How much do djs get paid? From what I've heard the most expensive is Carl Cox..36000 euros, Hawtin 30000 euros + all sorts of stuff for the dj booth.
Although it all depends on the relationship between the people of the venue and djs manager.

It depends on how big the event is. For festivals it can be up to what you first suggested. For clubs it varies...

some dj's get paid too much and others not enough.

To much for playing other peoples music.

its better then producers who cant dj.... ;-)

Indeed producers that can't dj FTL

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Posted by Rene
some dj's get paid too much and others not enough.

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Churchy doesn't deserve to get paid, he wears too many clothes

I think you need to view a DJ's name as a brand: the more people recognize that brand, the more will pay to see him / her, and therefore the DJs with the biggest profile can charge the most.
Whether they 'deserve' these amount will always be contestable, but at the end of the day (and for the promoters), what counts is heads thru the doors / tickets sold...

luciano asked $10k for playing 3 hours in nyc... there's no such thing as 36000 or 30000 euros, that's the way to much, dj's r not millioners, of couse some of them making nice amount of money, but still they not getting paid 30000 euros for set....

Eric Morillo got paid £15k for doin Shindig and that was a couple of years ago, so yes some are very much millionaires!

the highest ive heard is $50,000 that sasha claimed to have turned down for a two hour set when he was at his prime, but there is no way that hawtin commands like $50,000+ a set, some of the smaller places hes played, even the last year, probably couldn't afford to pay him half that

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luciano asked $10k for playing 3 hours in nyc... there's no such thing as 36000 or 30000 euros, that's the way to much, dj's r not millioners, of couse some of them making nice amount of money, but still they not getting paid 30000 euros for set....

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You'd be surprised at the amounts that some djs get for certain gigs.

You need to remember that the amount djs get is relative to the gig they play. If they play to a crowd of 10,000 people they are likely to get paid considerably more than if they play to 300 people. At the end of the day it's simple supply and demand. 10,000 people each paying £20 = £200,000. That money has to go somewhere.

Does it really bother you how much these guys earn?

The catch is still....you get what you pay for.
The pitch is still....only you know if you paid too much at the end of the night.

Pay me $2,500-$5,000.00 US to DJ 3 hours.

You will get not 3 hours, you will get 6 hours.

I will be at the party when the sound engineers are pulling in speakers, checking turntables and needles before the party, talking to supporters and/or fans, passing out free mix CD's to people that show up, having dinner at the local pub or restaurant, taking pictures, talking to other DJs on the bill, more pictures, trading vinyl and giving away rare vinyl to fans and/or other DJs etc.

Then the unspeakable....I will play a warm-up set before my time slot or tag team with another DJ early in the evening. Why? Just because.....I love DJing, the music, the culture.

You either love the music or you dont.
You either give back o you dont.

"If you are good to the hood, the hood will be good to you."-Katt Williams

The Butcher
www.detroitfightclub313.com
GOT TO LOVE THE MUSIC...............

I guess it's like pro-sports players: these guys need to earn big while they're good/popular. Not every dj is a Jeff Mills or Dave Clarke, who're still playing into their 40's.

Also, think of the crushing schedules that some of these people turn. I'd be happy to do so if I got paid properly for it, but this definitely isn't the case in the run-up phase. The investment is considerable: years of living in shitty small apartments eating buttered toast, before you finally break through (if you ever do so).

It's all a big gamble, so if you do break through and get paid for it, good on ya! (the discussion whether all famous dj's deserve their status is a different one entirely)

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Does it really bother you how much these guys earn?

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curiosity señor

ok

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Posted by article1
I think you need to view a DJ's name as a brand: the more people recognize that brand, the more will pay to see him / her

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true...here at Zürich bring any of great DJ's and nobody comes but,bring Villalobos or Hawtin it's sold out

Surely Tiesto and Oakenfold have earnt the most?

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Surely Tiesto and Oakenfold have earnt the most?

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Oakenfold is Madonna's support act on her tour.

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Surely Tiesto and Oakenfold have earnt the most?

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Oakenfold is Madonna's support act on her tour.

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And i remember him supporting U2 many years ago.

Morillo got paid €25000 to play in a nightclub here in waterford a couple of years ago.

On a side note, it's not always about the money. Lets not forget, playing in a popular club, like Fabric for instance, can be invaluable to DJ's profile.

It all depends.
You have to be absolutely huge to get paid anywhere near the big boys.
The best way to up your earnings as a DJ is to promote your own nights.
Not only to you get to play elsewhere, you can get a nice chunk of money if you work it right.

Far to much anyway....especially when nobody has any money (up north anyway)it hurts sometimes paying 20 bar to get into a night, and you know the DJ's getting 10g!! canny be arsed with that like.

Something like 20,000 euros for a festival sounds about right. No one would blink an eye if a rock band were paid that to headline somewhere, right?

I would be extremely surprised, however, if club fees for even the biggest got near that.

