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LA editors…hourly or day rate?
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[grinner hester] “How the heck did you land such a high payin first gig, Bob!?
My first salaried position was far less than minimum wage after the hours and I brought home a cool $270/week. “My first gig was CNN at a whopping $15,000/year. And I had plenty of spending money at the time. Not sure how we did it…..
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Editors in LA don’t make 450 a week… interns do. While there are lots of editors in LA, there is lots of work too. As stated earlier, $750/day is the middle of the road norm there. Some demand more, some settle for less. Nobody will get in the red to go to work though.
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My first paying job was by the hour and minimum wage was 3.35 per hour at that time. No raises were ever given at ther local affilates in Lubbock Texas. None. Noting the night time director raked in the most cash because he’d been there for decades, his 6 bucks an hour was not much of a arrot for me so I moved up to that salaried position I told ya about. 18k a year devided by 80 hour weeks, brother…
at least I didn’t have time to spend money.
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ahhh the good ole daze. When artists made art because they were artists, not because they were dumb enough to believe the tv shows that showed vidiots makin cizash.
When I hear a youngan ask “how much money can I make in video?” I think “skys da limit but you aint gonna make any at this.” If passion is the motivator, the bills will simply be paid. If money is the motivator, they make neck-ties so people can pretend to like their jobs in trade for currency. -
Yep, the shows are basically cut by interns.
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John,
That seems like an accurate range from what I’ve been seeing so far.
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According to Uncle Ted Turner’s autobiography, vj’s were dealing coke in the 80’s to pay the bills. By the time I was there in ’96-97, they had downgraded to harmless marijuana. At that point they were paying us 20k instead of 15k, so perhaps that extra 5k bought us a tad bit more integrity!
Remember how they’d give a 3 or 4% raise and then say “Don’t tell anybody, but we like you and were able to pull some strings for you”. My response was “4 percent of zero still doesn’t add up to much, Joe…”.
That said, looking back, it was still one of the most fun times of my life.
John
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[John Davidson] “That said, looking back, it was still one of the most fun times of my life. “
As Patrick Greenlaw once told me during a commercial break, “This is the best paid graduate school in the world.”
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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I’m not sure how it is in CA. But here in Tucson, AZ We do both. depending on the job. and don’t worry we all get those looks too when we say “day Rate” some people look like they have just smelled something funny. Video Production here is $125.00 hr and 400 half day and 800 – 950 full day. unless we work with our compeditors then it goes between 200/half and 400/full. pretty wimpy huh?
Hawke Taylore
http://www.TayloreStudios.com
http://www.AudioVisualConsortium.com
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