Re: [Avid-L2] Editor rates in your area?

From my experience, non-union network reality editors make around $3K per
week, 5 days a week, 10 hours a day. The weekly rate is pretty volatile
depending on all sorts of things, but 3K is generally what I hear.

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@aol.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I've decided that it's time to turn to the ample resources of this list to
> explore what other editors like me charge. I realize this question can be a
> delicate one, so I'm not asking anyone to share with me what they
> themselves make, just what you understand to be commonly accepted rates in
> your area. And if you chose to respond, I leave it up to you whether you
> wish to get back to me via the L, or offlist, if that is more comfortable.
> And I will only direct this inquiry to US editors, since there's probably
> not too much point in attempting to decipher international rates.
>
> If you do respond, I'd like to know to which markets these rates apply.
> And I'm looking for rates for the following kinds of work, whether by the
> hour, day (8 or 10 hour), or week:
>
> 1) Documentary offline
> 2) Documentary online
> 3) Cable broadcast offline, i.e., History Channel, Discovery, and the like
> 4) Cable broadcast online
> 5) Advertising offline (real broadcast, not web pieces)
> 6) Advertising online
>
> So you have some idea of my background, I've been in the industry over 30
> years, have pretty diverse offline/online experience that includes the
> brackets listed above, as well as long and short form broadcast work for
> the local PBS affiliate, corporate, and public interest media. I would
> consider myself part of the "upper middle" of senior editing professionals
> in my area, certainly not a household word anywhere away from home, but
> enough of a known quantity in my own market that 95% of my work is referral
> from other happy customers.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any information you can share!
>
> Best,
> Shirley
>
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