I just got off the phone with my sister. She is doing a Prom through the Talent Agency this Friday night. The prom was only booked at $350 for 4 hours, and that includes lighting effects. She is barely making $275 on it. She took the booking because frankly, she needs the money. This prom is at a rather up scale wedding venue that cost about $2,000 to rent. There will be about 190-200 students attending (it is a smaller private school)
I have quoted on 5 proms through gig masters so far since January. I heard nothing back from any of those leads after following up. All prom quotes were in the $800 - $900 range.
I use to always get at least $650 on a PROM years ago. Actually $650 is the least I ever earned on doing a prom in the past. ...I haven't done a prom in 2 years now.
Personally, I think that $350 is way too low to book a prom for, yet the agency we work with are now booking them at that price point just to get the booking and assigning a DJ to it, or first DJ who wants it get's it I guess.
It use to be that I would KNOW that a middle school dance would pay low, but high school proms generally would book at good rates. Now it seems that Proms are the same as any other school dance in terms of compensation?
Is this what many of you are experiencing with proms in recent years? Are they foregoing spending well for a Prom DJ?
I have quoted on 5 proms through gig masters so far since January. I heard nothing back from any of those leads after following up. All prom quotes were in the $800 - $900 range.
I use to always get at least $650 on a PROM years ago. Actually $650 is the least I ever earned on doing a prom in the past. ...I haven't done a prom in 2 years now.
Personally, I think that $350 is way too low to book a prom for, yet the agency we work with are now booking them at that price point just to get the booking and assigning a DJ to it, or first DJ who wants it get's it I guess.
It use to be that I would KNOW that a middle school dance would pay low, but high school proms generally would book at good rates. Now it seems that Proms are the same as any other school dance in terms of compensation?
Is this what many of you are experiencing with proms in recent years? Are they foregoing spending well for a Prom DJ?