ,per parent. Lovely.

[sbk]

Non native english speakers often use the spelling baths. Try to be bit more sympathetic to those who are using another language, cheers.

And an insulting post has been deleted. Derogatory comments about member's partners is not allowed. Mind your manners and remember to keep it civil.

[chiang mai]

Nikkoid66,

you are new here, that is very clear. And thats a good thing! You are helping the world and Thai girls in particular. A noble effort. I used to help guys in very similar way, sort of raising awareness and all.

The things is, your numbers are wrong. And your vision about people here helping each other. Only close relatives are helped with cash.

Of course you didnt make up numbers, you got your facts from someone. And he/she lied.

your chart w my corrections:

3000 baths = rent (1500 more likely)

1000 baths = utilities (300 more likely)

1000 baths = clothes

5000 baths = food (100 baht per day max, often 0 as employer buys 3 meals a day)

2000 baths = transportation (few hundred if she has a bike, few hundred a month if baht bus)

500 baths = cellular phone (most of all remaining cash)

2000 baths for the parents correct

Total: 14500 is nowhere near as you seem to think.

everybody makes 4000 to 6000 baht a month here. its that simple.

best of luck, dude!

I agree with your numbers, around 6k a month average.

But just to correct an earlier poster, hotel receptionists at good quality three star (and up) hotels can make decent money since earnings usually include a share in the service charge each month and often includes accommodation and some meals, upwards of 18k a month is not unusual in tourist towns. Mrs CM works for a four/five star in Phuket where basic salary is 10k but service charge easily doubles her salary each month.

[tropo]

I think Amazon coffee employees were on a salary of 5,000 Baht or so.

Just ask to a friend and I confirm that information. How can you live with that much money?

Add 10,000 for a kid? Are you serious?

Regular jobs don't pay over 6,000 per month. They can live well enough on this.

[banglay]

My ex-girlfriend is a nurse at Pattaya Memorial. She makes 1,500 baht per day.

45,000 per month seems very high. My Mia is a top level executive in a nation company and only get 50,000 per month plus expenses. Maybe she should take up nursing lol

I friend of mine is a senior nurse/sister and helps run a ICU unit in BKK ...she get 30.000 bht a month and up to 40,000 a month if she works extra shifts

[Beardog]

A boos of a beauty salon 10-12,000 baht GROSS.

Know a salon girl making 10,000 plus commission (2-5k extra) in a salon. She was educated to M2 level(14 yrs old, second year of high school). Will finish M6 next year after 4 yrs of PT study. Then on to do a distance BA.

Which would result in her earning less than she does now, with the job she got while educated to M2.

Thailand eh. :jap:

She is a very lucky girl Alisa worked as a boss for her own shop & took home about 8,000 baht for 15 hr. shifts & no holidays. Help was paid 5000 baht & we let them shack in the salon to save rent. Pretty pathetic earning rate for Pattaya. After almost 4 months of this I paid her 5000 baht so I could see her again. It was well worth losing 40,000 baht+ to get back to having a girl friend again. Most of her friends still in the hair industry are making 5-6000 baht. That is the usual norm for average wage here. I pay 300 baht a day for help in the small nursery(garden) Help is hard to get in Bang Saray-That is good help. At 300 baht the people that help are good workers. If you try to give less you get less-Rightly so.

Edited August 25, 2010 by Beardog

[Theo007]

Sorry but I have seen some very nice rooms, furnished with air con. and TV for 3,500 baht a month in Pattaya and they are centrally located

[BB1950]

Please remember that the Thai's are not on a permanent holiday while living in Pattaya like western

people are. Your numbers are off in nearly every instance.

Rent is not 5000 baht minimum. Basic apartment s (room + bathroom) which most Thai people will

rent in Pattaya are available usually for around 2500 - 4000 baht and they will share this rent between

2 0r 3 people.

Basic wages are not just 8000 - 12000 baht, many, many Thai people survive on wages between 5000 - 8000 baht.

Hardly any homeless girls in Pattaya, they usually just bundle into a room or go back home if they

can not afford to stay.

