General

General price per hour: $35

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Music Preparation

The following rates are adapted from the "Live Rates" of the AFM Orchestrator and Copyist Scales. The figures have been carefuly adjusted to reflect the actual time demanded for engravers working with Baxter Music Publishing based upon a $35 per hour wage. The rates also reflect some of the changes computer notation have made possible, such as lower score rates when parts are also prepared and no charge for transpositions. Prices are per page unless otherwise indicated

PARTS
$5 - Parts/Single Line
+ $0 - Transposed
+ $2.50 - Cued
+ $3 - Divisi or Chorded
+ $3 - 2 Stave (keyboard, duos, etc)
+ $5 - 3 Stave (keyboard + soloist)
+ $1.50 - Adding chord symbols
+ $3 - Add 1 set of lyrics
+ $1 - Add each additional set of lyrics
SCORE W/PARTS
rates apply to scores prepared IN ADDITION to parts. (score rates are in addition to part rates, not in lieu of them.)
$4 - 2-5 Staves (2 systems per page)
$2 - 6-15 Staves (1 system per page)
$3.50 - 16+ Staves (1 system per page)
SCORE ONLY
rates apply only if a score is prepared WITHOUT parts
# of staves + $7 (ex. 12 stave = $19 per page)
PROOFREADING
$20/hr (generally performed by a third party)

Parts are calculated on a rounded-up half-page basis. If a part consists of 2 full pages and a few staves on the third page, 2 1/2 pages will be billed, as opposed to the full 3. Additionally, surcharges to the "Parts/Single Line" base rate, such as divisi, are calculated on a 1/2 page basis at the discrection of the engraver. For example, if several bars of a page of violin music contained divisi material, but no divisis are to be found elsewhere in that part, the surcharge would be $1.50 (half of the $3 divisi rate)

WEB DESIGN

Each web page is defined as a visual area not exceeding a print area of 8.5x11 which may include text, images, links, and all services listed below in addition to "behind-the-scenes" elements such as valid semantic markup and attention to accessibility issues. Shorter pages, longer pages, and those with more complicated content are billed in half-hour increments at the designer's discretion.

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND IMAGE ALTERATION
JAVASCRIPT, PHP, DHTML, CGI

Due to the nature of custom scripting, the only fair method we've found is to bill hourly for the work. The rate of $35 applies per hour.

DIGITAL MEDIA

PRINTING AND GRAPHIC DESIGN

*With few exceptions, these prices apply to additional printing of materials associated with a particular project. For example, printing of additional scores in a music engraving project, extra sets of parts, or multiple copies of musical excerpts or theses. These rates also reflect direct print rates for digital materials.

Printing costs*:
  PARTS (20-28 lb. bond) SCORE (32-70 lb. bond) CLIENT-SUPPLIED PAPER
(regardless of stock)
Letter (8.5 x 11) one-sided $.051 / page $.051 / page $.035 / page
Letter (8.5 x 11) two-sided $.086 / page $.086 / page $.070 / page
Legal (8.5 x 14) one-sided - $.061 / page -
Legal (8.5 x 14) two-sided - $.103 / page -
Tabloid (11 x 17) one-sided $.090 / page $.114 / page $.060 / page
Tabloid (11 x 17) two-sided $.150 / page $.174 / page $.120 / page
Oversize (12 x 18) one-sided - - $.065 / page
Oversize (12 x 18) two-sided - - $.130 / page
CD Labels

(small quantity only, examples of past work in this category include data CD-Rs and demo CDs)

BINDING AND POST-PRODUCTION

Comb binding:
Misc. post production: