Our Rate Information

Hourly Rates | Cab Fare | Minimum Payment | Tipping

 

Hourly Rates

  • $20 per hour non-holiday standard rate per bartender or party helper
  • $25 per hour for Passover Seder (first two nights), Easter, Halloween, Rosh Hashanna, Yom Kippur, the Fourth of July, and any event in the month of December, except Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (the 24th and 25th of December)
  • $32 per hour for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day
  • $37 per hour for New Year's Eve

Cab Fare

  • The client agrees to provide cab fare for each bartender or party helper hired that returns her to the Barnard College campus, which is located at 117th and Broadway.
  • For events outside of Manhattan, the client agrees to provide fare for either public transportation or an independent car service that will take each bartender or party helper to and from the event.
  • Click here to see approximate cab fares.

Minimum Payment

  • Payment must be given for a minimum of three hours.
  • Payment is rounded to the next half hour.
  • We ask that payment be rendered using check or cash for each bartender/partyhelper separately at the end of the event.
  • If travel time to or from the event exceeds one hour each way, the bartender's payment must include the excess travel time as well, rounded to the next half hour.

Tipping

  • A gratuity of 20% is customary.
  • The client may tip at her or his own discretion.

Barnard Bartending Agency | Barnard College, Columbia University | 3009 Broadway | New York, NY 10027-6598
phone: (212) 854-4650 | fax: (212) 854-2188 | email: bartending@barnard.edu