Ride Host Question

I was wondering how many hours a week on average a ride host works, and also about on average how much a ride host will get in their paycheck a week?

How many hours a week will you really work? It'd be nice to work a lot, but is it really likely that you'll get lets say 50 hrs a week? I've heard that you usually only get 40-45 hrs a week, and I want to work a lot more than that..... *** Edited 4/1/2006 7:37:33 PM UTC by cpcoasterfreak***

About 40-75 hours per week depending on staffing at the ride. That will get you a paycheck of between $180-$350 with Cedar Points rate of $6.25 an hour.

Don't forget about the bonus. $1.00 for every hour worked, if you complete your contract.

MrScott

It's not really a bonus, it's an excuse to keep employees there.

I usually averaged around 65/week. The most I remember seeing on my paycheck was 69.1 hours.

I hit 80 twice (once in May and once in August) but most of the time I was at 40.

I'm always at like 55-75 hours!

ForgottenEE said:
It's not really a bonus, it's an excuse to keep employees there.

Yeah, but if you get it, it's basically a random $1,000 check you get post-season.

Which, as I said before, is a bonus. How can you say it's not ForgottenEE? Regardless of the reason for it to be in place, it IS still a bonus.

MrScott

I guess your right MrScott.

I just don't like the way it's implemented.

I remember when Artem worked 90 some hours and they sent him home because they didn't want to pay him that much, he just kept picking up shifts. I would average 55-75 hours as well. And you usually maintain that amount all season, because in the beginning of the season you you work more O-C with the park open less, and hte middle of the season with not many O-C but more park hours. I'm curious how much less I will make with the new park hours.

this will be so good!! i want lots of hours....i already have my hours at raptor and then tracy and I shotgunned extra hours at Demon!!

PS...TRACY COME TO RAPTOR!!!!!

I typically worked between 50 - 60 hours a week. I could have worked more but I arrived in June last season for one, and secondly Snake was one of the last rides to open so I didn't have to be there until after most of the other ride ops had already started working.

I got up to almost 90 hours one week... and we had one girl on our crew that was a glutton for hours, so if we didn't really want to work one day... she'd always take the hours. She worked 80 hours a week every week.

I like to think of my Bonus as my CP tax return.

Yea so if you get fired on the last day does your bonus go bye bye? haha that would suck

Yes.

Yep, and people lose their bonuses of over $1000 by getting fired near the end every year.

I averaged like 55 hours per week last season, mostly because I kept trading away my shifts to people who wanted to work O-C's, so I got fun splits (um.. 11:30-1:30; 6-8 anyone? That was the best)... REALLY wish I wouldn't have done that though, my bonus could've been so much better!!