How much does someone working in a hotel make in Honolulu?
Just a normal job..like a front desk..or someone who adds more towels to a room..that kinda thing. Not like managerial work or anything. Doesn't necessarily be for Honolulu..just somewhere in Hawaii that has a lot of hotels.. just an average pay for something like that.. Thanks!
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Answer 1 :
$10-$12 hour. $8 starting, then goes up from there.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
About Why is Honolulu never included in US studies of commute times (worst traffic)
Why is Honolulu never included in US studies of commute times (worst traffic)?
It's a joke, and not funny. The "worst" one according to their study is Los Angeles with 72 hrs/year stuck in traffic. I know for a fact the typical commuter who works in Honolulu and lives in leeward Oahu would be stuck in traffic at least one hour per day, which would be something like 200 hours per year. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070918/us_nm/traffic_usa_study_dc_1
Honolulu - 3 Answers
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Answer 1 :
It is a lot like Dog years. Forty Years in Honolulu can feel like four years while four years in *fill in your 'favorite urban area' feels like forty years. Therefore 72 Hrs choking on the LA smog is far worse than 200 hours. But yea somewhere Hawai'i gets in the nationals and Hawai'i manages to hover in either the top ten or the lower ten never in the middle on any given statistic be it thong wearing Lesbian Cryptno-Fascist voting for Bush or most enjoyable commutte. Peace er ah Aloha PS // these canned stats are amusing within the same calender year I swear I heard Atlanta had exceeded LA.. Here on O'ahu they usually sneak Honolulu in fifth or eight 'worse' depending on which state is sponsoring the survey...
Answer 2 :
We are not listed because even though Honolulu is the capital of a US state, we don't count as a major city and therefore would not be included in their surveys. I totally agree with you though.....traffic here is terrible! I'm happy I don't have to commute to town every day to go to work! Too many 2 driver households have more than 2 cars and we there is only a small population of carpoolers.
Answer 3 :
Mainland bias, that's why. I'm a "townie" myself so I never have to deal with that much traffic. But I see the "fed-up" in the faces of my co-workers who commute from Aiea/Millilani/Waipahu/Kapolei, they have to be out of the house by 5AM, and they get home from work like around 6PM.
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It's a joke, and not funny. The "worst" one according to their study is Los Angeles with 72 hrs/year stuck in traffic. I know for a fact the typical commuter who works in Honolulu and lives in leeward Oahu would be stuck in traffic at least one hour per day, which would be something like 200 hours per year. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070918/us_nm/traffic_usa_study_dc_1
Honolulu - 3 Answers
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Answer 1 :
It is a lot like Dog years. Forty Years in Honolulu can feel like four years while four years in *fill in your 'favorite urban area' feels like forty years. Therefore 72 Hrs choking on the LA smog is far worse than 200 hours. But yea somewhere Hawai'i gets in the nationals and Hawai'i manages to hover in either the top ten or the lower ten never in the middle on any given statistic be it thong wearing Lesbian Cryptno-Fascist voting for Bush or most enjoyable commutte. Peace er ah Aloha PS // these canned stats are amusing within the same calender year I swear I heard Atlanta had exceeded LA.. Here on O'ahu they usually sneak Honolulu in fifth or eight 'worse' depending on which state is sponsoring the survey...
Answer 2 :
We are not listed because even though Honolulu is the capital of a US state, we don't count as a major city and therefore would not be included in their surveys. I totally agree with you though.....traffic here is terrible! I'm happy I don't have to commute to town every day to go to work! Too many 2 driver households have more than 2 cars and we there is only a small population of carpoolers.
Answer 3 :
Mainland bias, that's why. I'm a "townie" myself so I never have to deal with that much traffic. But I see the "fed-up" in the faces of my co-workers who commute from Aiea/Millilani/Waipahu/Kapolei, they have to be out of the house by 5AM, and they get home from work like around 6PM.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
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Where is a good place to live outside of Honolulu, Hawaii?
