An interesting argument.
But here's the thing: wage decline will eventually have a negative effect for our clients, and for television programming generally, because it ultimately will discourage senior professionals from remaining in the editing area of the field. When folks like me find that they can't have a decent, secure middle-class standard of living, they will look around for other things to do. I myself may be stuck in what's been called "the prior investment trap," but other talented people who are younger than I may decide that they should exercise other options, particularly if they want to have children. The end result will be brain drain, as editing becomes the province people under 35. And editorial brain drain is generally bad news for producers and directors, because it will force them to work with slower, less creatively experience, less productive personnel. Ultimately, that can be bad for your budget and timeline.
I do understand that much of this decline has to do with the breakup of the television market into tiny pieces, and that my clients are struggling with reduced budgets and compressed timelines. I have great love and respect for my clients, and I know how hard they work. I also understand that their wages have gone down as well. I guess one could argue that if we all need to find ways to create value for our clients as well as ourselves, that perhaps we also need to find a way to create value for Discovery, and The History Channel, so that they can pay us more. But somehow, I have trouble believing that those outfits are hurting so bad they can't even give the people who work for them a cost of living increase.
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson Chao <wilsonchao@gmail.com>
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 8:23 am
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor rates in your area?
With all due respect, if you're solely suggesting a "move to raise
rates," I don't see how that will "create more value" for our CLIENTS.
And without our CLIENTS receiving/perceiving more value, it's hard to
justify anything more for US.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@aol.com> wrote:
Maybe there's a way we can create more value for ourselves. But I
don't think we can do it individually. I'm not suggesting a union
(I've done that and didn't like it much), but perhaps just a enough
networking that the move to raise rates comes from a lot of the top
editors in a given area at once, so there's more pressure.
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