Been doing banquets but kinda get out of it.
I work for 2 hotels in banquets and sadly they don't pay much. I was told since I am living in LA, I should be making $30+/hr on banquets. My one hotel pays $21/hr flat rate and sometimes they offer overtime but they also put you to so housemen work since they don't have enough people.
The other one is $15.50/hr + gratuity but the gratuity is not being split equally. 985
Basically the more hours you get, the more of a percentage you receive and at the end the housemen make more since they are both servers/housemen and they work on days the hotel has no serving work.
So yeah I think for LA those wages are low and also the whole on-call thing is inconsistent. Sometimes I get schedule at both hotels on the same days/hours and I have to call off from one. I am not sure if working at some actual restaurant would be a better path. 985