My husband and I are recent graduates from Penn State University. We would like to relocate to Hawaii from Pennslyvania. I am in the social services field of work and my husband has a degree in Information Sciences & Technology. I hear it is extremly expensive to live in Hawaii, especially near the state capital. We would like to live near Honolulu and commute to work to Honolulu but live outside of the city. Would that lower the cost of living at all? Where is a good place to live outside of the city? What is the cost of living? How much should we have saved before moving? Any opinions/advice is welcome. Thanks so much! :)
Honolulu - 7 Answers
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Answer 1 :
well if you go on craigslist hawaii you search on oahu you can find every city here BUT the good places to live are waipio/waikele/kunia (the nicer part of waipahu), North shore area, Honolulu is nice too and bigger and closer to town, maybe try looking around manoa area. My in laws family lives in Kailua and they are from Kansas and they LOVE it here. I live in waipio and been living here for 23 years (my whole life) im born and raised here. Rent for me is 1200. But rent can range from 900-2600 or more..Depending who and where you rent/buy from.
Answer 2 :
save at least 10k before you come out, you might not find work too fast or easily. the one above me mentioned Kunia, Waipio and Waipahu, may take over an hour to get to work in Honolulu every morning from those locations just to travel under 20 miles. traffic horrendous in Honolulu.
Answer 3 :
before you leave Pa , make sure you HAVE a job landed before you arrive to honolulu. took my white (haole) wife 1 year before she landed a job.
Answer 4 :
At a minimum expect to pay $1000.00 per month for rent for a studio apartment. There is a few places cheaper however you will have a small bedroom and will have to share a kitchen and in most cases a Bathroom with up to 5 other people. The Pearl City /Aiea area has average rent an close to downtown and further out in Makaha you will find lower rentals but expect a long commute, I would rely on the bus for most of my transportation needs.For a start until you find your way around I would rent a room and share a kitchen. There is plenty of places that you can rent for $160 a week to $700.00 a month that can accommodate 2. Check out the ads in the local newspaper http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/ Type in rooms in the search area.
Answer 5 :
Me and my family just relocated to O'ahu a few months ago and it was pretty rough finding a decent home. We live in the Hawaii Kai area about 20 mi. from downtown Honolulu. We don't plan on staying long so we rent a beautiful home for $4700 a month 4 bdrm. If your looking for something smaller you could find something for less than $3000 mo. East of Honolulu is a little more upscale than the western side of the city. Homes in this area can reach well over 2+ million dollars but home all over the island can break the millions, although majority of them are located on the eastern side. This has to do a little with the landscape. It is more plush with vegetation compared to the western side that is far industrialized and cluttered with homes and business. It also has a serious reputation for terrible traffic and hotter weather. Definitely living outside the city will lower costs of homes. I would strongly recommend searching on the Eastern side though. The traffic, no matter how short of a distance you are from the city, is less severe. Most people are commuting to work from the western side a plus for us. Indeed costs of homes do range a little higher than most on the western side but you certainly do get more for your money, beautiful homes, gorgeous land (vegetation- plumeria trees) and views of Koko head, diamond head, and homes right on the ocean, and not to mention you save a lot on the gas tank =) Good luck with your move and finding the home of your dreams!
Answer 6 :
Nope, living outside of Honolulu does not mean cheaper. Most of my family live in Kailua today. Kailua is not cheap. You could go out towards West Oahu which would probably be cheaper, but you will be pulling your hair out of your head from the drive. Since you are in social services, you might just find work on the West side of Oahu. They need social workers out there. Your husband may be able to swing a job out there as well. It is the newest and growing community on Oahu. UH West is also out that way. Maybe you can swing work and living all on the West side of Oahu which would save you a drive into Honolulu. If you work with Teach for America. The boonies in West Oahu is one of the areas where they need teachers . . . think waianae, nanakuli, maili, makaha.
Answer 7 :
are you white?
