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<blockquote data-quote="Dragon Snack" data-source="post: 4751078" data-attributes="member: 9810">Aim higher.&nbsp; Charge more and make it worth it.Realistically, you are only going to max out at one session a day during the week (well, realistically you will be extremely lucky to get that).&nbsp; If they're 5 hours long, that's only 25 hours.&nbsp; If you kill yourself on Saturday and Sunday DMing 12 hour days, there's another 24 hours.&nbsp; Let's be generous and add another hour to make the math easier...50 hours at $8/hour is only $400 a week for busting your butt (and the hours you aren't getting paid will be going into prep work).&nbsp; Can you live on less than $400 a week in NYC?That's actually not what you will take home though, since you have expenses.&nbsp; Uncle Sam and Mr Patterson will want their pound of flesh (if I read my tax forms right, it looks like Bloomberg gets a cut as well, but I don't actually live in The City) and to top it off you get to contribute both halves to &quot;your&quot; SS.&nbsp; And if people are paying you to DM, you better have all of the books - especially the newest ones.BTW, tipping the owner (which you would be) is considered improper by many people, even if it has become more acceptable these days.&nbsp; Don't count on a single penny over what you charge.Good luck, but I think you would be better served to either do this part time on the weekends (for a little extra spending cash) or put your effort into finding one or two groups who would be willing to pay the big bucks for a DM (maybe some Wall Street fat cats will want to spend their money less conspicuously - on a D&amp;D game!).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragon Snack, post: 4751078, member: 9810"] Aim higher. Charge more and make it worth it. Realistically, you are only going to max out at one session a day during the week (well, realistically you will be extremely lucky to get that). If they're 5 hours long, that's only 25 hours. If you kill yourself on Saturday and Sunday DMing 12 hour days, there's another 24 hours. Let's be generous and add another hour to make the math easier... 50 hours at $8/hour is only $400 a week for busting your butt (and the hours you aren't getting paid will be going into prep work). Can you live on less than $400 a week in NYC? That's actually not what you will take home though, since you have expenses. Uncle Sam and Mr Patterson will want their pound of flesh (if I read my tax forms right, it looks like Bloomberg gets a cut as well, but I don't actually live in The City) and to top it off you get to contribute both halves to "your" SS. And if people are paying you to DM, you better have all of the books - especially the newest ones. BTW, tipping the owner (which you would be) is considered improper by many people, even if it has become more acceptable these days. Don't count on a single penny over what you charge. Good luck, but I think you would be better served to either do this part time on the weekends (for a little extra spending cash) or put your effort into finding one or two groups who would be willing to pay the big bucks for a DM (maybe some Wall Street fat cats will want to spend their money less conspicuously - on a D&D game!). [/QUOTE]

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