How much would you pay for a performer at your office holiday party?

You don’t know me or my co-workers! We don’t need any more performers here!! XD LOL!

It depends on how long you’re going to play for and how established you are.

How many songs are a few? Besides playing do you do anything else?

An elf with an accordion? Not a dime!

Well I’ve already been hired, and they want to know my going rate. Not playing for long, less than an hour, hopefully. Not established in the slightest. I can probably do ten songs, and the guy said it’s okay to repeat. I don’t do anything else, but I look adorable in my home-made elf costume:)

Who in their right mind would hire an accordian playing elf? Then again, if they’re that nuts charge them a ton.

Lol, ok um 10 songs/1 hour….how old are you?

Oh, I had in mind a half-naked elf jumping out of a cake (I guess a fruitcake might be appropriate), and then stripping. And in that case the answer would depend on whether she was going to do full or partial nudity, and whether individual lap dances and tips would be part of her performance.

Apparently, you and I have different ideas about holiday parties. Yours sounds… nice, also.

Ballpark $25— $40 depending on how many at the party.

$100 mayeb $150.

You’ve got travel expenses and practicing time and really should be paid $200 to $300, but it also depends on what the company can afford.

Places will often pay $300 or so, and then the band has to share it between all the band members. If there are no band members, you get to keep it all. And also, most of your issue is getting there. The amount of time (one hour, two hours) doesn’t matter too much, unless you are tightly booked. So go for it, and negotiate.

It depends on the calibre of the performer. On our local folk circuit, a typical amateur performer could expect to earn £60–100 but that would be for a whole set, at least a couple of hours. More well-known performers playing venues where people pay for tickets would obviously earn a lot more.

For one christmas elf playing a few christmas songs on an accordion I wouldn’t anticipate paying more than £10–20 for the one hour depending on skill and talent.

You don’t want to appear to be elfish about it so accordianing to my calculations, maybe charge on a baiss of about $50 – $75 an hour.

You sleigh me, @janbb.

Will you be naked at any point?? :-/

i would charge $100, which covers your hour, plus getting ready, loading up the car and traveling round trip (which may all take a total of 3 or 4 hours including performance).

@CW I thought of not responding but it would be Rudolph me not to acknowledge your wit.

Lets fire the elf and hire janbb.

You couldn’t afford what I charge! (Oh – that didn’t come out good!)

@janbb exactly what services are you offering?

@Adirondackwannabe “Who in their right mind would hire an accordian playing elf? Then again, if they’re that nuts charge them a ton.”

This hurts my feelings. I have worked extremely hard to be an accordion-playing elf, and I am quite proud of my accomplishments and the joy I bring people in the holiday season. You should really be careful of what you say.

Thanks a lot to those who contributed serious suggestions, I appreciate it and will keep those answers in mind.

I would love to hire an accordion playing dwarf. If you are only playing for an hour, which is not very much, I would suggest $50. Most entertainers have a 4 hour minimum, with 20 minutes breaks required every hour, and they charge around $100 an hour.