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About Honolulu - job after high school
My husband and I are recent graduates from Penn State University. We would like to relocate to Hawaii from Pennslyvania. I am in the social services field of work and my husband has a degree in Information Sciences & Technology. I hear it is extremly expensive to live in Hawaii, especially near the state capital. We would like to live near Honolulu and commute to work to Honolulu but live outside of the city. Would that lower the cost of living at all? Where is a good place to live outside of the city? What is the cost of living? How much should we have saved before moving? Any opinions/advice is welcome. Thanks so much! :)
Honolulu - 7 Answers
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Answer 1 :
well if you go on craigslist hawaii you search on oahu you can find every city here BUT the good places to live are waipio/waikele/kunia (the nicer part of waipahu), North shore area, Honolulu is nice too and bigger and closer to town, maybe try looking around manoa area. My in laws family lives in Kailua and they are from Kansas and they LOVE it here. I live in waipio and been living here for 23 years (my whole life) im born and raised here. Rent for me is 1200. But rent can range from 900-2600 or more..Depending who and where you rent/buy from.
Answer 2 :
save at least 10k before you come out, you might not find work too fast or easily. the one above me mentioned Kunia, Waipio and Waipahu, may take over an hour to get to work in Honolulu every morning from those locations just to travel under 20 miles. traffic horrendous in Honolulu.
Answer 3 :
before you leave Pa , make sure you HAVE a job landed before you arrive to honolulu. took my white (haole) wife 1 year before she landed a job.
Answer 4 :
At a minimum expect to pay $1000.00 per month for rent for a studio apartment. There is a few places cheaper however you will have a small bedroom and will have to share a kitchen and in most cases a Bathroom with up to 5 other people. The Pearl City /Aiea area has average rent an close to downtown and further out in Makaha you will find lower rentals but expect a long commute, I would rely on the bus for most of my transportation needs.For a start until you find your way around I would rent a room and share a kitchen. There is plenty of places that you can rent for $160 a week to $700.00 a month that can accommodate 2. Check out the ads in the local newspaper http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/ Type in rooms in the search area.
Answer 5 :
Me and my family just relocated to O'ahu a few months ago and it was pretty rough finding a decent home. We live in the Hawaii Kai area about 20 mi. from downtown Honolulu. We don't plan on staying long so we rent a beautiful home for $4700 a month 4 bdrm. If your looking for something smaller you could find something for less than $3000 mo. East of Honolulu is a little more upscale than the western side of the city. Homes in this area can reach well over 2+ million dollars but home all over the island can break the millions, although majority of them are located on the eastern side. This has to do a little with the landscape. It is more plush with vegetation compared to the western side that is far industrialized and cluttered with homes and business. It also has a serious reputation for terrible traffic and hotter weather. Definitely living outside the city will lower costs of homes. I would strongly recommend searching on the Eastern side though. The traffic, no matter how short of a distance you are from the city, is less severe. Most people are commuting to work from the western side a plus for us. Indeed costs of homes do range a little higher than most on the western side but you certainly do get more for your money, beautiful homes, gorgeous land (vegetation- plumeria trees) and views of Koko head, diamond head, and homes right on the ocean, and not to mention you save a lot on the gas tank =) Good luck with your move and finding the home of your dreams!
Answer 6 :
Nope, living outside of Honolulu does not mean cheaper. Most of my family live in Kailua today. Kailua is not cheap. You could go out towards West Oahu which would probably be cheaper, but you will be pulling your hair out of your head from the drive. Since you are in social services, you might just find work on the West side of Oahu. They need social workers out there. Your husband may be able to swing a job out there as well. It is the newest and growing community on Oahu. UH West is also out that way. Maybe you can swing work and living all on the West side of Oahu which would save you a drive into Honolulu. If you work with Teach for America. The boonies in West Oahu is one of the areas where they need teachers . . . think waianae, nanakuli, maili, makaha.
Answer 7 :
are you white?
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About Honolulu - job after high school
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
About Honolulu - job after high school
Honolulu - job after high school?
