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Story by Alan Snel Photos by Hugh Byrne
They came to the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium Wednesday and Thursday, looking for work.
There were openings for stadium parking attendants, ushers, food/bev workers, cleaners and security.
These are sports and concert event jobs at the four-year-old domed stadium, not full-time jobs. The organizations that were hiring were The Raider Image (retail), Silver and Black Hospitality (food/bev), ABM, Parking And Transportation Group Las Vegas (PATG), ASM Global (stadium manaer), and S.A.F.E Management.
To be polite, these are not high-paying jobs. The cost of beers poured by workers is typically more than the hourly wage of the stadium beverage employee.
And during Super Bowl week here in Las Vegas in February, NFL Players Association execs went to the local culinary union headquarters to announce they were going to work with local union leaders to try and get the stadium workers in a union.
LVCVA CEO Steve Hill has often crowed about the jobs created by the stadium. But these game day jobs are special event employment that typically pay a little more than minimum wage.
Interesting enough, the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) — where Hill used to work when University of Nevada, Reno President Brian Sandoval was Nevada governor — released a statement Thursday saying that it approved two companies that will receive $35,321,637 in tax abatements. And in return, these companies are projected to create 272 jobs in the next two years at an average hourly wage of $41.26. The companies are Ingenia Chartam, LLC dba Crossroads Paper and Capital Mining Service.
The Allegiant Stadium game day workers will not earn anything near $41.26 an hour.
But 2,400 people drove to the stadium and found their way on lines and in front of tables for chats and interviews.