Not too many girls working two jobs in Pattaya, considering most jobs are full time there is not enough

hours in the day to include their long sleeping pattern. Actually you will find if a Thai girl has a sponsor

she will not bother to get a job.

I concur with every point mentioned here, 100%. :jap:

[sarahsbloke]

Sorry, I should clarify that my ex gets paid a flat rate of 1,500 per day. She's a contract nurse and not a salaried employee. Therefore, she doesn't receive a set monthly wage. In addition, she averages only five work days per week. Lastly, she has a Master's degree, which I'd assume bumps up her rate.

Doctor at ChiangMai RAM hospital gets 25k a month

Don't believe your nurse wage, have you seen proof, or do you just believe?

My previous gf worked hotel reception in ChiangMai, 7 days a week 9-6, 5000bht. Left school age 12, but spoke exceptional English.

Edited August 25, 2010 by sarahsbloke

[BB1950]

But just to correct an earlier poster, hotel receptionists at good quality three star (and up) hotels can make decent money since earnings usually include a share in the service charge each month and often includes accommodation and some meals, upwards of 18k a month is not unusual in tourist towns. Mrs CM works for a four/five star in Phuket where basic salary is 10k but service charge easily doubles her salary each month.

I had a friend that worked for a 3 star Japanese Hotel in Bangkok and was paid 8000 baht with no extras as a receptionist. My friend changed positions to work as a host in the restaurant. The pay was was reduced to 6000 baht per month, but the tips brought the take home up to over 10,000 baht per month. My friend speaks excellent Japanese and English.

Rent for the room was 4,500 baht/month shared by 2 other relatives.

Water was about 150 baht/month and shared.shared by the 3

Electricity was about 300 baht/month and shared by the 3

2 meals per day were supplied by the hotel.

There was one communal meal per day prepared in the room at a cost of about 200 baht, shared by the 3.

Transportation to/from work was about 30 baht/day. Everything else was within walking distance

Mobile phone was about 300/month

5000 baht/month was sent home to mother

My friend worked 12 to 14 hours per day with 2 free days per month. Most of the free time was mostly spent sleeping, with a hour or two of watching TV.

[chiang mai]

Sorry, I should clarify that my ex gets paid a flat rate of 1,500 per day. She's a contract nurse and not a salaried employee. Therefore, she doesn't receive a set monthly wage. In addition, she averages only five work days per week. Lastly, she has a Master's degree, which I'd assume bumps up her rate.

Doctor at ChiangMai RAM hospital gets 25k a month

Don't believe your nurse wage, have you seen proof, or do you just believe?

My previous gf worked hotel reception in ChiangMai, 7 days a week 9-6, 5000bht. Left school age 12, but spoke exceptional English.

There's too many variables in all of this, size and type of hospital (large small or medium, private or public), role, experience and so on so nurse and/or doctors fees can't sensibly be quoted on an overall basis or average basis. Dr Pataporn (sp) the Cardiologist at CM Ram is almost certainly on substantially more than 25k, his fee alone for an angiogram is 12k whereas his fee for angioplasty is over 50k and he performs several of them each week. Same for the nurses, a nurse at Bumrungrad for example with some form of seniority or specialization is likely to be earning some serious money whereas her counterpart in a public hospital in the sticks wont even come close to that amount.

BTW: I just copied the following from the web where someone asked how much Thai nurses earn in Thailand, this is from 2007:

"Nurse working in Thailand in the Government's hospital works 7 hours/day. The salary will start at the amount of 7,000 baht not pay per hour. The highest saraly is not more than 30,000 baht but if she works in the private hospital she will get 2 times as the above".

Edited August 25, 2010 by chiang mai

[nikkoid66]

Thanks all for sharing all this information, making this thread very interesting to read.

[BB1950]

Answers: the point of this thread is not to debate the wages of bar girls, but the wages of the Girls in general, it may change from one person to another. The girls I speak about are the one that are similar to our western girls, who can write and read correctly, speak English, can use a computer, and have a IA comparable of our western girl. Lot of poor people here, but I don't think we can really have a relationship with someone we cannot communicate with - except in the bed.

