Week 3: Salary Trends

Broadcast and sound engineering technicians make about $41,200. Broadcast and sound engineering technicians set up, operate, and maintain the electrical equipment for radio and television broadcasts, concerts, sound recordings, movies and in office and school buildings. Editors make around $53,880, editors plan, review, and revise content for publication. Film and video editors and camera operators make $46,280, Film and video editors and camera operators manipulate images that entertain or inform an audience. Photographers make $28,490, photographers use their technical expertise, creativity, and composition skills to produce and preserve images that visually tell a story or record an event. Graphic Designers make about $44,150, graphic designers create visual concepts, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. They develop the overall layout and production design for advertisements, brochures, magazines, and corporate reports. Producers and directors make about $71,350, producers and directors create motion pictures, television shows, live theater, and other performing arts productions. They interpret a writer’s script to entertain or inform an audience. Audio and video equipment technicians make around $20.09 hourly, $41,780 annually. Audio and video equipment technicians install, adjust, and operate electronic equipment to record, edit, and transmit radio and television programs, motion pictures, video conferencing, or multimedia presentations. Diagnose and resolve media system problems. Switch sources of video input from one camera or studio to another, from film to live programming, or from network to local programming. Mix and regulate sound inputs and feeds or coordinate audio feeds with television pictures. Compress, digitize, duplicate, and store audio and video data.