13 May
2008
13 May
'08
9:55 p.m.
For a Friday evening dance, TCD (Durham/Chapel Hill, NC) pays a
minimum of $150/musician up to 4 members, plus $150 for
caller. Additional $ after expenses, shared out evenly. 5 member
bands are either paid same total or are occasionally contracted
separately for a different rate, but it has to be arranged in advance.
Jack Mitchell
At 08:29 AM 5/13/2008, you wrote:
Hi All,
My husband is on this list, while I'm on the caller list... so I am
using his sign-in to post this message.
Our dance committee is revisiting our payout formula and I'm
wondering how other dance organizers work their payouts when the band
isn't the typical trio. (For us, a trio is the standard.) When the
band is a four - person (or larger) group, do you adjust your
guarantee and payout formula? Do you do anything different when the
band is a two-person band?
Currently, we split everything after expenses evenly across all
performers (band and caller), when the band is comprised of two or
three members. If the band is a four-person band, we pay our
guarantee, and then we split the overage 75% to the band, and 25% to
the caller. Our thought in doing this was not to "penalize" the
caller for working with a band greater than our standard of trios.
I am looking for feedback on our existing payout formula and for an
understanding of how other groups operate. I plan to bring any
feedback generated from this list to our next dance committee meeting.
Thanks!
Nancy Turner
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