The things we do to make a buck. Sometimes they aren’t so fun. Most of us sit at a day job answering phones, taking an order or entering data. I am lucky. My day job is still in the arts. I work with costumes. No I’m not a designer, I hate collaboration with actors (crazy, huh?), I help an actor change clothes. Sometimes I build the costumes they wear. Sometimes, for film and TV, I am a babysitter.
For the next few months, I am jumping into my day job full time. It will allow me to save some money, get out of debt, be able to get back on unemployment when I’m done and make my life a little less “paycheck to paycheck”. I’ll still be singing….most of my gigs for the rest of the year is on the weekends! That worked out great, huh?!?!
I’m going to try to update this area with pithy remarks made by some of your favorite stars. Now, I sign confidentiality clauses when I start a project…so you will have to read between the lines…sounds like fun, right?
Here’s the first quip:
Producer talking to PA, as they are walking toward me, “…I pay 54% taxes! My accountant has asked me to give more of it away. But 54% taxes! It’s crazy!”
PA…”Yeah that does seem like a lot!”
Not really very juicy, huh?
Here are some facts that make this more interesting:
Well, the producer is also an actor who has made, in the past, 1.6 million an episode. After 54% taxes are taken out he made: $736,000 an episode.
Each episode takes 8 days to shoot.
He made 25 episodes a season.
People that makes a little over 18 million or so a year… that he is complaining is too little. That’s 18 million AFTER taxes.
The PA he is talking to is one of the lowest paid, hardest working people on a set. They work 12 to 15 hours a day, on their feet most of the time. They are constantly yelled at by the entire crew. They make $125 a day. So, while he made $736,000 every 8 days, the girl he was talking to made (and this is assuming years ago when this past show occurred PA’s actually made that much!) $1000 before taxes!
This is like Warren Buffet talking to his janitor about how broke he is. Was he thinking at all?
Pithy people, pithy.
