“Of course it has, and will, and when you make a simcha, b’sha’h tovah, you’ll do the necessary research to find out what it is at that time.”
OK. I took the bait. I asked my Rav who married off a child in the last 12 months. I asked him point blank, what is the halachicly specified going rate to give to a shadchan in OUR community. He answered that to the best of his knowledge, there is no halachicly set rate. He said he asked his own Rav who told him that he gets the sense that there is a going range, but no specific set rate, so, absent any prior agreed upon amount, and depending on ones financial situation they should use their seichel whether to give from the lower end of the range or from the higher.
“Thats an amazing idea. Work on it!”
I’m not “the rabbonim”, or a member of said group. Nor am I a shadchan with any vested interest in such a takana being created. Apparantly the Rabbonim see no need to institute such a takana either. so, I throw it back to the whining shadchanim to work on it, if they feel it is needed.