@fcw said:
I believe there are only four legitimate ways to get the information the original poster wanted: negotiate individually with your customers; adjust your prices, and see what effect it has on your business; use standard rates, based on surveys published by reputable trade or professional bodies; and read an independent survey of what typical rates are, conducted by a journalist not in the line of business, and published somewhere where customers are as likely to see it as suppliers.
Well, though it is the Canadian League of Composers, not the Canadian Music Centre (as I mistakenly mentioned above), there is a publicly-available fee schedule for commissioning Canadian composers:
http://www.clc-lcc.ca/commissioning-rates.php
All of the funding bodies recognize this as an official guideline, though it's obviously not adhered to in all cases. However, this really is for commissioning new works, which I think most would agree is a much bigger job than arranging and copying.
Anyway, I've already requested this thread be deleted, so maybe the mods will do so...
We'll see.... J.