(Although, I did hear a rumour that back in the day you could earn an astonishing amount in Ibiza. This was when a door ticket could set you back 150 euros, so you do the math. Can anyone confirm this? )

Venue size must surely be important. A club can only pay a DJ according to how much they can take at the door.

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Morillo got paid €25000 to play in a nightclub here in waterford a couple of years ago.

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did he get his fruit salad? i hear he is really crancky when he doesn't

Too much!!Considrring they are playing others peoples traks.The real money should be going to the artists.

This is first of all very stupid to discuss cause it is basically their business. I've worked as a promoter and i can tell you it really depends on the venue, even the country, also if you are friends with the DJ price goes lower.
And funny thing is all the commercial house DJs get more money than the greatest minimal and techno artists like Carola, Hawtin, Dubfire... And of course what Tiesto and PVD and the other big trance names get for a gig other big artists earn for a month.

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This is first of all very stupid to discuss cause it is basically their business.

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Do clubbers not have a right to know how money they have paid is being spent & distributed, like TAX, for example?

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Posted by antiguana
but still they not getting paid 30000 euros for set....

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Oh they do get paid 30 000 euros, and a lot more, of course not all of them

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I think you need to view a DJ's name as a brand: the more people recognize that brand, the more will pay to see him / her

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true...here at Zürich bring any of great DJ's and nobody comes but,bring Villalobos or Hawtin it's sold out

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Don't worry... this happens not only in Zürich...

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but still they not getting paid 30000 euros for set....

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Oh they do get paid 30 000 euros, and a lot more, of course not all of them

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DT is one of the better paid artist!
I think he asks more then 30k

Who cares... unless you plan to make a living off it; and if you are then you'll know along the way regardless. It's not like you get in it for the money.

£60.50 or they wait until the student loan comes through...

i was reading an article recently with a big named DJ who was saying that its not the actual 2/3 hour set they ask the majority of the money for but for the travelling, jet lag, inconvinence of living out of a suitcase and time they spend away from home.

If i was Morillo and could charge 20K to play i would because even tho that guy is not a favorite of mine he puts in the miles, back and forth to ibiza in the summer, all over europe and the rest of the world - he is one of the main global warming problems with his air miles!

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i was reading an article recently with a big named DJ who was saying that its not the actual 2/3 hour set they ask the majority of the money for but for the travelling, jet lag, inconvinence of living out of a suitcase and time they spend away from home.

If i was Morillo and could charge 20K to play i would because even tho that guy is not a favorite of mine he puts in the miles, back and forth to ibiza in the summer, all over europe and the rest of the world - he is one of the main global warming problems with his air miles!

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Surely he should be taxed heavily for carbon footprint???

Richie Hawntin 35000€ to play in Anti Pop Music Festival 2007 (2hours)

10 bar tokens!

Their just spoilt.

a percentage of the amount to be paid should depend on the quality of the set they play

I heard that Richie Hawtin got £15,000 for playing the ulster hall in Belfast on Easter monday.

Its supply and demand determined months in advance.

Daft Punk, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, Morillo, Hawtin, Carl Cox
have to be the top bread winners.

Globetrotting Djs can be very selective and should be to keep their "In demand" status high and cash in on it.

think like peps said, depends on venue, location and amount of peps. If your entertained and have a good time, and they've mae that atmos they deserve to get paid. in a global economy it is supply n demand, they can only be in one place at a time and think how many people want to book dubfire on a given nite! agree £20 to get into a club is crazy... but equally full time djing is a massive lifestyle choice.

i just wish more money trickled to the artists whos tracks the djs are playing. so hopefully people think that next time they download a ripped copy...

The big names will get 30,000 easy. As mentioned previously it all depends on the size of venue, where there travelling from, set times, residencies, mates rates and so forth..

The headliner will also ask for a cut of the bar profits if its a big night apart from ibiza that is. This is one of the reasons why drinks are so expensive on the white island. DJ's don't get bar profits in ibiza so the ticket prices covers there wage and the club makes the money on the bar.

Do I think Dj's are worth this much? Yes they do, if there is a demand for them they will sell out a club and put a lot of money behind the bar which equals good business.

I know of deadmau5 being paid 50,000 recently. Tiesto 40,000 + bar profits. Imagine how much he is making in ibiza, selling out privelege virtually every week and only got him on the bill charging 50 euro a ticket. Oakenfold you couldn't afford to make money out of unless a football ground was your venue (and he only does creamfields as a favour)

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Too much for playing other peoples music.

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^this!

$0 and ten grams of that coco leaf extract, and night at the Vagabond and two glasses of water half full with a free "recession breakfast" the next morning

ricardo villalobos 50,000 euros for new years eve in rome ! but he probably played 12 hours so the promoter saved money by not booking anyone else

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Posted by dabrowski
ricardo villalobos 50,000 euros for new years eve in rome ! but he probably played 12 hours so the promoter saved money by not booking anyone else

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if you check the line up there loads of people on it, so no way is that true.

it was a joke ! i am sure he got paid 50K though......