Executive dinner programs
ROI calculator
In-house means a hire, a ramp and a year of salary before the first guest sits down. Put your own figures in and see what one dinner really costs your team.
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Modelled on a two-dinner-a-month program, $13,000 of venue, food, AV, print and gifting per night, and California loaded rates.
The full risk math
Each dinner really costs you $33,946
Quartermaster's fee is fixed and quoted up front, and we deliver end to end in 5 to 6 weeks.
Methodology How we calculate this
The risk, line by line
| What you are exposed to | Hiring |
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Why the budget number lies
In the event budget
In payroll, never re-aggregated
Where the money actually goes
| Cost line | In-house | Whose budget it lands in |
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One honest note: venue, food, AV and gifting cost the same whoever runs the night, and you hold those contracts directly. The cost that never shows up in the event budget is your team's time.
Assumptions
- Each dinner is assumed to take about half of each person's month. Adjust it below if your team runs leaner or heavier.
- Salaries are loaded at 1.25x for benefits, taxes and tooling.
- $7,500 a month of ops, design and management time, plus $2,100 a month of event platform and collateral, split across two dinners.
- $13,000 a night of venue, food, AV, print and gifting is paid either way, held in your contracts and never marked up.
- Hiring risk blends the recruiting fee, ramp drag, idle capacity and the chance of severance plus starting over.
Fine-tune the assumptions
Next step
Talk it through with us
Bring your numbers. We will tell you straight whether dinners beat a hire for your program.