What to Expect as You Begin Your Career
Starkey Certified Graduates can typically expect annual salaries between $50,000 and $130,000, plus benefits and housing depending upon experience and education. Entry-level salaries will depend upon individual backgrounds and salary histories. Graduates from the Certified Manager’s Program can expect beginning salaries from $50,000 plus benefits and housing depending experience and education. Couples can typically expect shared entry-level salaries in excess of $100,000. Additional benefits may include health insurance, separate housing, and various other perks such as a 401K plan, travel expenses and use of a household automobile. The most likely Employers of Estate and Household Managers are high net-worth, multi-home estate owners. These Employers include busy entrepreneurs, CEOs, Public Officials, and those from the Private Investment world and Retired Billionaries. For the Butler-style Household Manager positions are available in luxury hotels and residential retirement communities.
The Day in the Life of the Estate and Household Manager, Personal Assistant, or Hotel Butler is varied according to title, style of service, geographic location, and employment position.
It has been Mary Starkey’s and Starkey International’s 30-year mission to develop a world-recognized service profession in which service is viewed as an art form with its own career path and is seen as an expertise! Starkey International has demonstrated its vision by positioning Starkey services and products to uniquely serve the growing luxury marketplace. Starkey International has made meeting the expectations of the Luxury Employer its first objective. Our educational training and services place specialized professionals into the service industry. These professionals have been trained to identify and organize Service Expectations and to understand the business of Service Management.
In response to employers’ requests for a superior household management service, Starkey International developed a unique Service Management System for identifying and managing Private Service Expectations in 1994. Until then, the accepted training for household service provided only basic technical skills.
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Starkey International provides the key that opens doors leading to the Private Service profession and a career in Household Management; and to experience “Service as an Expertise.” Whether you want to enter the profession as a Household Manager, Service Manager, Private Chef or Butler; or are looking for professional Household Management staff, Starkey International can “Make a Difference” in your life!
To create a world-class Private Service industry in which Household Management, the Service Manager, the Personal Assistant, and the Private Service Butler are seen as an art form; continuing education and growth are valued; and standards of professionalism are recognized, honored and fortified.
The Wall Street Journal tells us that 60% of the people on our planet today are of the Baby Boomer generation. We Baby Boomers, yes I am one of them, are well traveled, expect a good work ethic and superior skills, and appreciate mutual respect in all relationships, especially in service! Furthermore, our service expectations are much higher than our parents. We care about the style of environment we are in, where our food is grown, work to keep our mind and body healthy, like our privacy, and yes, we scrutinize our health care. We consider it our right; we have worked hard to get where we are. (more…)
