Updated 2020.09.28
The electrician, the woodworker, the musician and the painter... they have to pay for supplies, their schooling, the overhead of the place where they do their work, for mandatory insurance, and so on...
And as does the medium.
While each of the above persons has a gift, they have to charge for it to keep offering it to the world in a respectable way. To upkeep their supplies, to keep their practice up and running, to put up every month for the utilities that light the very room you sit in.
Every one of those individuals above isn't a heartless animal either.
They still give free health advice to their daughters, old tubes of paint to their sister, and take people who reach out with no money, under their wing.
And as does the medium.
When you get into the upper tiers of pricing, there can be many reasons for why a particular medium may charge more for their sessions than other mediums do.
Below are a few reasons why reading prices vary -
demand management
Once a medium gets to a certain level in their business, they have to figure out how to deal with managing the number of people who want readings with the number of hours in the day and the amount of energy in their bank.
Upping your lower pricing limit can help to meter bookings and allow your clients to get in faster or conversely, to manage demand, you could lower your pricing limit, but then have a 1.5 year waiting list instead for people to get in. There are benefits and drawbacks in both, but when demand gets high enough, a strategy must be formed and higher pricing is one of them.
business utility costs
There is a lot more than meets the eye for what goes into each and every hour session delivered.
In my post, What Really Goes into Your Private Reading, I mention that most psychics generally spend somewhere between 2-5 hours time in dealing with the admin of a single session, so this behind the scenes time often gets wrapped into pricing unmentioned.
The bigger a medium gets, the more time and energy they often spend in preparing for, hosting, administering, staffing, and/or facilitating their sessions, so those sessions cost more.
There are also costs related to internet, electricity, water and other utilities that go into providing a space for the service.
spirit management
In addition to the regular business oversight every business owner has to deal with, the deceased people that particular medium you are dealing with, may show up weeks in advance, and harass them for days before the session even begins.
A higher price reading may include wrapped in spirit babysitting fees, or more bluntly put, the cost of having to deal with other people's Spirit people hanging around you, your family and your kids for a week. While I love them the Spirit people can be highly disruptive at times.
practitioner wellness
Raised prices may be a sign of a psychic who is emotionally buffering their sessions. As a psychic medium grows in their business, they get more sensitive and thus wellness and preventative costs go up to keep them at their best.
Dealing with all the emotions, anger, sadness, grief, heartache and pain that comes through your door can take a harder emotional toll, the longer you go on and to go on you have to care for your wellness.
Over time, many mediums complete fewer readings each day, *but* the readings they do are better, more detailed, and more invested. Also, it is more expensive since there is wellness buffering for the practitioner.
So I hope this explanation helps a bit with your understanding and before we go and decide to slam people who can't afford the service:
Know there's always someone within your price range. If you just need to hear from your grandmother, you don't need to book with someone out of your price range. Check local shops, which act as low-cost clinics, ask around with friends, or seek out a few newbies who need practice in the Facebook groups.
How much do mediums charge?
On average the going rate for an hour reading is anywhere between $185-500/hr with the overall price of a reading depending on many different factors.
There are people who practice mediumship for a hobby and these folks usually don't require fees for their services, however, if you are seeking a full-time trained professional to perform your reading, a sitting fee is both the cost of doing business and an expected business practice.
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