How Much Money Do You Make At Large Conventions Artists

Equally many of you know, I occasionally earn extra coin performing geek music at conventions and selling CDs, T-shirts, and hoodies in the dealers' room when I'thou not onstage.

So I was very interested in a new survey put out by The Devastator and The Crush that takes a await at exactly how much coin dealers earn at these conventions.

When I wrote most my experiences at convention dealers' rooms for The Penny Hoarder, I noted that I earned "anywhere from a few hundred dollars to around $1,000" selling merch at conventions. Well, turns out I'm on the low end of the average: the Devastator/Trounce survey reports that the average convention dealer earns $1,000 per convention. Of course, they too notation that if it's an indie con (every bit opposed to what they telephone call a "comic con") the average dealer earns $615, which is more on line with my experiences.

These income reports represent gross earnings and not net profit; information technology would have been nice to include information on what each convention is charging for a dealer's table, and it would have been interesting to inquire the dealers surveyed whether they came out ahead after the costs of travel, lodging, food, etc. were subtracted out. (One of the reasons I play many fewer conventions than I used to is that I rarely came out ahead, cash-wise.)

But at present allow's look at the fun office: which individual conventions perform the best.

It should come up as no surprise to anyone that San Diego Comic-Con dealers study the highest sales: $3,290 on average, and i dealer reported earning $90,000. (Although $3,290 sounds like a lot, a basic 2015 SDCC dealer'south table with no add-ons costs $3,000. With that in mind, I'm assuming that the average SDCC dealer does not make a profit on his or her trip to San Diego.)

Seattle's Emerald City Comicon performs reasonably well, with a dealer average of $ane,500. Dealers who travel south to Portland's Rose Urban center Comic Con can wait to earn significantly less, with the dealer average at only $650. Given what I know near both Seattle and Portland, this makes sense; I've often told people that I moved to Seattle instead of Portland because Seattle just feels like it has more money in it. (Aye, this was a meaning factor in my option of cities.)

What's at the bottom of the listing? 2 Maryland conventions: Small Printing Expo and Baltimore Comic-Con, both with average earnings of $300. This is where I want to channel Comic Book Guy and be all "Well, actually, Small Press Expo isn't a convention. It's really more of an art bear witness." I'chiliad a piddling disappointed that they don't accept whatsoever reports from Maryland's almanac MAGFest, which is a huge convention and is one of the places where I have consistently had smashing sales.

The entire survey is bachelor for costless (or for a suggested donation of $ane, which I paid) and is well worth reading if you are interested in geek conventions and/or how people who sell merch do money.

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Source: https://www.thebillfold.com/2015/01/how-much-do-vendors-earn-selling-merch-at-geek-conventions/

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