Klarinet Archive - Posting 000193.txt from 2002/12

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Roger=20Hewitt?= <rogerclarinet@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buck A Note
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:30:55 -0500

--- Jim Lytthans <lytthans@-----.
>
> Actually I did the math wrong. Eight minutes is about 1/8th of an hour
> (actually 0.075%) , so my hourly rate would be about $1500. Thank God I
> didn't teach math all those years. A lotta screwed up kids would have come
> out of my classes! I are a music teacher, I are!
>
> I did the program today. Played my eight minutes and was handed a check for
> $250. Wish I could do that every day..............
>
Jim,

Poor arithmetic indeed:
8 minutes is 13.33333...% of an hour. 0.075% of an hour is 2.7 seconds! $250 for eight minutes
would be an hourly rate of $1875.

Poor arithmetic but jolly good pay. However, you can't just convert it to an hourly rte, since if
you'd played for an hour, you would have had the same overhead of travel & warm-up time. If you
take as an example an hour for travel and warmup, then the $250 would be for 1 hour and 8
minutes, so an hour's playing would be a total of 2 hours, which would work out as $441.18, still
good but you see my point? If you want to count some of the $250 as costs and work on profit
alone, it gets even more complicated, ... but I won't bore you all with that stuff!

Roger H

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