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INTERNATIONAL MURAL PRICING CHART |
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A large hurdle for mural-artists in arriving at an equitable Price for Work done, is the lack of an industry standard. This table was created to be accessed by artists so they could get an idea of what a project of a given size should cost. There are of course many extenuating circumstances to be taken into consideration. These will be delved into in the following section. This chart would probably not work well for other techniques such a "faut finis" or "sculpted relief work". The latter tends only to price well as a per square or cubic area with specific materials used. This chart is designed for the North American market. Creating a separate chart for the U.S. and Canada was contemplated but it turns out that on a rough average the numerical figures are almost the same despite the lower value of the Canadian dollar. Therefore these numbers can be applied to both countries in their respective currencies. Any artists who have created charts of their own or who have a list of works done with prices charged would be welcome to submit these for inclusion in an averaging chart to be used for future editions. The way your figures would be used, would be to nestle all figures received into the most common size areas and extrapolate in both directions from there. The reason for this is that in general, in the real world, as one looks at larger and larger projects each square foot or meter painted takes less time to execute than in smaller projects. In order for the structure to reflect this, the price per square unit of area has to decrease for larger murals. As this chart is derived from a relatively small sampling of work done, these transitions should be fairly smooth to offset what might turn out to be ambiguities in price-per-size jumps. It must be remembered too that this is only a guide. There are many conditions and circumstances that can alter these prices as outlined below. Comments would be appreciated as to how close this chart reflects your own experience in this area. Any suggestions that might increase effectiveness are welcomed. Anyone who has any tidbits of valuable information, submit it along with permission to publish it. If possible, it will be included in the appropriate section. |
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Prices include all Work and Materials.They do not include scaffolding charges nor out-of-town transportation and living Expenses. Be sure to mention these details to your artist or his agent to ensure an accurate quote. This list is compiled for Fine Art Murals, Commercial murals often require modified, individual treatments which reduce the overall cost and are not within the scope of this table. | ||
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| $700.00 | |||
| $735.00 | |||
| $882.00 | |||
| $980.00 | |||
| $1,176.00 | |||
| $1,372.00 | Prices include all Work and Materials.They do not include scaffolding charges nor out-of-town transportation and living Expenses. Be sure to mention these details to your artist or his agent to ensure an accurate quote. This list is compiled for Fine Art Murals, Commercial murals often require modified, individual treatments which reduce the overall cost and are not within the scope of this table. | ||
| $1,715.00 | |||
| $1,960.00 | |||
| $2,082.50 | |||
| $2,303.00 | |||
| $2,450.00 | |||
| $2,597.00 | |||
| $2,695.00 | |||
| $2,866.50 | |||
| $3,038.00 | |||
| $3,136.00 | |||
| $3,332.00 | Prices include all Work and Materials.They do not include scaffolding charges nor out-of-town transportation and living Expenses. Be sure to mention these details to your artist or his agent to ensure an accurate quote. This list is compiled for Fine Art Murals, Commercial murals often require modified, individual treatments which reduce the overall cost and are not within the scope of this table. | ||
| $3,528.00 | |||
| $3,846.50 | |||
| $4,067.00 | |||
| $4,287.50 | |||
| $4,655.00 | |||
| $4,900.00 | |||
| $5,145.00 | |||
| $5,292.00 | |||
| $5,561.50 | |||
| $5,831.00 | |||
| $6,272.00 | |||
| $6,566.00 | Prices include all Work and Materials.They do not include scaffolding charges nor out-of-town transportation and living Expenses. Be sure to mention these details to your artist or his agent to ensure an accurate quote. This list is compiled for Fine Art Murals, Commercial murals often require modified, individual treatments which reduce the overall cost and are not within the scope of this table. | ||
| $6,860.00 | |||
| $7,350.00 | |||
| $7,668.50 | |||
| $7,987.00 | |||
| $8,183.00 | |||
| $8,526.00 | |||
| $8,869.00 | |||
| $9,432.50 | |||
| $9,800.00 | |||
| $10,167.50 | |||
| $10,388.00 | |||
| $10,780.00 | |||
| $11,172.00 | Prices include all Work and Materials.They do not include scaffolding charges nor out-of-town transportation and living Expenses. Be sure to mention these details to your artist or his agent to ensure an accurate quote. This list is compiled for Fine Art Murals, Commercial murals often require modified, individual treatments which reduce the overall cost and are not within the scope of this table. | ||
