As a feeling things that are missing:
I think the venue will have part of the tixprice;
Cost of the Mercedesfleet + chauffeurs;
Crew hotels
When I visited each venue website to collect the seating capacity numbers I noticed that many of the venues also listed their booking details. As you can imagine the fees were all over the place, some venues charge a base fee plus a piece of each ticket that they sell, some charge a minimum fee that can slide up to in some cases 10% of the 'adjusted gross'. The venues also charge for things like load in / load out and required union employees - ushers, ticket-takers, stage crew, wardrobe, house manager. Using the averages of 2700 seats and $70 a ticket at 10% comes out to $19k per show. Since this is not by any means an exhaustive, exact exercise; in the name of keeping it simple I made the average fee $35k to the venue and local promoter. Is this right? I don't know, it is a WAG. Some places had much higher ticket prices - NYC for example - the average ticket price was $100. I suspect that this was due in part to a higher fee demand from the venue. I did notice that most venues also collect 20% of any merchandise sold on their premises.
The local limo costs in NA could be broken out from the jet transport but I'm thinking that $15k per ride may include local ground transport. At any rate, they had 3 cars most days 4x per show - hotel to airport, airport to venue and reverse after the show. Some shows didn't require plane rides but lets call it 4 trips x 3 cars x 28 shows x $100 / trip = $35k. Relatively small piece of the cost. In Europe I understand that they use a dedicated limo service, I imagine that costs more, since the drivers and cars are on call 24x7 and have to sleep and eat, although maybe they get in on the catering.
I believe the crew sleep on the buses during overnight transit to the next show, so no hotel necessary for them.
As to the cost for the players. Again I'm WAGing it, but I also didn't account for 3 weeks of rehearsals that they all went through. Also remember that the core group has been with MK for many years and they only go out for 5 months every 2 years. I don't know that they have an agreement with MK to be available on that schedule but if they do perhaps he 'overpays' them a bit to insure that they are available and don't get booked into some other commitment. I'm sure they aren't paid equally, GF as MD most certainly gets more $. If we bump the average $10k / show down to $7.5k that puts another $0.5mm in MK's pocket.
I may have overstated the size of the crew in NA. They used local catering in NA as opposed to hiring on catering staff in Europe. Dropping the crew headcount down to 20 from 30 saves $0.17mm in crew salary.
So maybe MK made a cool $1mm for his effort in NA in 2010. Who knows? It just a guessing game.
