Seth and others,

I would assume it depends in part  on what you are asking of them during the weekend. So please add that to your descriptions for increased usefulness. Thanks 

Claire Baffaut (in Missouri)

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 21:08 Jeff Kaufman via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
My since-resuming weekend bookings have been $600 $650 $800 $800 $900 $900 (+ travel, meals, housing).  None of these were local.  Lower numbers are generally smaller weekends where we were willing to play for less than our usual rates to help them out.  Older data: https://www.jefftk.com/p/how-much-do-dance-weekends-pay

Beantown Stomp (pretty sure, but this was my first year not as a main organizer so I might be wrong) guaranteed $550 + profit sharing, which turned out to be $866.  Everyone was within driving distance.

Jeff

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 9:24 PM Tepfer, Seth via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hello organizers

I've been having conversations with other organizers and talent about pay at dance weekends. Our conversation started with talking about our local contra dance weekend, and moved to a discussion about the local ECD weekend. Then the discussion expanded to several musicians who make their living as musicians, often at contra or ECD weekends.

We learned that our contra weekend was paying at the low end and that several musicians were not interested in coming to play for our weekend because we were not paying enough. 

We are curious about what different weekends pay? Do you pay different amounts for the headlining band versus a second band? What if one of the bands is a local band? Is there interest in creating a document to share this information? I know that some places don't like sharing money information.

I'll start.

In 2019, the Atlanta contra dance weekend was paying $700 / musician or caller, all meals, travel expenses, and housing (generally stay with a local dancer who has many bedrooms). When we found out we were on the low end, we raised our rates to $800/per. 

Seth

Seth Tepfer, MBA, CSM, PMP (he, him, his)

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