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
CBS News
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From: bouke <bouke@editb.nl>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.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>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.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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