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Feedback please from experienced resident djs regarding pay:
1. On how to negotiate with bar/club owner re holiday pay bonus,
2. Snow has slowed down business lately - what is the norm so far as pay for the nights when bar closes early on slow or bad weather nights?
I work six nights a week at this one bar/club (for about 9 months now). Back in Oct, I had asked for bonus pay for three holidays: Halloween, Christmas Eve and New Years Eve. At the time - the owner basically laughed -in that no one else on his "staff" gets extra pay on those big event nights (bouncers, etc).
Pay on the nights weather closed us early: My pay was turned into hourly pay for the amnt of time I was there (which had never been discussed) - the lead bar tender said she was told by the owner to pay me out that way. Also one night the owner called an hour before I was to show up and said he was not opening at all because he thought it was going to be slow - I got no pay at all.
Is there a standard that I can bring to the table with the owner regarding these issues. I've been a resident dj at 3 different bar/clubs over the past 4 years - I've never encountered these issues, but also - my other bars -I was only two nights a week. Re me as a dj: I'm quite popular in my region and a few times a month get my night covered to play at "non competing" large events. The owner knows I am a sought after dj with option to go elsewhere with my name and skill - he knows though that six nights a week is "good" for a dj and not offered anywhere else around. The regulars pay high compliments to me as a dj - which the owner has often fed back to me. Still - in my gut, I don't think that closing early should reduce my nightly pay and I think extra pay on certain holiday nights is appropriate.
Thanks for any feedback.
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