Change against 2025
A-Train
Dues and Member Benefits over three years
Membership dues have held and membership count rose, with 2025 bringing the largest increase. Meanwhile, Membership Benefits has grown faster, which is what the Membership Scenario Planner below is designed to bring into balance. *Membership Benefits are the face-value ticket prices for Member Tickets given free or at a discount, calculated on the club's published allowance rather than on how the box office coded each seat. The two differ, and both are reported below.
Total dues collected is the sum of every membership fee taken that year. It moves only with the number of memberships sold. The fee at each level is unchanged across all three years.
How each tier contributes
Membership Dues
Total dues collected by tier, 2025.
Ticket Benefits Used per Member, 2025, on the published allowance. Member tickets and discounted seats combined, divided by the members at that tier who came at least once. Hover any bar to see the allowance split against what the box office actually coded as free.
The Reach of A-Train Ticket Benefits
Net Revenue of Dues and Benefits Given
Total dues collected at each tier, less the ticket value delivered to that tier, 2025.
The members who use the most
2025, the ten heaviest users of the ticket benefit
Every figure in this table is for 2025 alone, not the three years together. Dues read at the single published rate for each tier, because nobody buys two memberships in a year: where the roster showed a member twice, the second payment was an early one covering the following year and has been moved to that year. Ticket value delivered is calculated on the published member benefit, not on what the box office coded — see Method.
Open your name key below, or on the Guests page, to see who these are. Net here includes what they spent on food and beverage, so it reads as dues plus food and beverage, less the ticket value delivered. It is the fuller picture of what a heavy user is worth, and it is a different measure from the program figure above, which deliberately leaves food and beverage out.
Membership Scenario Planner
Move the dues and the membership count at any tier
Everything starts at the actual 2025 figures. This is arithmetic, not a forecast. It holds each tier's benefit use per member at its observed 2025 rate and recalculates. It cannot tell you how members would react to a change in dues, which is a judgment for the board.
Two questions the board has to answer first
Neither of these can be read out of the export. Both change what the membership programme appears to cost, so they are set here rather than buried in a footnote. Every figure below and in the bar at the foot of the screen moves with them.
Assumed sell-out percentage of the room
Of members who use both free tickets, the share who still buy at the 10% discount
Retention and renewal
Memberships carried over from the prior year against memberships new that year.
| 2024 tier | Renewed | Moved up | Did not return | Renewal rate |
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What one member is worth
2025 net revenue per member, by tier
| Tier | Members | Outliers removed | Dues | Food & beverage | Tickets paid for | Cost of ticket benefit | Net per member | Median |
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Things the Data Shows
Method and assumptions
- Net Revenue of Dues and Benefits Given
- Total dues collected at a tier, less the retail value of the admission members at that tier received free or at a discount. It measures the membership program on its own terms and excludes food, beverage and the tickets members paid for, which are reported separately.
- Ticket value delivered
- A free admission is valued at the average price other guests actually paid for that same performance on that date. A member discount is valued at the amount discounted. Counting a free seat at full value assumes the room would otherwise have sold it, which the Scenario Planner exposes as an adjustable setting rather than burying it.
- The published member benefit, applied as written
- Every tier receives all of the Basic benefits and then its own member-ticket allowance on top, and the calculation here follows that structure member by member, performance by performance, in date order. The Basic benefits are a 10% discount on tickets, limited to two discounted tickets per performance and not combinable with a member ticket at the same performance, and a 10% discount on food and beverage. The member-ticket allowance is two per performance at every tier, and beyond that: Basic two a year at performances $50 and under; Sponsor ten a year, same ceiling; Patron unlimited, same ceiling; Platinum unlimited at performances $100 and under, with its own clause allowing 10% off additional tickets and tickets priced over $100, which is the one place the Basic no-combining limit is overridden. A ticket over a tier's ceiling is not free but still takes the Basic 10%. Seats past all of that carry no benefit. "Limit two per artist" is read as two per performance, the stricter reading on a night carrying an early and a late set.
- The food and beverage discount
- The 10% off food and beverage is a Basic benefit every tier inherits, and it was not costed in earlier versions of this report. Members spent $405,507 at the table in 2025, so the discount is worth about $45,056 a year, and $46,990 and $46,196 in 2023 and 2024. It is reported separately from the ticket benefit because the point-of-sale figure is the amount actually charged, already net of the discount: the money is not lost twice, and the per-member revenue figures on this page must not subtract it again.
- Why this figure is lower than the one previously reported
- The earlier version valued every seat the box office coded as an A-Train freebie at full face. The published entitlement is much narrower, mainly because a member ticket is free only below the price ceiling and because Basic and Sponsor are capped at two and ten a year. On the entitlement the 2025 ticket benefit is $367,970; valued as the box office actually coded it, the same seats come to $533,360. Calculated on one consistent basis the as-coded figures are $419,118, $473,217 and $533,360 against the $400,336, $474,518 and $534,443 previously published — within a third of a percent for 2024 and 2025, and 4.7% high for 2023, where the roster predates the customer-ID re-issue and some members do not map forward cleanly.
- Members who appear twice on a roster
- Nobody buys two memberships in a year. Where the roster carries a member twice at the same tier, the second payment is dues paid early for the following year and is counted in that year instead. This moves 11 payments worth $3,750 out of 2024 and 48 worth $31,500 out of 2025, the latter into 2026 and so outside this report. The 2023 roster is reported exactly as the club supplied it, at 585 Basic, 40 Sponsor, 23 Patron and 29 Platinum, so it continues to reconcile to the figure the club confirmed.
- Where benefit use is read from
- From the Etix and point of sale rows belonging to members on the roster. The workbook's separate "Member Disc." tabs were set aside: in all three years they share no Guest IDs at all with the membership roster, and they hold roughly an eighth of the A-Train activity that is already present in the full transaction export. Adding them to the transaction rows would count the same kind of activity twice, for people who are not on the roster.
- Memberships and members
- Memberships sold counts rows on the roster, which is the basis the club confirmed for 2023 at 585 Basic, 40 Sponsor, 23 Patron and 29 Platinum. Nobody buys two memberships in a year, so where a member appears twice at the same level the second payment is dues paid early for the following year and is counted there instead. For 2024 and 2025 that leaves memberships sold equal to distinct members, at 605 and 610.