I was not debating wages of bar girls at all! Just average Thais. To which you have a misconception.

You have just answered the question that I have been trying all along to get at. You state that speak to girls that are similar to our western girls who speak English and can use a computer.

This means that you do not speak Thai. You are not learning the real truth about average Thais or the Thai way of living.

You are comparing these girls as the average girls in Thailand, which they clearly are not. Yes, I do believe the IQ of these girls are good. They have found some naive fresh bait. Thailand needs more like you right now, but don't be surprised when you start learning otherwise. You have been given warning flags that things are not as you have been told.

I really do think that you need to spend the traditional couple weeks away from Pattaya at your GF's home in the countryside with the family. It will open your eyes more to the real Thai way of life. Who knows, you might learn a little Thai as well!

One last thought, You can take a Thai out of the country, but you will never take the country out of a Thai. You cannot have a relationship with someone till you get to know them. Yes I also agree, you cannot have a relationship with someone unless you can communicate with them, which means with the truth.

[GarryP]

A friend works in the baggage section of Swampy airport. He earns Baht 230 per day, 6 days a week. He also works overtime as often as possible but is limited in what he can get as everyone wants to work overtime. He finished high school. His wife worked in a garment factory and brought home Baht 5,500 a month. She finished Mor 2. These wages are normal. Their rent is 1,800/month in Latkrabang. The wife is now pregnant and has quit work so he is the sole bread winner. They do not share accommodation with others so pay all the rent themselves. Not a comfortable life but livable.

[Thaifan2]

A boos of a beauty salon 10-12,000 baht GROSS.

Know a salon girl making 10,000 plus commission (2-5k extra) in a salon. She was educated to M2 level(14 yrs old, second year of high school). Will finish M6 next year after 4 yrs of PT study. Then on to do a distance BA.

Which would result in her earning less than she does now, with the job she got while educated to M2.

Thailand eh. :jap:

She is a very lucky girl Alisa worked as a boss for her own shop & took home about 8,000 baht for 15 hr. shifts & no holidays. Help was paid 5000 baht & we let them shack in the salon to save rent. Pretty pathetic earning rate for Pattaya. After almost 4 months of this I paid her 5000 baht so I could see her again. It was well worth losing 40,000 baht+ to get back to having a girl friend again. Most of her friends still in the hair industry are making 5-6000 baht. That is the usual norm for average wage here. I pay 300 baht a day for help in the small nursery(garden) Help is hard to get in Bang Saray-That is good help. At 300 baht the people that help are good workers. If you try to give less you get less-Rightly so.

There are just too many hairdresser/beauty shops in Pattaya and rents can be high .My girlfriend ( trained 2 years top hairdresser school Bangkok '' Grace Siam '') .I helped her set up shop in Soi Buakhao .Key money was B80,000 payable every year with rent B7,000 a month .Her profit was no more than B8,000 a month often less .

We now live up in a suburb of Chiang Mai where rent for a far larger shop is B3,000 a month with no key money .She pays a girl to help her and she also trains her B3,000 a month and she gets to sleep in the back room ,with food bought for her as well .My girlfriend now makes at least B10,000 a month ,often more .The main thing is that she is her own boss and can take time off when she wants .

[Samuian]

Exploitation is still rampant, specially in the service and labor sector!

and because of the highly obedient behavior/thought patterns most have no objections... they work and work and work, some 7 days a week for 10-14 hours and more and never complain about the salary of meager 6000-7500 Baht!

Seems they are trained like this, never complain, never stand up!

Which makes a very easy income and an easy to handle workforce for the local owners/entrepreneurs.

In the traditional Massage & Spa business 50% is kept by the shop, a trad. massage usually is 200-250 - so 100-125 for 60 Min. is going into the pockets of the masseuse, doing the actual job.

They have 3-5 Customers per day and are present in the Shop form approx. 10-12 am - to 1-2 am if they treat 5 costumers, they make 500 a day, makes it 36 Baht an Hour!

usually they have 3 which makes it 300 Baht... and there are those days... where the see not one customer, so the average is around 7000-8000 Baht a month, approx. 1000 baht for rent, 3-4000 send home for support and they end up with something like 100 baht a day to live on, and it's normal that they even save from this money!!!!!!!!

