{"id":919,"date":"2019-12-12T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2019\/12\/12\/average-creative-wage-is-apparently-35k\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T17:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:36:43","slug":"average-creative-wage-is-apparently-35k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2019\/12\/12\/average-creative-wage-is-apparently-35k\/","title":{"rendered":"Average creative wage is apparently \u00a335K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>If you ever really want to spoil your day, simply do a little research into how much other people doing the same job as you get paid. Because unless you&#8217;re exceptionally brilliant \u2013 or fortunate \u2013 you&#8217;ll find that there are plenty of people earning a lot more than you for more or less the same work. Such is the way of the world.<\/p>\n<p>In that spirit, here&#8217;s an infographic from Liberty Games that tots up the average wage for 50 assorted jobs across the creative industries, and which might have you heading for our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/news\/creative-bloqs-job-of-the-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">design jobs page<\/a>. Its UK creative wage chart covers jobs in everything from design through to marketing, TV and even the theatre, and ranks jobs from the highest earners \u2013 film and TV directors, coining it in at \u00a357,589 \u2013 down to the lowest, who according to Liberty Games are fashion designers, bringing in an average of \u00a320,716.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<figure data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vanilla.futurecdn.net\/creativebloq\/media\/img\/missing-image.svg\" alt=\"Creative jobs wage chart \" class=\"expandable lazy-image lazy-image-loading lazyload optional-image\" onerror=\"if(this.src &amp;&amp; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\" sizes=\"auto\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/vanilla.futurecdn.net\/creativebloq\/media\/img\/missing-image.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Ao3sUY2kdsv83RuAscFrWM-320-80.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Ao3sUY2kdsv83RuAscFrWM-320-80.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Ao3sUY2kdsv83RuAscFrWM-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Ao3sUY2kdsv83RuAscFrWM-970-80.jpg 970w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Ao3sUY2kdsv83RuAscFrWM.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Ao3sUY2kdsv83RuAscFrWM.jpg\"\/><\/p><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Ever thought of becoming a news anchor? (Click the top right-hand corner to enlarge) <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Liberty Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things aren&#8217;t looking a lot better than that for graphic designers, who according to Liberty Games&#8217; numbers earn an average of \u00a328,569. If you fancy earning a little more then maybe you should switch to illustration; the average illustrator earns \u00a330,954.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-widget\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<p>Meanwhile web designers are laughing all the way to the bank at \u00a337,810, web developers are even better off at \u00a339,825, while we imagine that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/career\/art-director-11121180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">art directors<\/a> are diving, Scrooge McDuck-style, into their swimming pools full of money on their average \u00a342,209.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Games says that the average creative salary is \u00a335,182; feeling a little under-valued? To be fair, having seen the assertion that journalists pull in an average of \u00a334,667, we feel your pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, before you storm your boss&#8217;s office and demand a pay rise (check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/career\/salary-negotiation-81516488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">salary negotiation tips<\/a> first), bear in mind that averages don&#8217;t always tell a reliable story. They&#8217;re likely to cover a wide range of salaries, from ones much lower than yours to outlier rockstar roles offering silly money, so they&#8217;re not generally a useful thing to measure your own salary against.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can get a closer look at Liberty Games&#8217; wage chart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertygames.co.uk\/blog\/creative-wage-chart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. If you feel you&#8217;re not earning enough and the infographic doesn&#8217;t give you much hope of a pay rise, though, maybe you should think about refocusing your career. We&#8217;re off to become drama teachers; those guys are rolling in it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/news\/do-you-earn-more-or-less-than-the-average-creative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] If you ever really want to spoil your day, simply do a little research into how much other people doing the same job as you get paid. Because unless you&#8217;re exceptionally brilliant \u2013 or fortunate \u2013 you&#8217;ll find that there are plenty of people earning a lot more than you for more or less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-economy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/e928cfdc7rs.exactdn.com\/info\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Average-creative-wage-is-apparently-\u00a335K-scaled.jpg?strip=all","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2TFCd-eP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}