2017 Wage Survey - image courtesy opedge.com Thanks to everyone that completed the 2017 on-line wage survey! A record number of responses were received this year! The response rate this year was 30% ( 1831 responses to 6128 survey...
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| 2017 Wage Survey - image courtesy opedge.com |
The response rate this year was 30% ( 1831 responses to 6128 survey requests ). Many more surveys were sent out this year as compared with 2016 (33% response rate, 1518 responses out of 4650 requests sent out). By comparison, the 2015 response rate was 30%, with 1293 survey responses received.
This year there was a huge jump in responses, thanks to members taking 10 minutes out of their day to share valuable information.
The 2017 wage survey and some highlights: ...
-- 2017 Member Wage Survey, Highlighted Roles --
---Role---------- Minimum -- Median -- Maximum --
Staff Writers (TV) - $1300 - $2250 - $4200
Timing Directors - $1500 - $2250 - $3200
Production Board - $1250 - $2117 - $2700
Revisionists - $974 - $1600 - $2300
Character Layout - $889 - $2100 - $2800
BG Layout/Design - $1000 - $1955 - $2877
Art Directors - $1500 - $2275 - $4200
Technical Directors - $977 - $1944 - $4300
Character TDs - $880 - $2051 - $3092
Lighting Artists - $1177 - $2222 - $3071
3D Compositors - $1475 - $1943 - $2311
3D Animators - $1066 - $2052 - $3500
3D Modelers - $1320 - $1938 - $2666
Overall, reported wage medians tended to increase over last year's results, with a few exceptions.
The 2016 and 2017 wage surveys can be found here.
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