How much pay constitutes a 500 mile round trip to a gig ...

Age: 46. Posts: 1162. Well, unless the gig is an afternoon affair, you need hotel rooms for the night-$75... IRS travel deductible is about 50¢/mile MOL, x500 miles=$250... this is assuming you're traveling by yourself. Otherwise, split this money ... For years I played anywhere that would book me. After a while I noticed that on the rare occasions that a crap gig played for "exposure" (i.e. no money, not much or no crowd) led to another gig...that gig was also crap. ...