3.3.3 Expenditure on artists 49 respondents (comprising 9 national organisations and 40 non-national organisations) provided information on their expenditure on artists in 2009. Together, these organisations spent €15.2 million on artists’ performance fees for their ownpromoted concerts and events, €483,000 on commissioning new works from artists, €650,000 on artists’ subsistence costs and €524,000 on additional payments to artists. In addition, 8 national organisations spent €425,000 on grant funding musicians and ensembles to undertake national and international touring. In total, this is €17.2 million spent on artists in 2009 by 49 respondents, or 23% of their overall expenditure. If we extrapolate this to the full membership, we can estimate that the total expenditure on artists by EJN members in 2009 was €22.9 million28.
3.3.4 Local expenditure We asked non-national respondents to estimate where their money was spent in 2009, and to give proportions of their total expenditure spent internationally, nationally and locally29. The results from 34 respondents were as follows:
Where the money is spent
28% national 29% international 43% local Sample size: 34 Figure 17 Based on total estimated expenditure in 2009 by all the non-national organisations in EJN, we can estimate that non-national organisations spent €43.4 million in their local economies, €28.9 million nationally and €30 million internationally30.
28 This is based on a trimmed mean of 10% and the same extrapolation methodology as used previously. This is a conservative estimate: a riskier way of trying to estimate the total expenditure on artists would be to take the estimated total expenditure by the full membership €136.5 million - and find 23% of that, which would give a higher estimate of €31.7 million, but I believe this is less likely to be accurate. The total given includes the actual amount given by national organisation respondents for grant funding national and international tours - £425,000 - rather than an extrapolated figure, so this may make the total estimated figure more conservative.
29 In terms of guidance, we specified that international artists’ fees should be counted only if they were paid directly to international artists, but if they were paid to a national agent, this should be counted as national expenditure. Nationally was defined as ‘within your country but more than 30 minutes’ journey time from your organisation base or main venue’, and locally was defined as ‘within a 30 minute journey time of your organisation base or main venue’. We asked respondents to remember to include major expenditure items, such as staffing (asking whether their staff live locally), artists’ fees, subcontractors and venue hire. 33