Fees
A per-person programme rate that falls as the consortium grows
Seat pricing is calculated per person and per course. Each seat gives one person a place at every course in the programme, the recordings and their attendance record. The rate improves as the consortium fills.
Per person, per course
From $50
At the upper end of a consortium’s size. Smaller groups pay more per seat, which is precisely why the consortium exists. A full season works out at $600 to $800 per person.
Your rate follows the number of seats the consortium holds and how much it commissions. Figures are Canadian dollars, before tax.
How the rate is determined
A presenter charges the same fee for twenty people or four hundred
That single fact determines everything below it. A specialist’s fee, a designed curriculum and a season of scheduling cost what they cost. Dividing them across a consortium brings the figure per person down to something a practice recognises.
It works upward as well. A larger group funds better presenters and wider coverage than one firm would commission alone, so sharing raises the standard of a programme at the same time as it lowers the figure per person.
A practice buying alone
Most practices are too small to fill a programme, which leaves three options: premium per-head rates for individual courses, a library of recordings people work through in the background, or a partner assembling a year from what happens to be available.
A consortium is how a small practice reaches a large firm’s programme.
The ceiling
A consortium closes at 500 seats, and we open another
If the figure per person were the only consideration, a consortium would grow without limit. Past a point the sessions stop being worth attending: nobody reaches the presenter, nobody puts a question, and a course becomes something a person could have watched later.
So a consortium is built to about 500 seats and is then complete. Firms arriving after that go into the next one. The ceiling is what keeps the saving from coming out of the programme.
500
Seats in a complete consortium. Enough to fund a strong programme, few enough that a question still gets answered.
95%+ of member firms renew each year, which is the clearest evidence the balance is right.
Commercial terms
Four things worth knowing before you ask for a figure
- The rate follows the size of the group
- A four-person practice sits in the same programme as a hundred-person firm and pays for four seats. What each firm pays per seat depends on how many seats the consortium holds in total.
- Seats may be added mid-programme
- Where a firm hires, or somebody unexpected needs hours, a seat is added during the programme and priced for the courses that remain.
- Smaller practices are grouped
- Give us your headcount and we bring together firms wanting a comparable programme, so a small practice reaches a rate it could not reach independently.
- One invoice, to the firm
- The firm holds the seats and decides who fills them. Your people never deal with a payment.
Payment terms, and the basis on which seats added part way through are priced, are set out in the agreement for your consortium. What a programme includes covers the rest.
Get a figure for your practice
The rate follows the size of the consortium and what it commissions, so an accurate answer needs your headcount. Give us that and we will price a programme for you.
Or email admin@pdconsortium.com with your firm and headcount, or call +1 (416) 306-2072.