What is the salary for a rock bass guitar player?

Answer 1

Short answer: from none to $100 a gig.

It depends on a lot of things. The biggest factor is how good your band is. A bass doesn't usually play solo, and people don't usually ask for solo bass players, but there are a lot of people asking for bands to play. If your band is experienced in music and gigging, then it is likely you can find gigs at bars and clubs where each member is paid $50-$100 a night, sometimes even more. Basically, the better your music, the better you are paid. You also need some experience in finding gigs and marketing yourself as a band to get better pay and more frequent gigs.

Another factor is your fan base. Bands with a bigger fan base will be able to market themselves better, because the venues will have more people visiting their site due to the people following your band. If you bring fifty fans to a bar every time you play, you can charge more. If you bring no one and scare away half the people who are there, bars will either only take you for free or will refuse to let you play in their venue.

Another factor is your genre. Some venues are looking for all genres, but most are looking for a particular genre, or a few particular genres, because that is what they believe will draw more customers. For example, bars typically like extremely danceable music, because bar goers want to dance. This all depends on the venue and the crowd, and what they all want, and can vary from bar to bar.

The more famous your band gets, and the more fans you have, the more you will be able to ask, and the bigger venues you will be able to play, such as concert halls or huge music festivals.

Also note that you will depend on being in a band until you are one of the world's greatest bass players, when you can finally gig solo concerts which would make a huge profit. Another option is to teach Bass Guitar, but note that in order to teach it, it is best you took lessons. This is only because there are teaching techniques that are only learned by going through them.

Answer 2

The range of pay for bass players varies from nothing to millions of dollars a year. As a rule, most musicians will not earn enough money to live comfortably and are unfortunately unable to rely on making much money using their talents.

Answer 3

Mostly around 2 to 3,000 dollars a concert.