I missed my calling

[dogtowner]

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.

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....


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[pocketfullofshells]

of course if they make 20 million and trashed the theater...they would be called a CEO and you would cry about how its not fair they pay a bit extra in taxes.

 

[dogtowner]

of course if they make 20 million and trashed the theater...they would be called a CEO and you would cry about how its not fair they pay a bit extra in taxes.

if they trashed the theater they could not make money nor could they pay exorbitant wages to the stage hands and not too much to the actors (apart from the leads, occasionally). and the cabbies would not get so many fares nor the resturants those customers before and after the show, the hookers etc etc etc.