So, Dave, are you saying that you take out a different dollar amount each dance
for all of these categories based on what comes in the door on a given night?
If so, I'm having a mind-blowing accounting experience here. Does anyone else
do this sort of thing?
We take out a flat amount each dance for dance organization expenses (which
just about covers all annual expenses for insurance, promo, supplies, etc), the
actual amounts for hall-sound-stipends-guarantees, then divvy the rest up
between performers (80%) and series kitty (20%). Kitty is our safety net in
case attendance income fails to cover our expenses on a given night.
Chrissy Fowler
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> 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.
