Case Study: Arbor Lodging achieves reduced paycheck anxiety and improved employee retention with DailyPay

Changing Employee’s Lives With a Daily Pay Benefit

Arbor Lodging, a Chicago-based hotel investment and management company with about 1,000 employees across 18 properties, was facing retention and “paycheck anxiety” among hourly staff and needed a low-cost, differentiating benefit. Talent Acquisition Manager Mike Teske evaluated options and selected DailyPay’s on-demand pay solution to give employees access to their earned wages before regular payday.

DailyPay was implemented as a no-cost-to-employer benefit (employees pay an ATM-like fee—example cited $1.99) that lets team members access up to 100% of earned pay, alongside Arbor’s payroll (iSolved, transitioning to UltiPro) and timekeeping (Hotel Effectiveness) systems. The DailyPay solution reduced payday stress, helped employees avoid late fees and predatory loans, and provided a practical budgeting tool that management and the CEO endorsed as a retention-focused, measurable improvement for Arbor Lodging.

Arbor Lodging

Mike Teske

Talent Acquisition Manager