Butler
Education required for this profession
To become a butler you need to take up a professional butling course from a professional institute. However this is not a must but it is better you do that. There are many aspects to being a butler that you can learn from such institutes. A butler course is different from the Hotel Management courses which teaches people about culinary skills. Butler profession is more to do with management and running tasks. Many butlers learn through experience which is the right way, however doing a course will help you become a better professional.
Relevant Degree/Diploma/CertificateProfessional Butler Course
Quick FactsA butler is a person who runs a busy household with professionalism and people who have studied the art of butling and house management. That is the actual definition of butlers, however today a butler can find opportunities of work in hotels, resorts, bed & breakfast places and many other forms of restaurants and hotels. The butler is actually the chief servant of the household, can be a personal assistant to the employer and some butlers are even trained in book keeping. The common notion that a butler only looks after the kitchen is wrong. A butler looks after almost all the aspects of running the house including house keeping, upholstery, library keeping, small accounts and much more. For huge households and rich societies a butler is a boon because these people do not have the time to run the nitty gritty details of the household.
Salary1 - 4 years experience: $32,772
5- 9 years experience: $78,000