It’s an interesting equilibrium for this—once everyone expects to be paid individually, it’ll be tough to switch to the “pay for entertainment sum” model that I understand is more common for small music venues (though the rates vary pretty widely, so it may have similar effects for larger groups).
At a very basic level, your revenue per attendee doesn’t change, so your ability to pay doesn’t scale with number of musicians. Since you probably shouldn’t buck the expectations of base pay per person, you likely need to set different bonus/incentive levels for different sizes of group, to take into account the assumption that bigger groups have more attendance (justifying their higher expense) as a baseline.
It’s an interesting equilibrium for this—once everyone expects to be paid individually, it’ll be tough to switch to the “pay for entertainment sum” model that I understand is more common for small music venues (though the rates vary pretty widely, so it may have similar effects for larger groups).
At a very basic level, your revenue per attendee doesn’t change, so your ability to pay doesn’t scale with number of musicians. Since you probably shouldn’t buck the expectations of base pay per person, you likely need to set different bonus/incentive levels for different sizes of group, to take into account the assumption that bigger groups have more attendance (justifying their higher expense) as a baseline.