Vail Resorts to $20

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whats the source for this?

Mar 14 2022 4:47PM

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Wouldn't be at all surprised if they make some bullshit like only offering certain benefits to full time employees but then hiring only part timers at a cap that is one hour less than full time.
Or they could just continue to operate dangerously understaffed knowing that they will profit just as well regardless of how the "skier/guest experience" suffers.
Or they will continue to fuck the housing market of the towns where they own resorts without consideration for where there employees will live or if the pay increase is even sustainable for someone to afford rent and groceries.

I still say FUCK VAIL but at least they have bumped their minimum pay rate.

Mar 14 2022 4:51PM

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Bout fuckin time.

“oh no we can’t find any employees to work at our resorts”

yeah bro cause I’d have to sell Perc’s out the staff housing, just to be able to work at your resort and afford living near there, ffs.

Mar 14 2022 4:54PM

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I don't deserve $20 for my part time park crew job on the east coast...

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TOAST.I don't deserve $20 for my part time park crew job on the east coast...

Where I live, working full time at $20/hr is barely enough to pay rent and cover basic living expenses for most people.

Mar 14 2022 6:37PM

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Dude min wage should be like 28 a hour if it kept up with inflation. Dont sell yourself short.

TOAST.I don't deserve $20 for my part time park crew job on the east coast...

Mar 14 2022 6:43PM

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Why the fuck did they fight so hard against this shit for so long then?

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TOAST.I don't deserve $20 for my part time park crew job on the east coast...

Sure you do. The dollar isnt worth what it used to be, and billionaires make gazillions by not doing much of the actual work.

...you should probably be making 30$ an hour if we are honest.

Mar 14 2022 7:24PM

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I guess they want to count on people showing up for work

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snowfinderDude min wage should be like 28 a hour if it kept up with inflation. Dont sell yourself short.

When we are actually doing work or park sets sure 20 isn't too much but lapping the park 75% of the time for 20 is a lot haha. I'm more worried that they will start having us swing chairs between rake runs, in which case I'll go back to 10/hr since it's not the job I rely on for my income. It will hopefully help us retain some of the full time guys which will be sick and the dudes that have been grinding it out for shit pay will be happy.

Mar 14 2022 9:16PM

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snowfinderDude min wage should be like 28 a hour if it kept up with inflation. Dont sell yourself short.

Skill-less jobs do not deserve 28 an hour, that being said, the ski industry deserves a lot more than they get

Mar 14 2022 10:21PM

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TOAST.When we are actually doing work or park sets sure 20 isn't too much but lapping the park 75% of the time for 20 is a lot haha. I'm more worried that they will start having us swing chairs between rake runs, in which case I'll go back to 10/hr since it's not the job I rely on for my income. It will hopefully help us retain some of the full time guys which will be sick and the dudes that have been grinding it out for shit pay will be happy.

You should never complain about being overpaid by a large corporation that makes millions in profits.

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eheathYou should never complain about being overpaid by a large corporation that makes millions in profits.

Not really complaining about getting paid more. It's more the fact that I don't want more responsibilities while I'm there working since sometimes the only days I have time to ride during the week is when I am working. I thoroughly enjoy working park crew and maintaining features but if I have to start swinging chairs I'll probably stop. Again this isn't what I rely on to live.

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CrunnchyPissFartbeautiful example of how discourse = positive change

I just hope that because of this they dont strip away discounts or certain employee benefits to balance the cost tho

I also hope that the owner of my resort sees this and quits trying to run a small midwestern resort like vail and also pays employees $20

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I think it was just their plummeting stock price that caused this personally, but I like to think that the discourse helped too.

Mar 14 2022 11:19PM

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BigPurpleSkiSuitI think it was just their plummeting stock price that caused this personally, but I like to think that the discourse helped too.

Totally, all pieces of the puzzle, just glad and grateful this is happenin, love for my fellow resort employees

Mar 14 2022 11:32PM

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Vail as a company makes like an 8% return annually. This last season they lost around 40% of their staff and still operated full bore. Pass prices and staffing will be changed to assist in all of your trust funded ideologies of earning the same as the underpaid skilled trade workers. A single class of equally unmotivated/unskilled/miserable workers is well on its way.

Mar 16 2022 8:45PM

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With Katz and Vail, apart from inflation, there's always a catch.

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TOAST.I don't deserve $20 for my part time park crew job on the east coast...

But a parasite on wall-street looting the economy, producing shit, piss and garbage, deserves millions? Don't put yourself down so much, I now you, you deserve 20/hr.

