Re: [Organizers] Accounting for numbers

Ok, here's how our dance calculates performer and hall pay. Hall is 30%, Performers: 53%, Sound 9.5%, which leaves 7.5% for our dance organization. Out of that 7.5%, we pay all of our other expenses (ASCAP fees, an extra 25 cents per person that goes out to the organization that runs the hall, insurance). We also have a performer minimum of, I believe, $125 each, and a sound tech maximum, but I don't know what that max is. The hall has a minimum take as well, but we never have low enough attendance to trigger that. Not sure of our averages-- we log all of the information, but then don't put it online or make any charts or anything with it, so it would take some digging. My sense is that we have about 125 paying dancers on a typical night, with more some nights (and way, way more some others-- I wouldn't be surprised to see 300 for our Halloween dance with Elixir), and we take in about $1100 on a typical night. This could be a bit off, though, since again, I don't have access to the numbers aside from looking at the log books at the end of each dance. -Dave On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Jeff Kaufman <jeff(a)alum.swarthmore.edu>wrote;wrote: -- David Casserly (cell) 781 258-2761