Onthe contrary, there are many spa's which have an average of 15 employees that brings them a comfortable 80.000 - 120.000 + a month, doing nothing.... well, yes, paying the rent.

And this applies for 7/11, Tesco, BigC, Carrefour workers, Sweatshop employees, across the board of the working claas hero's world..... go and figure!

The bar/entertainment world is a different thing, BUT it burns the souls of the people involved and yes for 1000's the "golden prince" will remain a dream for ever, they never caught....!

Edited August 25, 2010 by Samuian

[thomo]

A boos of a beauty salon 10-12,000 baht GROSS.

Know a salon girl making 10,000 plus commission (2-5k extra) in a salon. She was educated to M2 level(14 yrs old, second year of high school). Will finish M6 next year after 4 yrs of PT study. Then on to do a distance BA.

Which would result in her earning less than she does now, with the job she got while educated to M2.

Thailand eh. :jap:

She is a very lucky girl

Not really, she is the most hard working and intelligent person I have ever met. She has gotten where she is now through motivation, hard work, and study, and will always continue to progress.

As she said, imagine where she'd be if given the western opportunities of free education to tertiary level, without responsibilities of having to work to provide for her family at 14.

BTW, the salon is not some average salon, was set up by two Toni & Guy stylists who work with a number of TV companies and magazines. And they headhunted her from where she was working on the same road.

Edited August 25, 2010 by thomo

[Thaifan2]

>>Exploitation is still rampant, specially in the service and labor sector!<<

My girlfriend in Chiang mai ,gets to hear many storyies from customers in her hairdresser shop .One local high so with a large house has 5 live in maids (undocumented) from Burma ,who she pays B1,500 a month each .

[nikkoid66]

Exploitation is still rampant, specially in the service and labor sector!

and because of the highly obedient behavior/thought patterns most have no objections... they work and work and work, some 7 days a week for 10-14 hours and more and never complain about the salary of meager 6000-7500 Baht!

Seems they are trained like this, never complain, never stand up!

I can tell that they complain privately, if you complain publicaly you are fired "if you are not happy go back to Issaan taking care of the buffalos". In the USA it is a little bit the same too, with $8/hour for basic work and the bad economy, lot of people are really poor now and have a life similar to some Thai poor people. But if you complain you get fired and if you are dumped in the street and die, no one cares.

Complaining is an European thing, but for most in the world, people shut up, and cry when the light is off.

When you have nothing else, your dignity is your last refuge...they won't show that they are doing bad. A smile can hide a lot of things.

[thomo]

We certainly have an expert on our hands.

[BB1950]

We certainly have an expert on our hands.

Yeah, I can see ...

Edited August 25, 2010 by BB1950

[sarahsbloke]

In the USA it is a little bit the same too, with $8/hour for basic work and the bad economy, lot of people are really poor now and have a life similar to some Thai poor people. But if you complain you get fired and if you are dumped in the street and die, no one cares.

The difference is, nobody is staving in Thailand, food is cheap and plentiful, people share, family will always feed you and provide a place to sleep.

[SantiSuk]

I'm amazed that this thread has managed, or be allowed, to get to 3 pages.

I'll be even more amazed if its still open by the morning.

A Brit retiree's Thai wife I know is employing my wifes sister in law to work on her husbands orchard near Pak Chong.

12 hours = 150 baht.

Sadness

Slave driver, but it's true that in the country people will work like this. My wife's family offered to do wall and garden construction work for me at 150 baht an 8 hour day. I could not in all conscience pay such a pittance and feel good about myself. Even at 250 baht a day I feel slightly like some Victorian mill owner as I see the three of them toiling in the hot sun outside. They seem delighted and they even buy me a beer or low kow from time to time rather than expecting me to buy drinks. I expect some ex-pats here will accuse me of driving up labour prices - sorry but it's about time somebody did.