Stupid Guest Tricks

hobie16 wrote:There is a god!!

:indyhat: ;)

Oh good gravy, ya'll are still auguring about this?
Geeze, I can't even go away for the weekend ;)

Ok. Here's the nice way of looking at this. Let's do the math.

Disney employs approximately 65,000 cast members.

Let's get wild and say each cast member gets paid $7.67 an hour, FL's minimum wage.

65,000 x 7.67 = 498, 550

Let's say each cast member works an 8 hour shift.

498,550 x 8 = 3,988,400

That's almost $4 million in WAGES alone.

You pay $80 for a ticket. Less if you're a kid. And with park hopper tickets, even LESS.

4,000,000 / 80 = 50,000

So, your tickets don't even pay Disney's employee's.

ForJustADollarMore wrote:Ok. Here's the nice way of looking at this. Let's do the math.

Disney employs approximately 65,000 cast members.

Let's get wild and say each cast member gets paid $7.67 an hour, FL's minimum wage.

65,000 x 7.67 = 498, 550

Let's say each cast member works an 8 hour shift.

498,550 x 8 = 3,988,400

That's almost $4 million in WAGES alone.

You pay $80 for a ticket. Less if you're a kid. And with park hopper tickets, even LESS.

4,000,000 / 80 = 50,000

So, your tickets don't even pay Disney's employee's.

Not to knit pick, oh, heck, I love to knit pick...anyway. Not all 65000 cm's are working on the same day. That said...the number is staggering even if one has the real numbers. Add on top of that, matching federal contributions, workers comp. expense (even if self insured), insurance, costuming, training, prozac and so on. and it probably comes close to those numbers. Besides that everyone know that it is the parking fees that pay the rest of the bills.

Your math also states that it takes 50000 guests paying $80 per day to cover that cost. There are probably a lot less than that paying the full price.

Goofyernmost wrote:Add on top of that, matching federal contributions, workers comp. expense (even if self insured), insurance, costuming, training, prozac and so on.

That's known as the fully burdened cost. Basically, take an employee's wage before any deductions, double it, and you've got the fully burdened cost.

I think we should all get to vote on what Mr. D's salary should be, based on what we think his work is worth.

Goofyernmost wrote:Not to knit pick, oh, heck, I love to knit pick...anyway.

It's "nit pick," as in examining something carefully and removing all the nits (tiny problems). Goes back to delousing your friends -- nits are the eggs. :whistlng: :D:

shilohmm wrote:It's "nit pick," as in examining something carefully and removing all the nits (tiny problems). Goes back to delousing your friends -- nits are the eggs. :whistlng: :D:

Speaking of "nit picking"...I'm glad I'm not the only one. :p: I'm too damn old to be retrained. :)

Don't forget the cost of upkeep and maintenence for when rides go 101. Then there's union scale pay--Disney is a union shop, right?--insurance, taxes, etc.. Oh, then there's the salaries for other personnel, like those at the Alpha Center/First Aid, security, and all those who work behind the scenes. Unless you work at Knott's, a maintenence person is not going to work for minimum wage. I remember talking to maintenence guys and train engineers when I worked at Knott's, and they said if they could get a job doing what they were doing on the outside, they'd be making three times what they were making at Knott's. Go figure.

I heard something interesting this week--the thing you criticize in others is what you hate in yourself. Kind of like if you're fat (like me) and you see another person who's fatter than you, you think what a visual obscenity that person is, why don't they take better care of themselves, etc..

Also, the rides used tocost something to get on, and with the cost of the rides included in the price of admission, that's why the admission fee is so high.

So far only salaries have been addressed. How about cost of goods and services (COGS) like food, debt service, taxes, and a little thing like electricity?