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How Dues Are Calculated for Presenters, Artist Managers and Agents

For Presenters: The Presenters dues scale uses dues bands based upon Total Expense Budgets. Dues will begin at a flat $300 for organizations with Total Expense Budgets of less than $100,000. As the Total Expense Budget amount increases above $100,000, presenters' dues are calculated based upon the percentage of the expense budget spent on artist fees. The higher the percentage within that expense budget band, the lower the dues.

For example:

Mid-Atlantic University Presenter
Total Expense Budget: $1,000,000
Percentage of expenses spent on Artist Fees: 65%
Proposed Dues: $950

If the percentage of expenses spent on Artist Fees was 90%:
Proposed Dues: $850

For Artist, Managers & Agents: Dues are based on total commissions from touring, producing or commissioning. How you calculate this number is slightly different for managers and agents than it is from artists/producers. While managers and agents will simply take whatever their Commissions are (typically 15-20% of the revenue generated by their artists), artists themselves will base their dues upon 20% of their Total Touring Revenue.

For example:

Artist Management Agency, Inc.*
Total Revenue: $1,000,000
Total Commissions: $200,000
Proposed Dues: $1,050

Big Bottle Dance Company*
Total Touring Revenue: $500,000
Total Commissions from touring, producing or commissioning: Take 20% of Total Touring Revenue - $100,000
Proposed Dues: $775

* These organizations are fictional and were created only for informational purposes.

 


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