Q & A
Each month, MusicBizAdvice.com answers your questions about the music industry.
Here we discuss concert promoters' salary ranges, as well as factors that
determine someone's potential for success in concert promotion.
How much does
the average concert promoter make per year, and how hard is the course of
study?
Q. Hey, I want to know how much the average concert promoter makes per year.
Also, how hard is it [to] take the course in college? [Letter unsigned.]
A.
There's no average, and the range falls from negative numbers to millions.
Like all music industry jobs, it depends on the level of artists the concert
promoter works with, the location, and what a given market will bear. (The rise
of the large corporation mega-promoters over the past ten years has made it
very difficult for new promoters to break in.) Because the promoter assumes
all the financial risk in putting on a show, it also depends on how
successful the promoter is at negotiating with the vendors of products and
services needed to make it happen.
It also depends how successful the promoter is at creating sold-out shows,
and the strength of his or her work ethic; the harder and smarter a concert
promoter works, and the better his or her instincts about an audience, the
more successful he or she is likely to be. Given your screen name, the huge
number of spelling and punctuation errors in your letter (it's called spell
check, Dude), and given your question about how hard the course is...it's
difficult to say.
As for how hard the "course" is, it's a 4-year degree program, not just one
course, and it's reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally, really hard. Like rocket
science! You practically have to be a member of MENSA to master it.
Good luck!
Randi Reed
Editor-in-Chief
MusicBizAdvice.com
(Sorry, Readers with good work ethics...If you saw this person's screen
name, you'd answer the same way.--RR)
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