| $11,809.00 | |||
| $12,225.50 | |||
| $12,642.00 | |||
| $13,328.00 | |||
| $13,769.00 | |||
| $14,210.00 | |||
| $14,479.50 | |||
| $14,945.00 | |||
| $15,410.50 | |||
| $16,170.00 | |||
| $16,660.00 | |||
| $17,150.00 | |||
| $17,958.50 | Prices include all Work and Materials.They do not include scaffolding charges nor out-of-town transportation and living Expenses. Be sure to mention these details to your artist or his agent to ensure an accurate quote. This list is compiled for Fine Art Murals, Commercial murals often require modified, individual treatments which reduce the overall cost and are not within the scope of this table. | ||
| $18,473.00 | |||
| $18,987.50 | |||
| $19,306.00 | |||
| $19,845.00 | |||
| $20,384.00 | |||
| $21,266.00 | |||
| $21,829.50 | |||
| $22,393.00 | |||
| $22,736.00 | |||
| $23,324.00 | |||
| $23,912.00 | |||
| $24,867.50 | |||
| $25,480.00 | Prices include all Work and Materials.They do not include scaffolding charges nor out-of-town transportation and living Expenses. Be sure to mention these details to your artist or his agent to ensure an accurate quote. This list is compiled for Fine Art Murals, Commercial murals often require modified, individual treatments which reduce the overall cost and are not within the scope of this table. | ||
| $26,092.50 | |||
| $27,097.00 | |||
| $27,734.00 | |||
| $28,371.00 | |||
| $28,763.00 | |||
| $29,424.50 | |||
| $30,086.00 | |||
| $31,164.00 | |||
| $31,850.00 | |||
| $32,536.00 | |||
| $32,952.50 | |||
| $33,663.00 | Prices include all Work and Materials.They do not include scaffolding charges nor out-of-town transportation and living Expenses. Be sure to mention these details to your artist or his agent to ensure an accurate quote. This list is compiled for Fine Art Murals, Commercial murals often require modified, individual treatments which reduce the overall cost and are not within the scope of this table. | ||
| $34,373.50 | |||
| $35,525.00 | |||
| $36,260.00 | |||
| $36,995.00 | |||
| $38,195.50 | |||
| $38,955.00 | |||
| $39,714.50 | |||
| $40,180.00 | |||
| $40,964.00 | |||
| $41,748.00 | |||
When approached about your copyrights, it is wisest to think in terms of licensing them rather than selling them. An artist should never forfeit his copyrights (as opposed to Moral Rights) without being separately and well compensated. When an artist finally reaches the point of relative success, often late in life, he seldom owns much of his own work and must compete in selling it with those who purchased earlier works at much lower prices. His earlier works can actually adversely haunt him years later. He still has to methodically paint each piece and wait for it to be sold albeit at a higher price, in order to be paid. His only real advantage for himself and his heirs at this time may be his ownership of the copyrights on his whole body of works. Your copyrights are actually more valuable than a patent to an inventor and this is why you should relinquish it to no one...see : http://www.eagle-research.com/nopatent/patfree.html for a practical comparison of the two. Remember if others own even a small portion of your copyrights, those are the ones that will be exploited most...at no profit to you...their author. Any projects you later initiate yourself vis a vis your own copyrights, will compete with endeavors based on those works of yours, where the copyrights are owned by others. Unless you have your own team of lawyers to protect you, you may even have a hard time claiming your own authorship of images you created. A case in point from a different branch of the Arts is that of Pop groups from the '50s and '60s who can't operate under their original group names, because the intellectual rights to these names belong to someone else, who hires other artists to be members of those groups. The copyright laws have been recently strengthened to protect artists, but this has done little more than spawn a crusade by some lawyers to coerce needy artists into forfeiting these rights completely. Within the context of what copyrights are intended to do, no one else really needs to own your copyrights, they can license them and you can still make money off them that way. Everything can be achieved by license without forfeiting ownership. Remember, even if you're promised great things and high commissions in trade for your copyright, if there's failure to follow through, that copyright is lost forever to you. It is just as easy and far safer to license the copyrights for a certain project or time period and still retain ownership of it for yourself and your heirs. For this reason every artist should have an automatic minimum $100,000 price tag on the actual ownership of each copyright as a starting price for bargaining. This may even be too cheap in the long term.
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This material last edited January 30, 2001