Year End Tips for Building Employees

I basically do the same except I give the super 200 and porters 50

How many doormen do you guys have? If you're giving 100 each then what's the total you are giving out? I am new to NYC and honestly this doorman tipping thing is freaking me out... Got a card from the building yesterday and there's 30 building staff!!! if I need to tip even 50 per person then it's $1500!

@CCL3 I usually give around the same to my doormen and porters, except that I give more to the workers who do a great job and who are really friendly. I also give $150 to my super (sometimes more if he's helped us during the previous year).

This is my favorite time of year when I hear that Kylewest gives $75 in cash ($50, $20, $5 bill or 3 $20 bills and 3 $5s?) instead of $80 (or $100!) and nothing to his garage staff.

I always give the porter the same amount as the doormen. Sorting and taking out the trash and cleaning up the messes people leave in the garbage rooms is a thankless job. Come to think of it, he probably deserves MORE than the doormen.

http://ny.curbed.com/2016/12/1/13806684/nyc-holiday-tipping-guide

We give the doormen between $70 and $150, that's based on seniority, how well we know them, what they handle for us, how pleasant they are, etc. We surely wouldn't give a new doorman working on the 3rd shift, that we barely see, the same as a long time doorman working days. Porters, between $50 and $100, based on the same criteria.

Hey Nothing, with a staff of 30, I'm assuming that it's a really large building, that factors into the amount you give. If you're in a building with 300 apartments, and everyone gave $100 to each doorman, that would amount to $30k per doorman. I'd give the doormen $50 and the porters $25. You shouldn't have to spend much over $1,000 on holiday tips, particularly if you're relativity new to the building.

Our building is large and has a very large staff. We tip three of our four doorman $100 each, regardless of their seniority. We don't give anything to the night guy as we hardly see him and he is not particularly pleasant or helpful. We give one of the porters, the one we see the most, $50.. In addition, we give the Super and Asst. Super $150 each.

Our building is large and has a very large staff. We tip three of our four doorman $100 each, regardless of their seniority. We don't give anything to the night guy as we hardly see him and he is not particularly pleasant or helpful. We give one of the porters, the one we see the most, $50.. In addition, we give the Super and Asst. Super $150 each.

I agree with RealEstateNY. I usually do 50 for doormen, 25 for porters. I live in a large building.

i currently live in a very large rental building and give $1,000 that gets split equally between the staff. moving into a smaller coop, and need to decide how to handle that.

My doormen are great, in the past I've tipped $150-200 ea (it's a small building, only 3-4 of them).

On the other hand, the management and board seem pretty inept, and there were a number of administrative and maintenance issues that required constant followups, "reminders", etc, etc, with the overall result being that living in the building wasn't especially pleasant.

It's hard to know how this should factor into tips. For the maintenance issues, the super knew about them, and if you asked him about it he'd usually say the managing agent knows about it and hasn't decided what to do about it yet, so ask them. To some extent that's reasonable, but ideally he would perhaps pester the managing agent to get this stuff done, so I don't have to.

My building isn't that big but the tips as I outlined above are costing us $800. It's just an expensive time of year.

Re: Porters vs Doormen. Yes their job is thankless; harder. So is a busboy but you tip the doorman more.

So is a busboy's but you tip the waiter more

yeah i decided on $100 for FT doormen and $50 for FT porters. I'm still giving super $100 as opposed to $200 because he hasn't done anything special for us this year--when things need fixing we either bring in outside help (it's a condo building) or if its something small one of the building staff takes care of it. The super just basically oversees the staff.

How much do you guys tip the postman?

If the postman has been on at least a year and I have seen his face at least once a month, $40. If everyone in our building gives that amount the postman will get over $5,000, not a bad holiday bonus.

So if the postman is serving 5 big buildings, $25k?

mercer: I doubt the majority of people tip the postman. Also, the postman for our building spends close to 2 hours delivering mail so when you count in the time they spend sorting the mail at the Post Office, and getting to the buildings, I would doubt they handle 5 big buildings, i.e. with more than 100 apartments.

I don't tip the postman. They are federal employees with good benefits, pension etc. I don't really see it as a tipping-type worker.

CCL3, I think the majority of people agree with you and don't tip the postman since weekday deliveries are done when most people are working and at most they might get a glimpse of the postman on Saturday.

My old postman on LI used to violate government law by placing unstamped holiday cards with his address soliciting tips.

>My old postman on LI used to violate government law by placing unstamped holiday cards with his address soliciting tips.

This is appalling. What neighborhood was this in?