Job Placement · Hospitality · Regional / Multi-Property Dir.
This seat owns GM hiring and firing, cross-property budgets, and brand audits across several flags, authority no single GM holds. The people who have actually run multiple properties for a brand family are usually mid-cycle on equity or bonus vesting that will not clear for months. BEG places this seat in 23 to 35 days on a fixed Tier V milestone fee of $22,640 to $27,168.
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TL;DR
BLS has no separate occupation code for a hospitality regional or multi-property director, so the closest proxy is general and operations managers, a 3.5 million person national code where restaurants and eating places alone employ 164,670, and where the 25th to 75th percentile band, $72,320 to $167,280, brackets this seat more realistically than the full 10th to 90th spread. This search is rarely lost on money. It is lost on timing against someone else’s equity or bonus vesting schedule, and on whether the client has actually budgeted for relocation and travel, while industry GOPPAR sits at roughly 90% of 2019 levels across every property in the portfolio, per AHLA. BEG runs this as a Tier V milestone search at $22,640 to $27,168, about the same as a 20% to 25% contingency fee at the BLS proxy median of $105,770.
Why This Seat Specifically
Because the client needs someone who has already run multiple properties for this brand family and will relocate or travel most weeks, and the people with that exact record are usually retained by equity or bonus cycles that will not clear for months.
Where This Search Actually Slows Down
Four things happen in sequence, and the friction is rarely about whether qualified people exist.
| Stage | What is happening | Where it stalls |
|---|---|---|
| Confirm the mandate is a portfolio, not one more property | This seat owns GM hiring and firing, cross-property budgets, and brand audits across several flags, authority no single GM holds. | A posting that reads like a bigger GM job draws single-property GMs who are not actually ready to run a portfolio. |
| Screen for track record, not job title | No occupation code exists just for this seat, so resumes get measured against general and operations managers, 11-1021, a 3.5 million person code spanning industries from manufacturing to retail. | A keyword search against that title alone pulls candidates from entirely outside hospitality, so the real filter is brand-family, multi-property history, not the title printed on the resume. |
| Find someone already free to move | Advancement in large chains runs from managing one facility to managing several in a region, per BLS, and travel is common with irregular hours. | The people with that exact track record are usually mid-way through an equity or bonus cycle at their current company that will not clear for months. |
| Close on relocation and travel terms, not just pay | The role requires travel most weeks and evening and weekend availability across the portfolio. | A client who has not budgeted for relocation or a travel allowance loses the search here even when the base salary number is competitive. |
This search is rarely lost on money. It is lost on timing against someone else’s vesting schedule and on whether the client has actually budgeted for relocation and travel before the search starts.
Milestone Billing Against Contingency
Contingency pricing on this seat runs 20% to 25% of first-year salary, which against the BLS proxy median of $105,770 for general and operations managers works out to $21,154 to $26,442, close to BEG’s fixed Tier V rate of $22,640 to $27,168. What actually changes between the two models is not the number, it is that a contingency fee keeps moving through the relocation and travel negotiation this search usually involves, while the milestone fee was agreed before that negotiation ever started.
What The Vacancy Costs Meanwhile
At the $105,770 proxy median, this seat represents roughly $2,034 a week of portfolio-level oversight not happening. In practice, brand audits and cross-property budget comparisons fall to individual GMs who already own their own property’s budget and brand standards, stretching people who were never meant to also benchmark themselves against each other. The accommodation and food services quits rate ran 3.5% in July 2026, preliminary, against 1.9% for all nonfarm employment, and across a multi-property portfolio that churn compounds property by property while no one owns the pattern across all of them.
If You Were Searching For An Agency
It depends on whether one property needs a shift covered or the whole portfolio needs someone accountable for it.
| Model | Who employs the worker | How you pay | Right when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly staffing agency (PeopleReady, Instawork, Qwick, Hospitality Staffing Solutions) | The agency | Hourly bill rate for as long as coverage is needed | One property needs a gap covered for a stretch, not portfolio-wide oversight across several of them. |
| Contingency recruiter | You | 20% to 25% of first-year salary, $21,154 to $26,442 at the BLS proxy median | You want no fee until someone starts and are comfortable with the number moving as relocation and travel terms get negotiated. |
| BEG permanent placement | You | Tier V milestone fee, $22,640 to $27,168, fixed at the start | You are filling a portfolio-level seat permanently and want the fee fixed before relocation and travel terms are even negotiated. |
These answer different questions, not the same one. A single property can run interim coverage for a gap while a permanent search runs in parallel for the portfolio seat itself. Full scope on the hospitality placement hub.
FAQ
23 to 35 days from discovery call to signed offer, based on isolved placement data, with an 86% fill rate on active searches.
This is a Tier V search, $22,640 to $27,168, billed against milestones. A 20% to 25% contingency fee on the BLS proxy median of $105,770 would run $21,154 to $26,442, about the same. The fee is fixed either way once the search starts; contingency is not.
The people who have actually run multiple properties for a specific brand family are usually held by equity or bonus vesting cycles that will not clear for months, and the BLS proxy occupation code is broad enough that resume screening alone returns candidates from outside hospitality entirely.
The portfolio: GM hiring and firing, cross-property budgets, and brand audits across several flags, authority no single property GM holds.
There is no dedicated BLS code for this seat. The closest proxy, general and operations managers, has a national median of $105,770, mean $134,940, with the 10th percentile below $50,090 and the 90th above $253,390. The 25th to 75th percentile band, $72,320 to $167,280, is a more realistic bracket than the full spread.
No. BLS has no separate regional hospitality director code. The closest proxy is general and operations managers, 11-1021, a 3.5 million person occupation across all industries, with restaurants and other eating places as its single largest employing industry at 164,670.
No. A staffing agency employs the worker and bills you hourly for shift coverage. BEG places a permanent portfolio director that your company employs directly. If the need is single-property interim coverage, an hourly staffing agency is the right call and we will say so.
The director does not usually hold the certificate personally, but the brand audits this seat owns typically include confirming each property has its required certified food protection manager on staff, under rules like Texas 25 TAC 228.33(a).
Indirectly, yes. A multi-state portfolio crosses very different tipped-wage rules, California requires the full $16.90 minimum with no tip credit at all, while Texas allows the full federal credit down to a $2.13 cash wage, so the audits this seat runs have to check compliance state by state, not against one federal number.
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AHLA reports industry gross operating profit per available room at roughly 90% of 2019 levels because of rising operating costs, and projects the hotel workforce growing past 30,000 new jobs in 2026 toward roughly 2.2 million total. A regional director’s brand audits are what catch that margin pressure at each property, not just one, which is part of why the role exists above the single-property GM.
Both are Tier V searches at the same fee range, but this seat owns a portfolio, one slice of the map, while VP Operations owns the operating model across the whole company. See the VP Operations page for that comparison.
Hiring elsewhere in leadership? See general manager, VP Operations, or all hospitality placement.
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