Spin Magazine has a pretty interesting article this month highlighting what folks in the music industry make. Anyone else see this? Obviously I am interested in it, and from the limited knowledge that I have it seems kind of accurate. What they did was take anonymous people willing to share what they make, and then asked them the pro’s and con’s about their specific job.
Some of the highlights for me were the Music Blogger making $35,000 a year, the Rappers Bodyguard making $150,000 a year, and the (twenty year) Veteran Touring Artist making $40,000 a year. This list goes on from merchandise seller to photographers to the band managers, and from what I can tell they seem pretty close. The online version doesn’t have all the positions but there are a bunch. I assume most of this is general market, mainstream music, but I don’t think the “Christian Market” is much different in most of it. Except for maybe the rappers bodyguard. I don’t know what Toby pays.
My only question is where I fall into this scale.
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