Mar 16 2022 9:09PM

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qazwsxedc34With Katz and Vail, apart from inflation, there's always a catch.

qazwsxedc34But a parasite on wall-street looting the economy, producing shit, piss and garbage, deserves millions? Don't put yourself down so much, I now you, you deserve 20/hr.

You really seem like you know what you're talking about. Even if Rob Katz has not been at Vail since before the season started and has nothing to do with this announcement.

Mar 16 2022 9:12PM

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No.QuarterWhere I live, working full time at $20/hr is barely enough to pay rent and cover basic living expenses for most people.

Exactly, and with inflation you'd have to sow seeds just to eat. Raise wages in relation to inflation on a schedule so that 10 years down the road we aren't making the equivalent of what in 2022 was 6 dollars an hr. which looks like 20 dollars an hr but isn't. But it's a free market and empoyers can do whatever. I just don't like the mentality that people don't deserve 20 dollars when absolute parasites and political grifters who enrich themselves off your taxes, make 1000+ dollars a day.

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snowfinderDude min wage should be like 28 a hour if it kept up with inflation. Dont sell yourself short.

I coomed. Yes, try to be an indepedent contractor. If you are under contract for someone, or some corporation, half the time they give you less than 28 dollars an hr., which is absurd because as an indepedent contractor you pay substantially more taxes. Just to survive, an IC should be getting 38+.

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DingoSeanWhy the fuck did they fight so hard against this shit for so long then?

Because they realized they could raise min. wage when inflation increased, that way, when the dollar devalues each month, you'll eventually have the purchasing power of a a 2008 dollar but think you're getting 25 dollars an hr. "Hi, how much for that piece of bread?" "That'll be 40 dollars sir."

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partyandBSYou really seem like you know what you're talking about. Even if Rob Katz has not been at Vail since before the season started and has nothing to do with this announcement.

He has, he still has stock in the company, he just raised a long time underling to the status of CEO. Vail is still a corporation and profit comes before employees. Apart from inflation, there will be a catch, they should electronically make it so that your wage is attachhed to inflation to sustain the purchasing power of 20 dollars from
this point forward.

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Icant_kfedSkill-less jobs do not deserve 28 an hour, that being said, the ski industry deserves a lot more than they get

Grueling work of farming and gathering produce, deserves 30 dollars, period.

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This is the best thing to happen to shit faced 19 year old weed dealers in a long time

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qazwsxedc34Grueling work of farming and gathering produce, deserves 30 dollars, period.

Without a doubt, but someone who can’t figure out how to make a burger without ketchup doesn’t deserve 15 nevermind 30

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Oh sick lets raise everyone's ticket prices again.

WHAT A BRILLIANT PLAN. LOL @ppl who ride Vail. Shitty mountain biking too.

Mar 17 2022 9:04AM

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I will never understand the blind hate towards people that just want to afford to be alive.

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snowfinderI will never understand the blind hate towards people that just want to afford to be alive.

"This old lady has a problem with her leg and she is getting 400 dollars a month for social security. What a parasite... this is from MY taxes!!!!!!!" (it isn't) .... but don't ever speak out against those wall street parasites and congressmen grifting off your dime and getting government pensions.

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VTshredder69Oh sick lets raise everyone's ticket prices again.

WHAT A BRILLIANT PLAN. LOL @ppl who ride Vail. Shitty mountain biking too.

To be fair they reduced season pass prices last year even after bumping their minimum wage. If they had cheap day passes on top of cheap season passes the already crowded resorts would be even more crowded.

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qazwsxedc34"This old lady has a problem with her leg and she is getting 400 dollars a month for social security. What a parasite... this is from MY taxes!!!!!!!" (it isn't) .... but don't ever speak out against those wall street parasites and congressmen grifting off your dime and getting government pensions.

what?

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snowfinderwhat?

The divided plebians often like to compain about their own class and do not lift a finger against the 1% parasites. The amount of times I've heard upper middle class electricians say that the US should stop spending because their in debt (to them self; which they can't be) or that social security disability comes from their taxes (it doesn't) so the old lady with a bad back should just shutup and die, is an often occurrence. All this while scumbag politicians with fake jobs retire at the tax payers expense, bankers shyster, billionaires hoard,
offshore and price gouge and the poor get poorer. Wallstreet would have to be glassed for anything to change at this point.

At least there's NFT's and digitial hologram coins for the kids to gamble with.

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Surprised no one has mentioned the slim $1/hr difference between the stoned fry cook, and the patroller hucking bombs at 6am in a blizzard. I sure hope it's not that close. Otherwise what's the point for the added risk and liability to be a patroller.

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HypeBeastSurprised no one has mentioned the slim $1/hr difference between the stoned fry cook, and the patroller hucking bombs at 6am in a blizzard. I sure hope it's not that close. Otherwise what's the point for the added risk and liability to be a patroller.

ski patrollers doing avalanche mitigation are not getting paid their min wage. The new, less experienced patrollers will make 21. Not trying to defend vail, just presenting facts.

