My Life

Thank you so much for the kind words!

And though this message is for sure old, i can't help but find it still relative considering the last year and what we have all been going through.

Keep up the PMA, and random acts of kindness like an encouraging message on table for no other reason than to gas someone up! its a character trait i think everyone enjoys :D

Hows it going!

Firstly, id like to apologize since i genuinely have not been on tumblr in a few years, so i hope you got the gig!

Alright lets get to it the, huh!

The income varies from artist to artist and so there will never be an agreed upon salery. However there is a ballpark on how much you should be making in correlation to how much merchandise the artist sells and how much you work.

To overly simplify everything, if you are very good at your job and the artist you work for is selling out shows and making about $6 a head, then i would say this should be the range of what you should be getting paid.

300 - 500 cap rooms: $700-$900 a week.

600- 1,000 cap rooms: $1,000 - $1,200 a week

1,250 Cap & higher: Totally dependent on way to many variables.

Hope this helped, again this is sooooooo loosely speaking and should not be taken as anything but a soft recommendation.

As for warped tour (RIP), the length of the days has little to do with the pay. I believe pay should be determined by just how much work you're doing. On warped some artist are small and just starting and so they don't really have massive sales and because of it, it wouldst be uncommon for the merch person to have a good amount of downtime, and so it would be unfair for the artist to pay them large sums of money when all they're doing is sitting in a tent listening to live music and chatting with friends.

Again, this is an over simplification, and I'm not saying you should be making $300 a week on warped tour, but im also not saying that because you work 8am to 8pm that you should be making $2,500 a week to just sit there.

Ill try and go back to doing this every now and then so if you have questions just click on the top left thing then click on the other thing, but no promises. Tour can keep me rather busy

My camera is always on Manual. I change the shutter, Iso, etc. constantly. 

Everyone has a different story & different ways into how they landed their job as a merch person.

I got lucky and one day somebody just asked me if i wanted to do it for their bad & not knowing what it was i said yeah. Now with social media i feel like a lot of more people pursue the career & so its a little saturated.