Rapid Realty real estate offers cash for tattoos (Picture / YouTube)

A New York real estate agency is helping its employees get ahead by offering staff a pay rise in return for them getting a tattoo of the company logo.

Rapid Realty employees are being offered a quick, if not a little painful, way to climb the pay grade ladder with the offer of a 15 per cent wage increase.

So far, 40 willing staff have taken up their manager Anthony Lolli’s bizarre offer and got inked with the company’s green and black logo.

While cynics may suggest the number may not have been quite so high without the financial incentive, the newly tattooed employees swear otherwise.




‘I think it’s a good opportunity to show commitment to a company that makes going to work fun every day,’ Robert Trezza told CBS New York.

Fellow employee Joseph Tighe added: ‘My wife was a little concerned but I said, you know what, it was the best commitment I could think of.’

The idea came when another loyal staff member rang up the boss to tell him he was getting a permanent work memento.

Each Rapid Realty tattoo costs around $300 (£195) and there is no restriction on where you get the body ink.

Manager Lolli has yet to get a company tattoo himself but says he plans to eventually.