Hi, I know it sounds crazy, but I would like to find a job in Honolulu after I finish my high school (as a gap year - after that I would go to a uni...). I am from Slovakia - EU, and of course I will need some visa - but I would receive my working visa just if I had an employer already before leaving to Honolulu(I don't know if i can work with some other visas, even if illegally :) ) And as I was planning to go to Honolulu and finding a job right on the place( I heard it isn't hard to find a job like a waiter or some other easy jobs...), there's a problem because it's almost impossible to find a job by the internet without having any diploma or anything... So if there is anyone that has some experience with receiving a visa or working in Honolulu in maybe similar conditions to mine, than please give me some advice :) thanks :)
Honolulu - 2 Answers
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Answer 1 :
Well you have heard wrong. Unemployment is high right now, you might have to work at least two jobs. Being a waiter is not easy. We just had three Target Stores open here. Each store only needed about 300 employees, Thousands of people showed up. I have a good friend who is a waitress at the Hard Rock Cafe here hour have gone down severely and when she does work it can be slow (lack of customers). My question to you would be is: Why do you want to live in Hawaii? I find that many believe it to be a 24/7 vacation.
Answer 2 :
Without a visa you can not work in the U.S. Without at least a masters degree (preferably a PhD) in a highly specialized field no U.S. company is going to sponsor you for a work visa. The state of Hawaii is laying off workers. It is tough for Americans with their 4 year bachelor degrees so there isn't going to be much hope for you. My advice is that you travel around a bit for fun and then attend uni. The sooner, the better.
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Hi, I know it sounds crazy, but I would like to find a job in Honolulu after I finish my high school (as a gap year - after that I would go to a uni...). I am from Slovakia - EU, and of course I will need some visa - but I would receive my working visa just if I had an employer already before leaving to Honolulu(I don't know if i can work with some other visas, even if illegally :) ) And as I was planning to go to Honolulu and finding a job right on the place( I heard it isn't hard to find a job like a waiter or some other easy jobs...), there's a problem because it's almost impossible to find a job by the internet without having any diploma or anything... So if there is anyone that has some experience with receiving a visa or working in Honolulu in maybe similar conditions to mine, than please give me some advice :) thanks :)
Honolulu - 2 Answers
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Answer 1 :
Well you have heard wrong. Unemployment is high right now, you might have to work at least two jobs. Being a waiter is not easy. We just had three Target Stores open here. Each store only needed about 300 employees, Thousands of people showed up. I have a good friend who is a waitress at the Hard Rock Cafe here hour have gone down severely and when she does work it can be slow (lack of customers). My question to you would be is: Why do you want to live in Hawaii? I find that many believe it to be a 24/7 vacation.
Answer 2 :
Without a visa you can not work in the U.S. Without at least a masters degree (preferably a PhD) in a highly specialized field no U.S. company is going to sponsor you for a work visa. The state of Hawaii is laying off workers. It is tough for Americans with their 4 year bachelor degrees so there isn't going to be much hope for you. My advice is that you travel around a bit for fun and then attend uni. The sooner, the better.
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Monday, November 1, 2010
About where can you buy Bath and Body Works products in Honolulu Hawaii
where can you buy Bath and Body Works products in Honolulu Hawaii?
I live in Honolulu and whenever one of my friends has one of the Bath and Body Works things they say they bought it in Vegas or something and i really want to have some of the hand sanitizers. also there is no bath and body works stores on the island
Other - Skin & Body - 3 Answers
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Answer 1 :
at Bath & Body Works stores. or the website.
Answer 2 :
does it have to be that brand or can you go to the mall like Pearl ridge
Answer 3 :
Most of the products are available online at bathandbodyworks.com. You might have to pay a bit more to have it shipped, but it is probably going to be the best way for you to buy the products, unless you are planning a trip to the mainland any time soon. (If you are, there is a store locator on the website that can let you know if there are any BBW stores nearby.) Good luck!
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I live in Honolulu and whenever one of my friends has one of the Bath and Body Works things they say they bought it in Vegas or something and i really want to have some of the hand sanitizers. also there is no bath and body works stores on the island
Other - Skin & Body - 3 Answers
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Answer 1 :
at Bath & Body Works stores. or the website.
Answer 2 :
does it have to be that brand or can you go to the mall like Pearl ridge
Answer 3 :
Most of the products are available online at bathandbodyworks.com. You might have to pay a bit more to have it shipped, but it is probably going to be the best way for you to buy the products, unless you are planning a trip to the mainland any time soon. (If you are, there is a store locator on the website that can let you know if there are any BBW stores nearby.) Good luck!
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