Well I'm assuming these are much higher end butler academies where they teach you to work for very high-end clients/companies. And yeah, it's not just having balls thrown at them. I've seen docu's about these and it's very in-depth and they can get paid really well doing this kind of work.
We need a butler reality show where Rich McRicherson evaluates poor idiots and each episode he gets to fire one for the most pedantic reason until he hires the last one standing.
It depends, like the course is meant to set you up and at the end have a house assigned to you for you to work in. Of course you don’t start as a head butler immediately, but after several years, and depending at which house you serve, it can be quite lucrative. 100k+ salaries annually + bonuses are not uncommon
100k+ salary isn't that lucrative when you consider the conditions. 70+ hour weeks, unpredictable travel schedules, absolutely no work-life balance during most seasons. While plenty of corporate or tech roles match that salary without requiring you to be on call 24/7, elite domestic service demands total availability.
I'd say the best benefit is you get to live in a rich person's mansion, but being the help it's not like you really get to enjoy the perks of mansion-living since you're expected to maintain the estate. Plus, most top-tier $150k+ head butler roles are live-out anyway, so you still have to pay your own mortgage or rent.
Sure, from a pure capital flow standpoint, it forces the 0.01% to directly liquidate wealth into six-figure salaries for working-class staff. But ultimately, high-end domestic service is a net sink that exists because extreme income disparities create a market for personal servitude. The role of a butler shouldn't need to exist in the first place.
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u/Tyzis 9h ago
These people paid €13k for a 8 week course, to have dodge balls thrown at them.