Top bottle-service girls are making $400K and this boot camp teaches them how

Think it’s tough getting into the Ivy League? Try getting a top-paying job as a bottle-service girl.“Thousands of girls apply, but there’s only 12 to maybe 25 girls max on a [nightclub’s] bottle service team,” said Michelle Kent of major clubs in cities like Miami and New York.Pushing Champagne and top-shelf liquor to high rollers, these women can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.But it’s a delicate art that requires savvy, class, sales skills and getting tipsy clients to keep their hands to themselves.

All while wearing sky-high heels.Kent — a nightlife veteran with decades of experience in the VIP sections of South Florida nightclubs such as Nikki Beach, Opium and Dream — teaches the tricks of the trade over two intensive days at Miami’s Bottle Service Boot Camp.She told The Post there was a real need for it.“Nightclub managers began hiring girls just for their looks and, unfortunately, looks alone don’t translate to sales.

The new girls didn’t understand service,” said the Cherry Hill, NJ, native, 40.“They didn’t even know how to open a Champagne bottle, so they were steering their customers away from the most expensive items on the menu.”After starting off in a staid conference room, the second day of a recent $300 boot camp moved to Miami’s trendy La Otra nightclub — and the students dressed the part, with skimpy leotards, thongs and fishnets.“Don’t ever, ever, ever cover the label of the Champagne bottle with your hand,” Kent told her students.

“The table is paying a lot of money for that bottle, and they want the entire club to see what they’re ordering.”One upsell trick she swears by is telling clients they can only drink Champagne, preferably Dom Perignon or Perrier-Jouet Rosé, on the floor.She knows her stuff: From 2010 to 2020, Kent said, she made between $200,000 to $400,000 per year doing bottle service.“It is one of the few industries where women can earn six figures without a college...