or another example of unions gone wild
seems the AVERAGE wage of stagehands at Lincoln center and other highbrow theaters in NYC is 290k an year.
unreal....
seems the AVERAGE wage of stagehands at Lincoln center and other highbrow theaters in NYC is 290k an year.
At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stagehand salary and benefits package is $290,000 a year.
To repeat, that is the average compensation of all the workers who move musicians' chairs into place and hang lights, not the pay of the top five.
Across the plaza at the Metropolitan Opera, a spokesman said stagehands rarely broke into the top-five category. But a couple of years ago, one did. The props master, James Blumenfeld, got $334,000 at that time, including some vacation back pay.
unreal....