DJ Travel Charges

[L33nsta]

Hey,

Whats the going rate for travel charges.

I have come up with this at the moment

First 25kms free. Then $1 per km after that.

eg Suburb 1 - 25kms one way. No Charge

eg Suburb 2 - 45kms one way. Charge of $40. eg ((45*2)-(25*2))*1=$40

I am not sure if this is fair/too expensive. Anyone else got any ideas?

[Lurk6r]

Unless your a well known Dj in high demand, don't do travel charges. Bump up your regular price by $10 and state the maximum area your willing to serivce.

[SourceRaver]

Too complicated for the average punter. Just add an extra surcharge for anything over a certain distance.

[GREMM1S]

Just make it a bit higher if you have travel far or only do local gigs

[SolDios]

Basicly I have a thing that there's a $30 surcharge if you live more than an hour out

[L33nsta]

At $30 have you calculated what it costs to run your vehicle more that 200kms. Eg, fuel, servicing, tyres. And at then your getting nothing for your time spent traveling.

[SolDios]

It's just an estimate, but anymore and it will become abit unreasonable.

a gig is better than not having a gig!

[Lurk6r]

But no gig is better than a shit gig. Stingy people tend to be the most demanding.

[Funky_Steve]

I used to charge an extra $50 per hour travelling time to the gig if it's outside the local area. Being based in Canberra I've done the odd job up in the NSW Snowfields which is 2 hours away, so I charge an extra $100. May have to review (upward) this next time I'm asked to quote for such a gig.

[AlexJ]

get much work in canberra steve?

also, i charge 50c p/km that generally works out well. im generally not looking to make a profit on travel costs. normally will tell people im more than happy to do a gig alittle further away if they will pay for my travel fees

[robbo]

some of the booking agencies in NT, WA and SA do the following for Djs, bands etc now

First 25kms free. Then $2 per km after that.

eg Suburb 1 - 25kms one way. No Charge

eg Suburb 2 - 45kms one way. Charge of $40. eg ((45*2)-(25*2))*1=$40

if the town is say 1200km away they charge that as a rate $1200.00 as travel and the normal cost for shows

that's what I have found out of late

[AlexJ]

$2 a km seems too much too me. but depends on the gear you have.

[L33nsta]

Guys when i said $2 a km I allowed for the 1 km to get there and the 1 km to return.

I was speaking to a colleage tonight and we googled "business charge per km australia" and came up with a few interesting results:

http://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/conte ... /33874.htm

For a large car the ATO allows you to claim back 75 Cents per km.

We all know the ATO, they don't give you back something for nothing.

http://www.racq.com.au/motoring/cars/ca ... ning_costs

This site shows the total cost including loans etc. Worth a read.

[robbo]

As most if they charge $2 a km its one way only

(this way it wont scare the client) or if the town is 235km away

tell them thats your travel charge from Post office to post office thats how the roads dept does it...

plus you paying 1.55c a litre for city wait till you get to a town that charges $1.80c or more for petrol!

and its not about claiming tax dollars (you can do that well after the function)

but you have no idea how to charge for travel - this is what its all about not tax, not wages its travel

go do courier work for 3months and then try and get travel charges from that

the company wouldnt even employ you....

you have to work it all out way before hand if its too high you will be told

if its too low you lose money - when you have sorted out the money (or ring other local dj's you dont know to ask if they would do a show say 300km away in (said town) and you want a rough price on show cost and travel charges, then you might with luck work it out)

but its all on how you want too do it all

[GREMM1S]

All that per km stuff is silly an hr away + 20 or so, 2/3 hours 50 bucks etc etc

[robbo]

well most of the Booking agencies do it that way

so if they do it why not follow suit

you can make more $$ that way

I know works for other jobs too

[GREMM1S]

Seems a bit much though? Granted ive never down house parties other than being asked by friends

[robbo]

thats why I said, like I did a few times, Call a few up and ask how much it would cost (make fake parties)

see what they would charge for travel and then you can get a rough idea..

[GREMM1S]

Depends if you are worried about your own price being too high, because agencies and what not would be charging top dollar

[L33nsta]

Guys I have put my travel charges on my website if anyone is interested.

If it avoids me getting any functions that are more than an hours drive away, then that may not be such a bad thing.

http://www.djdave.com.au/index.php/pricing

I made up a script in excel which takes a list of the suburbs and the distances, rounds the costs for each suburb to the nearest $10 value. Then it sorts it out into the same table layout as you see.

I can then copy the html from excel into my website or paste a copy of the excel spreadsheet directly into my Joomla website backend.

If anyone wants a copy of the excel spreadsheet let me know.