Hollywood Salaries

If you're a working stiff in the entertainment business, then according to the Reporter you'll pull down something like this:

LIVE-ACTION MEDIAN WEEKLY RATES

Feature Director -- $20,000

Storyboard Artist* -- $2600-$2800

TV Staff Writer -- $4,000

Camera Operator -- $1833

Boom Operator -- $1800

And if you're in the Southern California animation industry, these are the median rates as of last year (a new wage survey is in process):

ANIMATED MEDIAN WEEKLY RATES -- 2016

Feature Director -- $3500

TV Director -- $2400

Timing Director -- $2000

Feature Staff Writer -- $3100

TV Staff Writer -- $2200

B.G. Painter -- $1950

TV Production Board Artist -- $2047

Storyboard artist -- $2236

Comparing live-action wages to animation wages tends to be like comparing apples to apricots. Market rates and contract rates are all over the map, and highs and lows can take wild swings. There's also "New Media" to contend with. This tend to pull down mid-level figures.

* Not listed in the linked article, but based on what I know of the live-action contract under the Art Directors Guild