High School Yearbook prices (inspired by class ring thread)

[KarenB]

I was reading the thread about class rings and was wondering what you are paying for your child's high school yearbook. The price in our small town in $50!! Quite a payment when you have two high schoolers!

Karen

 

[grinningghost]

Yep. 50 bucks here too. And last year's book was FULL of misprints. I kid you not, there must have been 100 misspelled names in the book. And not a letter here or there - completely screwed up names.

DD said the yearbook committee was at fault, and if that's the case, then they better have a whole new committee this year - because it was really bad.

 

[swilphil]

That's about the going rate for a yearbook. I used to be a yearbook adviser, and it's the printing companies that are making the profit. One school I was at actually lost quite a bit of money on the yearbook because sales weren't very good. The cost per yearbook is considerably more if you have a small school. It doesn't cost that much more to print 2,000 yearbooks vs. 500 yearbooks. It might cost $60,000 to print 2,000 yearbooks, and $30,000 to print 500. One thing that has been really successful in many schools is to sell advertising, especially senior ads or group ads. You know where parents put the kids' baby pictures in or teams dress up in funny outfits.

P.S. Many of the same companies who sell yearbooks also sell class rings, like Jostens and Herff Jones. I'm not sure about Taylor. Those are the big three in yearbooks, with Walsworth catching up.

 

[Blondie]

Middle school is $22, high school is $55. They are advance order prices with their names engraved on the front.

 

[bballmom56]

The HS yearbook was $90 last year, but it is a beautiful book. It was through Josten's. I asssume it will be about the same this year. DS did add having his name and a basketball insignia embossed on the cover - I think that added about $7.

 

[Nancy]

Just paid $50 for each of mine (2 in HS)

 

[Molly Meow]

When I was in high school (1994-1998), each year the yearbook was $53 if you paid at the beginning of the year (you got your name embossed in gold on the front), and $75 if you waited until the day they were handed out.

The yearbooks were pitiful. We only had like 200 students, so they obviously weren't big. NOT worth the price, but I do have one from every year. They were all black and white.

The only school in my town that offers yearbooks is the high school, none of the younger grades have them.

 

[Cindy B]

Back 16 years ago, it was about $60. The school was huge, and it was a big book.

My middle school's yearbook is about $25/30. (I don't buy it the students do eagerly!)

i have no idea what the high school yearbook costs.

 

[dzneelvr]

Ours is $35 but it is a very amateurish production. Mostly black and white photos that have been taken personally and submitted--so you get some out of focus. What bugs me most is that the club that sponsors the book also controls the content, so you see those students in almost every page somewhere, while others get no print time.
A waste if you ask me, but it's the only memory book you can purchase each year with stats, etc. My DH and I take mucho pictures of the DD and DS throughout the year in their various events, so that is something, anyway.
As for the rings--total scam--I've told my DD and DS to wait until their college ring. Take it from experience, as soon as you graduate from HS, all things HS get relegated to a back drawer, and that includes a class ring no matter how much you spent on it.
DS has his letter jacket full of the award patches; DD just started HS so not sure where she'll want to put her patches yet.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

The yearbook where I work costs $50.
Where I LIVE, the elementary yearbooks cost $10, and the jr. high yearbook costs $25--so my cost this year is $45. I have heard our HS yearbook is $75! It better be solid gold for that much money!
Robin M.

 

[msdznyduck]

Just paid $62 each for 2 HS yearbooks. Done by Taylor.........they really did a great job with last yrs (DS did not get one in 9th grade, so none to compare). Since it is 400 pages and 1 1/2" thick, it is quite a large book. (DS is a Junior this year, and there is about 650 in his class....DD is a Freshman and there are about 800 in her class)----at this rate Graduation will be a 2 nighter.