I know that at least one pool in our area costs roughly $300 per hour to rent for meets once you add up facility rental, security, janitorial, utilities etc.
Assuming an average of, conservatively say, 20 minutes per heat and 8 swimmers per heat that's only $480 income per hour of competition. That doesn't account for incomplete heats, warm-up time before the first swim or warm-down after the last swim or time to clear the building afterwards etc.
I would estimate that, in the local pool I'm talking about that at $20 per swimmer, the meet director would be losing money during the 1500meter event.
I know that at least one pool in our area costs roughly $300 per hour to rent for meets once you add up facility rental, security, janitorial, utilities etc.
Assuming an average of, conservatively say, 20 minutes per heat and 8 swimmers per heat that's only $480 income per hour of competition. That doesn't account for incomplete heats, warm-up time before the first swim or warm-down after the last swim or time to clear the building afterwards etc.
I would estimate that, in the local pool I'm talking about that at $20 per swimmer, the meet director would be losing money during the 1500meter event.
