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more about #paycuts more comments → PandoraSpocks: Okay, I'll say it: I love Entourage. Especially Lloyd. more » dirtydeer: As Sally Field reaches the top of those dark, polished stairs, right in front of the old William Morris portrait, she quietly holds up a sign. The cl... more » Trulymadlyme: a mandatory 50 hour work week I hope they're paying overtime! more » EsotericPopCulturePun: my first job in the entertainment (music) industry i was making $22,000 a year in NYC which comes out to about $10.50 an hour if you're working 40 hou... more » ChillbearLatrigue: You might look at this as barely livable wages, but I see it as a 10%, 9% and 16.7% raise successively. That's what above cost of living increases. Th... more » sanyucat: As far as I can tell, the only thing funny about 'Entourage' is that it's supposed to be a comedy. more » skt.smth: Considering I basically make the upper capped yearly wages of a WME assistant for working less than 20 functional hours a week (the rest are desk hour... more » OopsRecession: Are these supposed to be surprising numbers for media jobs? more » PaisleyPajamas: Employed at WME less than 1 year - $10/hr Employed at WME 1-2 years - $11/hr A whopping additional $2,080 a year--don't spend it all at Taco Bell! E... more » FeyBoohoozer: Would I have a 30 minute lunch hour or the have they cut that down to 25? more » WackoJacko: I could TOTALLY rock 26Gs a year. (and I'd really like to as I am currently unemployed) more » IamnotStarJones: do they still get benefits? more » Krashstar: They great thing about wages this low is that there's no need to get upset that you're prostituting yourself. Because, you know, prostitutes get paid. more » NowAvailableinExtraStrength: When I as a youngster just starting out we got $.50 an hour and we had to go out and find 13 year-olds for Charlie Chaplin to have sex with. more » secretagentman: This is the way it's been since Lew Wasserman was in short pants. If you want to be a successful agent, it's part of the career. If you don't like it,... more » -
#paycuts
WME Assistants Now Being Paid Like Teenage Babysitters
So you wanna be a hotshot agent like Ari on that horrible Entourage show? Well, you'll probably have to start out as an assistant, which means you'd better have a trust fund or an insatiable fondness for ramen noodles.
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#paycuts
The William Morris Assistants Lose Pay So the Endeavor Kids Won't Feel Bad
Toiling as an assistant within the smoldering bowels of newly-formed superagency William Morris Endeavor should, apparently, be its own reward. Because the $9.50 an hour the gig pays won't buy any other kind of reward. More » -
#media
New York Times Pay Cuts: The Details
Yesterday the New York Times cut all of its non-union salaries by 5%—but it had to meet with the union to ask its members to go along as well. They better! More » -
#media
The New York Times Discovers Arithmetic
The New York Times has completed the first step: admitting it has a problem. The internal memo is out, confirming today's rumored pay cuts (and layoffs). This is big news. More » -
#rumormonger
New York Times Asks For Pay Cuts Today
Updated: We've heard solid rumors that editors and managers at the New York Times are being told they will be taking a 5% pay cut and the paper is asking for similar cuts from newsroom employees. More » -
#recessionomics
Silicon Valley's Next Big Innovation: Pay Cuts
Rather than put more people on the street, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd is cutting salaries by 5 percent or more across the board. It's a paycheck experiment never before tried at a company this large. More »
