Payscale

• Caller: $150, plus potential attendance bonus
• Musician: $150/each plus potential attendance bonus, scaling up to a max of 4 band members
• Sound: $100
• Open band leader: $175
• Open band anchor: same as standard musicians
• Open band sound: if only one person is running sound for the evening, extra $40
• Family dance caller / musician: $75 (regardless of whether they're also doing the evening dance)
• Hall manager: $15/session ($30/evening)

We also pay an attendance-based bonus to each performer, which varies based on our financial situation. As of 2024-08-10, we pay $2.00 for every attendee over 120. This has recently averaged $135/performer, with a high of $285 and a low of $0. You can see our attendance range on our graphs page.

For bands with over four people, we pay overall as if for a four person band but divide the total evenly between band members. For example, if there were 200 attendees then any band with 4+ musicians would receive $600 total in guarantees (4 * $150) and $640 total in attendance bonus (4 * $2 * (200-120)) for a total of $1,240. For a four person band that would be $310/each; for a six person band it would be $207/each.

For more details on how we handle the money, see our Attendance and Financials Sheet which we fill out at each dance.