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Actors and Offering Value

actors compensation value Jul 19, 2021

There is a tendency for us to 'value' ourselves by the contract we work.

Broadway principal.

Top of show recurring.

Guest Artist.

Or, by our paychecks.

Our unions have established minimums for contracts, so some of the 'valuation' work here is done for our agents.

Beyond that, there are negotiations for status, risk, celebrity, complexity of the role, industry platform, and many other intangibles.

Straight scale happens a lot.

Are you valuing yourself based on one of these?

I invite you to think of your value as bigger than this.

Let's think about a definition of VALUE.

The regard that something is held to deserve.

The exchange of value for value is as old as the first barter system.  There is even a theatre in Virginia where the patrons were allowed to bring produce and farm animals to exchange for a ticket to see the show.

And yes. The actors were sometimes fed this way!

Remember, 'we'll work for food!'?

At some point, one of the values in the exchange became money.

In some...

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