Scribes See Moderate Earnings Growth
June 28th, 2001
By Dave McNary
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Hollywood's writers, who recently took the industry to the brink of a strike before accepting a modest contract renewal, saw aggregate 2000 earnings rise a moderate 3.9% to $773.6 million.
``For the third year in a row, writing for film and television was a steady-state enterprise,'' the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) reported to its nearly 9,000 members. ``The employment levels and earnings changed very little.''
Median earnings for a working writer fell 1.7% to $85,000 from $86,456, while 5% of working writers -- about 226 -- took in over $575,000, an increase of 8.5%. By contrast, wages for all U.S. workers rose an average of 4.2% in 2000.
The number of dues-paying WGAW members rose 1.8% to 8,968, with 4,549 of those reporting earnings (up 0.2%).
TV work was up 2.1% to $361 million; feature work rose 4.6% to $387.6 million; pay TV jumped 55% to $12.4 million.
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HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Hollywood's writers, who recently took the industry to the brink of a strike before accepting a modest contract renewal, saw aggregate 2000 earnings rise a moderate 3.9% to $773.6 million.
``For the third year in a row, writing for film and television was a steady-state enterprise,'' the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) reported to its nearly 9,000 members. ``The employment levels and earnings changed very little.''
Median earnings for a working writer fell 1.7% to $85,000 from $86,456, while 5% of working writers -- about 226 -- took in over $575,000, an increase of 8.5%. By contrast, wages for all U.S. workers rose an average of 4.2% in 2000.
The number of dues-paying WGAW members rose 1.8% to 8,968, with 4,549 of those reporting earnings (up 0.2%).
TV work was up 2.1% to $361 million; feature work rose 4.6% to $387.6 million; pay TV jumped 55% to $12.4 million.
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