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eheathski patrollers doing avalanche mitigation are not getting paid their min wage. The new, less experienced patrollers will make 21. Not trying to defend vail, just presenting facts.

omg eheath is such a vail simp BAN EHEETH

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OH COOL LETS JUST RAISE TICKET PRICES EVEN MORE. BRILLIANT ECONOMICS

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VTshredder69OH COOL LETS JUST RAISE TICKET PRICES EVEN MORE. BRILLIANT ECONOMICS

imagine being such a gaper that you buy day passed

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HypeBeastSurprised no one has mentioned the slim $1/hr difference between the stoned fry cook, and the patroller hucking bombs at 6am in a blizzard. I sure hope it's not that close. Otherwise what's the point for the added risk and liability to be a patroller.

I hate that this is the first argument people go for.

Should just stay making 14 so there's a 2 or 3 dollar difference.

Patrol was already boned making like 16 everyone at vail was making 15.

Wage compression is a real thing but everyone needs to fuck off. This is a good thing, impressive with how negative everyone has been.

I didn't post as much in this thread, but i was talking about how good it is for the industry, how all the wages are going to go up.

Altera is about to go 20. A bunch of mom and pops are going to raise up.

Right now many of these places in ski towns could not open without j1s. There's a valid argument about seasonal work but a lot of people work season jobs in ski towns outside of ski resorts.

You just can't live in these towns on 12 an hour (3 years ago) or 15 last year or 2 years ago.

If you work 40-50 hours a week you should be able to pay rent and buy groceries. Otherwise it's a bullshit wage.

I don't get all the "some stoned liftie shouldnt make 20?" Arguments. Who cares. Mtns have been closing because they can't staff lifts, mtns have been keeping good terrain closed because they cant staff lifts.

This is even good for the rich fuck who hates everyone and demands all his favorite runs are open when he goes skiing.

The free market people also come out with their shot argument about the market deciding whats right. But then skip over that fast food and gas station jobs, pretty much all jobs in ski towns other than ski resorts have been increasing wages to staff jobs. Aka 12 was a bullshit wage.

Idk

Sparknotes: Everyone needs to chill out, this is good for the ski industry. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a kook.

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VTshredder69OH COOL LETS JUST RAISE TICKET PRICES EVEN MORE. BRILLIANT ECONOMICS

Imagine people being so stubborn about anyone getting a fare wage that they would rather have terrain closed for lack of employees, or have the mtn actually shut early for the season than somebody being able to buy groceries in a ski town.

This us verse them shit is half the reason our country is so beat. There's always some other, somebody lower than us or different and every problem is their fault.

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It's good because on one hand, it puts other employers in ski towns that aren't VR entities in a position to bump their pay, take care of current and returning staff, and try not to lose good help to resorts.

$20/hr or more is still unfortunately just not enough for the current state of COL in a lot of places VR owns properties. PC is a brutally atrocious market....my coworker is paying almost 2k/month for a one BR with his girlfriend in whats considered "affordable" housing. Its fucking gross. People are taking advantage in ski towns and its a bummer to see. Fuck you slumlords and fuck anyone cashing in on it as well. A paycheck is still a paycheck but also fuck you.

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theabortionatorImagine people being so stubborn about anyone getting a fare wage that they would rather have terrain closed for lack of employees, or have the mtn actually shut early for the season than somebody being able to buy groceries in a ski town.

This us verse them shit is half the reason our country is so beat. There's always some other, somebody lower than us or different and every problem is their fault.

you sound poor

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VTshredder69you sound poor

Your username implies your from Vermont. Your whole state is poor lmao.

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gotta love kids who want good pay for shit jobs. HAHAH

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VTshredder69gotta love kids who want good pay for shit jobs. HAHAH

Gotta love resorts not being 100% open because they can't find enough staff to work for their shit wage.

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TOAST.Gotta love resorts not being 100% open because they can't find enough staff to work for their shit wage.

oh man gotta love people who live by the out of bound ropes. LOL

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I say fuck vail and fund pns they have done nothing but good for timberline and pns is still corporate but it’s America. America is corporate. I firmly believe even if they see the money they will do what’s right for skiers. They have an anti vail mindset too. Would u turn millions of dollars down like pns did. The world is a greedy place humans want more and will always, some just have the self control to do and think what is beyond it.

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VTshredder69oh man gotta love people who live by the out of bound ropes. LOL

Yup, gotta love how people till don't use garden tillers to push them up the hill. Wtf is gravity. Yolo

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