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<blockquote data-quote="Per SÃ¸vik" data-source="post: 97335" data-attributes="member: 1285">Re: Money $$$$$Seems a fair rate for a demi demon <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />~<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />~:smile:One of my pet peeves is how little money people with a special skill and special talent are supposed to work for. The average rate in (smelter, mining and heavy) industry in the US is something like $28.50, here in Norway it is a bit more, about $35. That is what you get for working eight hour days and five days weeks with guaranteed pay for all your working hours, no talent requirement, on the job training etc. If you are a music teacher or singing coach, with teaching skills and the special talent that means you are among that 1% of the population that could possibly aspire to such a job, you are expected to work at a rate that is about 75% of industrial wages, and most of the time you will not be offered full time employment, so you need to have another job to pay the bills.Looking at my own skill level and amount of technical insight I&#039;d bring to a job, I consider a fair wage to be in the region of what Helge mentioned for an eight hour a day kind of job, (but no one in their right mind would ever pay me that kind of money). For an FOH guy or Monitor guy that is actually skilled and talented and delivers a stellar mix during a show, anything under $100 per hour is a joke.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Per SÃ¸vik, post: 97335, member: 1285"] Re: Money $$$$$ Seems a fair rate for a demi demon :)~:-)~:smile: One of my pet peeves is how little money people with a special skill and special talent are supposed to work for. The average rate in (smelter, mining and heavy) industry in the US is something like $28.50, here in Norway it is a bit more, about $35. That is what you get for working eight hour days and five days weeks with guaranteed pay for all your working hours, no talent requirement, on the job training etc. If you are a music teacher or singing coach, with teaching skills and the special talent that means you are among that 1% of the population that could possibly aspire to such a job, you are expected to work at a rate that is about 75% of industrial wages, and most of the time you will not be offered full time employment, so you need to have another job to pay the bills. Looking at my own skill level and amount of technical insight I'd bring to a job, I consider a fair wage to be in the region of what Helge mentioned for an eight hour a day kind of job, (but no one in their right mind would ever pay me that kind of money). For an FOH guy or Monitor guy that is actually skilled and talented and delivers a stellar mix during a show, anything under $100 per hour is a joke. [/QUOTE]

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