I can see it now. Price-fixing at Mudcat. I think Rick Fielding started it by enumerating what he would charge for various services (!!!) in the Pay-to-Audition thread.

Really, we should have a thread with a table in it with what the going rate (range) is for various things. Including size of venue, who is doing sound, how many instruments & sound pieces you have to tote, whether you bring songbooks for people to use, expenses, all that stuff, right down to the free beer (or not). Anyone want to take that on? "Customary Compensation." Then we would have a point of reference when we break the bad news to the people who ask us to play.

~Susan