[RipVanWinkle]

Originally Posted by thesteve

Haha...I didn't even think of that, but you raise a good point. My band makes most of our money in merch sales, and luckily we are DIY so we make an amazing profit on t-shirt sales.

Yes...Merch = Money

Originally Posted by thesteve

that being said, the all-ages venues around here pay per ticket sold. Usually you get a dollar per head up to 50 or 75 people and $2 per head after that. The best pay scheme we've been involved in was at the Hard Rock Cafe, where they took 100% of the first 15 tickets sold and the band took 100% after that. We ended up getting 23 people to the show so we made $56 on ticket sales.

And that being said, its typically just the headliner that gets paid (if anybody at all)

[thesteve]

Originally Posted by RipVanWinkle

And that being said, its typically just the headliner that gets paid (if anybody at all)

Well the way ours have been setup is that when you buy your ticket at the show they ask you who you're there to see. That way they get a headcount as to how many people each band actually drew. The headcount payout is based from that ticket count.