[Avid-L2] Re: Not to say "I told you so...."

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Quinsee-Jover" <tony@...> wrote:

<<So why is the 3D work farmed out? Purely price?>>

It's all about the price. Editors like Steve have been wishing to work from home for years. And I have been warning them for years to be careful what they wish for. Once a producer gets used to the idea that he never needs to step in the edit bay, that bay can be in Chicago, OR India.

Mean annual household income: 34,551 rupees. ($735)

So let's go out on a limb and say the editor you want is getting 10 times the average household income. Wow, he would cost you 7,350 a year! That means you could get 10 editors for what you would pay 1 over here. (Based on the following links)

I found this answer to an earlier editor pay rate question while researching the India pay rates. This is for the US from <<http://www.careeroverview.com/editor-careers.html>>:

Approximate annual salaries for all camera operators ranged from $15,000 for the bottom ten percent to $65,000 for the top ten percent. In 2002, middle earnings ranged between $21.000 and $51,000. Salaries in the motion picture industry were generally higher than those in the television and radio broadcasting industry.

Approximate annual salaries for video and film editors range from $20,000 for the bottom ten percent to $78,000 for the top ten percent. In 2002, middle earnings ranged between $27,000 and $55,000. Editors in the motion picture industry earned an approximate $41,000.

Many camera operators are freelancers whose salaries vary from year to year. Freelance camera operators have to provide their own equipment and thus have more expenses than camera operators employed by a studio. Operators often are members of unions such as the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

Also check out:

<<http://www.salarylist.com/all-video-editor-real-jobs-salary.htm>>

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