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Originally Posted by mnortham  Hi Derek -
Thanks for the question. As it involves personnel/payroll data, I hope you can understand why it would be inappropriate to publish compensation numbers for our staff. |
That's what I thought you'd say. ;-)
But, that is also enough information to realize that your staff gets compensated for every submission, not for every placement.
If the submission fee is $1.99 for members... and your "researchers" get 50% for finding the lead... then they make a dollar for every person that submits regardless of whether the submission is even listened to or not by the posting production company...
I'd be interested in hearing about your policies to safeguard against the very obvious fraud that could occur. Where, one of your researchers finds a production in progress, knows the music supervisor and gets him/her to post the position on your site for a split of the compensation (under the table of course), even though the music supervisor has already picked all the music for the production before even posting on your site.
If you get on average around 1000 submissions (just a nice round number, no idea how many submissions you actually get), you make $2000 from the submissions (on top of the subscription fee). Why don't you change to charging $2000 per submission (or however much you make on average per posting), but only charge the person IF their submission is actually picked/licensed for the production?