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2015 Orchestra Compensation Reports: Executives

Tue, Jun 6, 2015
by Drew McManus
2015 Compensation Reports Executives
The 2012/13 season continued the overall field-wide trend of heated labor disputes; the Minnesota Orchestra went dark for the entire season while the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra lost most of their season and the Indianapolis Symphony had a shorter, but equally bitter, shutdown. When combined with a higher than normal number of partial year compensation
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2015 Orchestra Compensation Reports: Introduction

Mon, Jun 6, 2015
by Drew McManus
2015 Compensation Reports Introduction
As is the case with every annual orchestra compensation report, the most important element to keep in mind is these figures encompass the 2012/13 season. Although it isn’t unusual to expect that the most recent figures available would cover the previous season, in this case 2013/14, that’s not how things work thanks to a few
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Minnesota Musicians Ratify Substitute Pay Disparity Through 2020

Fri, Jun 6, 2015
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 123
On 5/19/2015, the Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra (MOMA) ratified a 3.5 year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with their employer, the Minnesota Orchestra Association (MOA). The new agreement begins 2/1/2017 and expires on 8/31/2020; at the beginning of the 2019/20 season, the base musician annual salary with electronic music guarantee (EMG) will by $110,604 and
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Time For Updates

Thu, Jun 6, 2015
by Drew McManus
2015 updates
Thanks to some recent upgrades in the publishing framework that powers most of my web development work, there are a number of updated pages at Adaptistration and OrchestraConsulting.com. One of the biggest improvements is the ease of creating full width content sections, which you can see in action at the updated Blog Policy & Code
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Look Like A Design Genius With These Photoshop Templates

Wed, Jun 6, 2015
by Drew McManus
ArtsHacker.com
A good Photoshop (PSD) template can save hours of time and frustration when designing branding elements for social media platforms and over the past year, you’ve probably noticed the trend toward larger, full width header images. These look terrific and since every major social media platform functions within a responsive website environment (where content is
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