3.3.2 Festivals and venues The total combined expenditure in 2009 of the 44 responding non-national organisations was €85.3 million. The range again is vast, from the smallest annual expenditure of €70,000 to the largest of €18.7 million. The average expenditure of €1.9 million is less representative than the median expenditure, which is €650,000.
36 respondents gave a further breakdown of their expenditure in 2009 across 19 major categories. Bearing in mind that, taken together, these major categories may not add up to 100% of the expenditure of each organisation26, the results of the analysis were as follows:
Festivals' and venues' expenditure by category Staff salaries
37.48%
Category
Payments to artists
31.19%
Technical costs
7.56%
Marketing and publicity
7.18%
Accommodation costs
4.85%
Office overheads
4.39%
Venue hire
As previously, although the totals by categories are correct, and 37% of the total expenditure by category is spent on staff salaries, again the skewed nature of respondents’ answers means that an analysis of the median figures may be more representative of typical expenditure by non-national organisation members27.
2.70%
Grant funding
2.35%
Education, learning and participation
1.32%
Recordings and other publications
0.43%
Advocacy, lobbying and research
0.27%
Professional development
0.18%
Music publishing
0.09% 0%
Sample size: 36
5%
An analysis of the median expenditure by category, using the same methodology as above in section 3.1.2 for income, shows broadly the same pattern of Figure 15 expenditure but significantly with the top two categories reversed, and a higher 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% proportion of expenditure for artists’ performance fees (33%) compared to staff % of category totals salaries (28%), as demonstrated below:
Festivals and venues' median expenditure by category Artists' performance fees
32.66%
Staff salaries
27.93%
Technical costs
11.60%
Category
Marketing & publicity
26 We did not require respondents to break down their total expenditure for the year, but instead asked them to assign expenditure against a range of key categories. Indeed, for the 36 respondents who gave a breakdown of their expenditure in 2009 as well as their total expenditure for the year, 17.8% of their expenditure is unaccounted for in this breakdown, so this analysis accounts for the remaining 82.2% of expenditure. Some of the categories have been combined in the above table: the category ‘payments to artists’ includes artists’ performance fees, taxation on artists’ fees, new arts commissions, subsistence for artists and other artists’ payments. 27 Again, as previously, we have not included the median expenditure by category for national organisations, based on the smaller sample size and distribution of data for these respondents. See footnote 17 for more information about why.
10.19%
Accommodation costs
5.61%
Office overheads
4.09%
Venue hire
3.93%
Taxation on artists' fees
1.70%
New arts commissions
0.95%
Subsistence for artists
0.87%
Education, learning and participation
0.23%
Professional development
0.23% 0%
Sample size: 36
5%
Figure 16 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% % of category totals 32