An audio mixer here just bailed a few months back to become a plumber.
One of the best finishing editors took up driving truck a few years back.
Life is rough. Never went into broadcast for the money but it is getting
down right silly. Welders in Fort Mac $130/hour last I heard and that
was a couple of years ago.
DD
On 7/9/2012 1:55 PM, Alan Miller wrote:
>
> Bouke,
> Unfortunately, plumbers in the US make much more than we do.
> Most are over $100 and hour. At least in the NY Metro area.
> Alan
>
> Alan Miller
> 48 Hours Mystery
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>
> ________________________________
> From: bouke <bouke@editb.nl <mailto:bouke%40editb.nl>>
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 3:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor rates in your area?
>
> Ok,
> Call me an arrogant asshole (which i happen to be).
> But 50 to 60 bucks an hour is more than i make.
> (and yes, i charge 150 an hour for small jobs (less than 2 hours), but
> that
> includes my studio, and a shitload of experience.)
> Sad news is, i never ever get this amount of money when i calculate my
> unbillable hours (I study at least one day a week, and i never get
> paid for
> my fuckups, let alone ingesting/rendering/social/stuff i do to make it
> so my
> name can get on the credits without me complainig to leave it off, that
> never leads to more work...).
> Editing is/was/will ever be a craftmans job, and unless you excel,
> this is
> what you get. (a plumbers wage.)
> Now if it drops below that, i'll become a plumber/electrician/carpenter.
> (plumbing i need to learn, the rest i can do with a one week course)
>
> To make it worse, a normal application coder (that i also do) does NOT
> make
> more money than this.
>
> IOW, earn some money, get a pretty dress, seduce a rich guy.
> (i married a doctor...)
>
> Bouke
>
> VideoToolShed
> van Oldenbarneveltstraat 33
> 6512 AS NIJMEGEN
> The Netherlands
> +31 24 3553311
> www.videotoolshed.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shirley Gutierrez" <guanacaa@aol.com <mailto:guanacaa%40aol.com>>
> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 9:30 PM
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor rates in your area?
>
> > Many thanks to all of you who have responded. I'm still curious to know
> > what goes in various areas, so I welcome more info if it's out there.
> >
> >
> > Indeed, it seems the rates vary pretty significantly from region to
> > region. But many of the rates I've seen in these replies are bad news,
> > because whether we're talking about 3K a week with the potential to
> work
> > 12 hour days, or $500 for ten hours, that's still a baseline rate of
> about
> > $50 per hour. I can tell you that editors in cable broadcast were
> earning
> > that in my relatively small market back in 1997, and I'm referring
> to the
> > precise amount, not an inflation adjusted number. The one outlier rate
> > posted, from the editor that quoted $700 a day for cable broadcast
> in the
> > LA market, seems more like what we should be making by now.
> >
> >
> > As an exercise, plug $50 into an inflation calculator, and you get
> $67.61
> > in 2010 dollars (which is as recent as calculator will go). I'm not the
> > greatest at math, so check me here, but doesn't this mean that some
> > editors are earning approximately 73% of what they made in the 90s?
> That's
> > not great news for the post production worker bee.
> >
> >
> > As many of you might have surmised, my inquiry was motivated by the
> > perception that it's high time to raise my own rates, which haven't
> budged
> > by a penny in 10 years. Is this a good idea? I'm just not sure, but it
> > would probably be easier to raise my rates if I weren't the only one
> doing
> > it. And something tells me that if cable broadcasters can pay $700 a
> day
> > in LA, they can probably pay it everywhere if they know they have to.
> >
> >
> > Thanks again for all the good info. This list, as always, is a
> proving to
> > be a real treasure.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > Shirley
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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