Why is everyone in this thread comparing themselves to a popular ~60 year old director working in Hollywood?
Yes, it’s a good salary compared to the average person, but he’s not working an average job. He should be earning at least 5x more like his colleagues are.
This was his first movie. He wasn’t a big director. Also, he runs one of the big CGI/VFX studios, Blur, so if they were doing well he was making more than just his Deadpool salary.
Not when your primary work is irregular and you basically have to live and breath the work for the many months you are attached to it. Basically every waking hour you are on the clock, which makes the hourly rate pretty low.
In most salary roles you would be tenured with job security, and you would be covered by an appropriate award that limits the hours you work in a week.
In film production you get a job for a few months, and during those months you stay in a hotel or sleeper trailer, don’t get to see your family, and work from wake to sleep.
You would work potentially 18 hours, go back to your room to prep for the next day, then get what little sleep you can before doing it again. For months.
Then after all that you have no guarantee when your next job will be. Some industry professionals go years between jobs. It’s an extremely intense workload.
In my region salary comes with no protections, we have no fault termination. So quite often contractors are salaried for the three months they’re on then cut.
You’ll find a job and you might be there for 2 weeks or 4 months, who knows. Turnover everywhere is high as companies simply pay for GPT rather than hire developers, engineers, hr etc.
How??? He directed a movie for the biggest box office franchise in cinema history - a movie that went on to earn $782 million in the box office alone.
He earned $225,000 in two years of directing. That’s nothing.
What do you do for work? Because I think I need a career change.
I’m not just being snarky, but 6 figures USD would change my life.
Why is everyone in this thread comparing themselves to a popular ~60 year old director working in Hollywood?
Yes, it’s a good salary compared to the average person, but he’s not working an average job. He should be earning at least 5x more like his colleagues are.
Did he spend a decade uni with a PhD 🤨. I doubt it and I doubt his skills are any more exceptional than most.
Going rate for a first class SWE In most first world countries is ~30k USD. It’s an absolutely amazing salary.
I don’t know about the US, maybe the QOL there is much better than the media portrays, but I think that’s more than enough money.
This was his first movie. He wasn’t a big director. Also, he runs one of the big CGI/VFX studios, Blur, so if they were doing well he was making more than just his Deadpool salary.
Your second point is completely irrelevant. Many people have side-hustles. But that has nothing to do with what he was paid for: this movie.
Do you think it’s fair that any person ever makes 5x more than anyone else?
It’s about ten times what I used to make in one year.
Also, he had the chance to negotiate a contract. If he didn’t either stand for more up front, or take points on the back end, that’s on him.
So your salary is shit, but that doesn’t mean the director’s is amazing.
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Why didnt you negotiate for a better wage?
What kind of suggestion is this?
“You don’t earn a shitton of money? Well, why don’t you just ask for more?”
Well shit, why didn’t I think about that.
Did. That was the better wage.
That’s what I get for sticking with a job nobody else wants to do, wiping the asses of the elderly, disabled, and dying.
There’s plenty of directors available to direct MCU movies. There’s only one company making them. Not much leverage.
Very true.
The point of doing it wasn’t the direct payment, and I’m pretty sure he said so back a few years ago.
But, if he wasn’t okay with it, that’s on him.
112,500 a year is plenty of money.
Not when your primary work is irregular and you basically have to live and breath the work for the many months you are attached to it. Basically every waking hour you are on the clock, which makes the hourly rate pretty low.
Isn’t that every salaried position though? Last year I was on 30k USD for 7 days a week all day. Always on call.
That’s pretty common in my area for people with postgraduate in STEM.
In most salary roles you would be tenured with job security, and you would be covered by an appropriate award that limits the hours you work in a week.
In film production you get a job for a few months, and during those months you stay in a hotel or sleeper trailer, don’t get to see your family, and work from wake to sleep.
You would work potentially 18 hours, go back to your room to prep for the next day, then get what little sleep you can before doing it again. For months.
Then after all that you have no guarantee when your next job will be. Some industry professionals go years between jobs. It’s an extremely intense workload.
Oh that’s interesting.
In my region salary comes with no protections, we have no fault termination. So quite often contractors are salaried for the three months they’re on then cut.
You’ll find a job and you might be there for 2 weeks or 4 months, who knows. Turnover everywhere is high as companies simply pay for GPT rather than hire developers, engineers, hr etc.