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Airbnb Living Wage Pledge!! (what it is and what hosts should do) - YouTube
Channel: STR University
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Hello my YouTube friends its richard
founder of short-term rentals
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secrets.com and Airbnb super host on
today's segment we're bringing you
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updates that Airbnb is just released as
it relates to the living wage pledge
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what does it mean for you as a host what
does it mean for a guest and what does
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it mean broadly let's turn to it so what
is the living wage pledge you know it's
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kind of important and it's also
happening in very many industries right
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now and it's basically think of it as
like a minimum wage Airbnb is trying to
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get US based hosts to pay the cleaning
support team what they call a living
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wage and they've determined that that's
$25 per hour
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if the cleaner is self-employed ie
they're an independent contractor they
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work individually or $15 an hour at a
minimum if they work with a company and
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they have other benefits so in order to
encourage adoption of this measure
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Airbnb is gonna put a filter so that
guests searching for properties in the
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United States can look for properties
that are living wage pledge you know
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supporters just like you can filter by
instant book only I guess now and we'll
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wait to see maybe you can sort for
instant booking and living wage at the
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same time or one or the other and I
guess the question is what should you do
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and how do I feel about it
and whatever you do is your own personal
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thing I don't think that very many
people are gonna be searching for the
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living wage pledge hosts I just I don't
see that as important it is it is and as
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much as everybody believes in it I just
don't see people's choosing to stay in a
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different neighborhood in a different
place just because they do living wage I
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could be wrong and it would be really
nice to think that America is that
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concerned with everyone else I just
don't see it today but what should you
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do about it and what am i doing about it
well I personally like to over pay my
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cleaning team and the reason I like to
over pay my cleaning team is that I need
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them I need them for same-day turnover I
need them during good days I need them
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during bad days I need them during
inclement weather when it's raining I
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need them to prioritize my cleaning so
that I can run my business and the way
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that I can ensure that is one be a great
employer meaning like I'm friendly I
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give them advance notice I check in with
them I care about them and their welfare
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and their well-being and I pay them more
then other people pay them for the same
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service so I don't know that $25 as a
blanket statement is the right amount I
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mean for instance the cost of living
there's a cost-of-living index and the
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cost of living in pick a variety of
cities New York cities is high probably
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Cincinnati is lower it's New York City
better to live in than Cincinnati no but
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is it more expensive my guess is yes all
I'm saying is to say it's $25 flat
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across the United States seems to me
like it's missing a lot of variables
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such as cost of living so what I'm gonna
personally do is look at it take a look
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at what it is that I'm currently paying
I'm probably at or near that but if I'm
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not I'm gonna reevaluate but I'm not
doing it for like that booking of the
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pledge I'm doing it because it feels
right and I want to support it and I'm
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probably pretty close net net I think
what this does is it drives the cost of
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transactions on Airbnb higher ultimately
I've been a big advocate of charging
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cleaning fees there's month many videos
I've filmed and Q&A is that I film that
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say charge of cleaning fee it's only
fair whether you're doing it yourself or
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you're employing other people you should
be charging a cleaning fee if Airbnb
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sets the standard and let's just assume
that this gets widespread adoption and
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everybody wants it and the filter
becomes really important and so the new
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cleaning level in America is $25 an hour
guess who's gonna pay that the guests
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because we're gonna pass that through to
them stays per night become more Airbnb
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becomes less attractive relative to a
hotel and we'll see how that all plays
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out in the meantime take a look at what
you're charging for a cleaning fee to
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your guests if you're not using one use
one make sure it's fair if you are
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charging a cleaning fee and or using a
maid see what you're paying them make
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sure it's a living wage for your
community and if it's not a living wage
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if it's like too low go ahead and raise
it pass it on to the guests we want
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everybody to thrive in this growing air
B&B economy and community and I think
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it's only fair and right so I hope you
found this video helpful if you did
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please go ahead and like it if you have
comments or you have your own
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suggestions I'd love to hear your
feedback and in the meantime
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