Contracted Trainers - What's your barn's cut?

[zahena]

For all of you contracted trainers out there, what cut does your barn get of your income? Lessons? Training rides? Coaching fees?

Does this vary from area to area? Or is there pretty much an industry standard acceptable rate?

As a professional dancer we have a set base fee we all agree to (loosely) and then go from there. It varies from area to area and it doesn’t stop the undercutting but it does make for a nice baseline. Vindicated’s post got me thinking on the acceptable amount of a cut for a contract trainer.

[dab]

I’m not a trainer, but am aware of how it’s worked at some of the barns I’ve boarded at – These barns were all within an hour of eachother, so I would say it varies by barn, not by region –

Last barn I was at took 50% of everything …lessons, coaching, sales commissions – Didn’t matter if the lesson was on a school horse or a boarder’s horse – The barn did provide some marketing services to pull in up/down lessons –

Another barn with similar but older facilities lets the resident trainer keep everything –

3 boarding barns that allowed me to bring in my own trainer never asked for a cut from my trainers –

At another barn the head trainer paid her assistants $10/hour whether they were teaching privates or groups – These were up/down lessons –

[MagicRoseFarm]

we do not have a contract trainer, but we figure, 1/3 goes to insurance, 1/3 to facilities and lessons horse care, and 1/3 to instructor…

training rides were a bit less than a lesson, so 50-50 barn/trainer

[The_Blonde_amp_The_Bay]

Wondering if anyone wants to revive this thread for me? We are purchasing a farm which will be home to our business and also offer boarding. We plan on allowing outside trainers since there are a few great ones in our area that own their own properties but are full for boarders. I do not want to charge a fee to those trainers because I believe it will just get passed on to the clients. I can go round and round on that topic from both sides since I do feel the trainers are essentially making some profit off our investment, but in the end I don’t want my boarders to bear the brunt of an extra fee just because they want to continue their education rather than ride alone in the arena they’re already paying board to use.

But my question is about resident trainers. I am an amateur and I see it as a huge asset to our property to have someone capable available for training and lessons. Can anyone lend insight to how you structure fees in that scenario?

The barn will handle all scheduling, promote the trainer and the farm and have a one or two horses available for lessons initially. What is a typical split for lessons on our farm-owned horses, on client-owned horses, on trainer-owned horses?

As a pro, is there anything you’d really love as a perk when moving to a new facility to be the in house trainer?

Thanks a million!

[The_Blonde_amp_The_Bay]

Wondering if anyone wants to revive this thread and provide some insight!

We are purchasing a farm which will be home to our business and also offer boarding. We plan on allowing outside trainers since there are a few great ones in our area that own their own properties but are full for boarders. I do not want to charge a fee to those trainers because I believe it will just get passed on to the clients. I can go round and round on that topic from both sides since I do feel the trainers are essentially making some profit off our investment, but in the end I don’t want my boarders to bear the brunt of an extra fee just because they want to continue their education rather than ride alone in the arena they’re already paying board to use.

But my question is about resident trainers. I am an amateur and I see it as a huge asset to our property to have someone capable available for training and lessons. Can anyone lend insight to how you structure fees in that scenario?

The barn will handle all scheduling, promote the trainer and the farm and have a one or two horses available for lessons initially. What is a typical split for lessons on our farm-owned horses, on client-owned horses, on trainer-owned horses?

As a pro, is there anything you’d really love as a perk when moving to a new facility to be the in house trainer?

”‹”‹”‹”‹”‹”‹”‹Thanks a million!

[The_Blonde_amp_The_Bay]

Hi! I’m wondering if anyone wants to revive this topic?

We are purchasing a farm which will be home to our business and also offer boarding. We plan on allowing outside trainers since there are a few great ones in our area that own their own properties but are full for boarders. I do not want to charge a fee to those trainers because I believe it will just get passed on to the boarding clients.

My question is about resident trainers. I am an amateur and I see it as a huge asset to our property to have someone capable available for training and lessons. Can anyone lend insight to how you structure fees in that scenario?

The barn will handle all scheduling, promote the trainer and the farm and have a one or two horses available for lessons initially. What is a typical split for lessons on our farm-owned horses, on client-owned horses, on trainer-owned horses?

As a pro, is there anything you’d really love as a perk when moving to a new facility to be the in house trainer?

Thanks a million!