Buyout Seasonal Weighting & Compensation Insights

How the seasonal weighted-average that drives vendor compensation is built — event month at full weight (1.0), each adjacent shoulder month at 0.50 (the live setting), with July & August dropped as shoulders unless the event lands in them. Below: the live formula settings, then an interactive sandbox to explore how the blend behaves.

The live buyout formula
Current settings
Production buyout-compensation formula (same across all three hubs).
Event month weight1.0
Shoulder month weight0.50
July / August shouldersdropped*
Pre-event runway1 hr
Teardown30 min
*unless the event itself lands in July or August.
How the blend works
Each comp rate for a day & timeframe is a weighted average of the event month and its two neighbors.
Event month1.0
Shoulder −10.50
Shoulder +10.50
The event month is ~50% of the blend, each neighbor ~25%. July & August are skipped as neighbors — dropped, not replaced — unless the event lands in them.

The numbers in the sandbox below are an illustrative Phoenix seasonal curve so the shape is realistic out of the box — edit any month to match this venue’s own POS. Manager reference; not shown to tenants.

Interactive sandbox — try your own numbers

Scenario

Shoulder-month weight (event month stays 1.0)

Avg $ for that hour, by month

Auto-filled from the seasonal curve when you change the event month. Edit any value, or reset.

Annual sales shape — $/hr by month

Representative Phoenix venue year: busy Nov–Apr, dead Jul–Aug. The 3 highlighted bars are the event month (gold) and its two shoulders (blue / striped-red if excluded).

Weighted blend

event month · weight 1.0 shoulder · weight 0.75 excluded
$0

Summary