How do you get a job working on a cruise ship ? and do they pay more than minimum wage?

Cruise ship jobs are no vacation. Most of them are 10 hours a day, 7 days a week for months at a time. This is why very few Americans work on cruise ships. That said, Americans, especially college kids, do work summers in cruise line youth programs. Basically, all cruise ships have a big influx of kids over the summer, so they essentially need camp counselors. I don't know what these positions pay, but while they probably aren't super-lucrative, they do probably pay better than minimum wage. Also, your costs of living will be really low: food, lodging and uniform will be paid for. But you'll share a room, and you won't have much space. Like I said, it is NOT a vacation. Check out the cruise lines' websites, they usually have employment links.

I was on a celebrity cruise line and got talking to the staff apparently the cleaners and waitstaff only get paid $50 a month and live off tips....... i am Australian so we had to prepay tips $2-$3 a day per staff member that regularly severed us..... the way that the cruise ship gets away with it, if that they don't register the ship in the USA they register in the Bahamas.... this is what a few people told me... also the staff can pick as many tables or rooms as they want to clean or wait so they can make as many tips as they can........ i do not know if all cruises do this, but it wouldnt surprise me, how else would we get cheap prices??