The following information could be useful to diagnose the problem:
- Do you get the message "The customer spent all of his budget on [girl]"? Do you get it very frequently? If not, it could be a coincidence that her performance was worth exactly the customer's (irrelevant because of Elite) max budget
- When she rolls a 6, or when ANY girl rolls a 6, do you ever get the message "The customer went over his budget on [girl] (+XXX gold)" If you never see it, not even on other girls, then perhaps your girls are simply not meeting the customer's expectations.
To elaborate on Elite a bit more:
Normally when any girl rolls a 6 on her performance, the same "ignore budgets" effect is automatically applied. The benefit of having "Elite" is that it also applies that effect when she rolls 1-5. But naturally a lower roll like that will mean a worse performance and thus a lower tip, so to actually reap the benefits of her trait frequently your Elite girl would have to be at least slightly overqualified compared to what the customer was expecting. In other words, I wouldn't expect "Elite" to make much of an impact when you've just started a new game.