700.00 for a 4 hour birthday here is not a bad take. 800.00 for just sound for a 4 hour wedding during the dry season is not bad either.
See i told you its going to get nasty
mine is bigger than yours thread
i am off to bed again
My thoughts on overtime is simply this, we're there and have no place else to go.
That is a great rate for a birthday party John! Do you get alot of Birthday events and is it at a hall or someones home?
That is a great rate for a birthday party John! Do you get alot of Birthday events and is it at a hall or someones home?
I agree when you're not as well established, your approach is best!
In recent years, I went to a $95 per 1/2 hour OT, but offer the extra hour for $75 to 100 more in the Package.
Its like Costco -- the bigger the box, the cheaper the price (per unit/hour).
Ironic about my idea to get reviews in exchange for free OT.
That was a dumb idea anyway....what was I thinking? (LOL)
Today's a Yelp review was posted by one of my customers (August 16, 2008) ---an event that had only 25 minutes for dancing, and no Overtime was possible! I wanted to stay extra minutes for free, but the venue would not allow even 10 stinkin' minutes of OT.
So from my perspective-- the event sucked a big pole, yet the customer wants to give me a big cyber hug. Looking back, I really hustled my butt off, particularly when the photog tripped my extension cord and pulled the plug on my system, right at the end of the ceremony!
If you're running a business like a business, all your costs should be covered in your base-rate, OT is gravy and shouldn't be counted on, and charging more per hour for it, in the end, doesn't stem from anything justifiable except on the grounds of stroking one's own ego It surely doesn't benefit the client in the slightest to "pay more" for that time. It's just seems too opportunistic and self-serving. My customers are treated and served best by paying the same low rate for one hour of time... Whether it be booked now or at the event. I prefer not to hold their good times and celebration hostage for more money "just because I can."
...To each their own!
What turnip truck did that logic fall from?If you're running a business like a business, all your costs should be covered in your base-rate, OT is gravy and shouldn't be counted on, and charging more per hour for it, in the end, doesn't stem from anything justifiable except on the grounds of stroking one's own ego.
What turnip truck did that logic fall from?
OT is gravy? Labor is gravy? Risk is gravy? Reputation is gravy?
Then again, if one doesn't do anything of value during the first four hours, it's reasonable to assume the fifth or sixth will match it.
For any time over my base 4 hours
if scheduled at contract time $125/hr
if added at the job on the fly $150/hr, but I have refused OT. Once the father of birthday girl (30th bday) kept dropping $100.00 bills on the table asking for time, after 2 hours it was 3:00am I was 1.5 hrs from home, and someone on the other side of the lake was firing a rifle into the air, and I had to be at another job 2 hours away from home by 1:00pm.
Now that thar is sum funneee shtuff.Was it Rick?
Was it Rick?