Nearly half of Australia’s working musicians are making less than $6000 a year and the vast majority, or some 86 per cent, say they have been treated “unfairly” on the job.
A new poll has found a majority of these Aussie workers earn shockingly low wages, with nearly half making less than $6000 a year.
“Musicians are the face of Australia’s insecure work crisis,” Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance campaigns director Paul Davies said on Tuesday. “The majority of musicians work multiple jobs and make sacrifices to pursue their music careers, having to fund their projects and artistic development, and that’s on top of supporting themselves and their families.”
More than half cited lack of pay as the biggest barrier to working in music full time and 82 per cent said they did not receive superannuation for gigs. “Once I would have derived half my earnings from music, but rising living costs and a drop in performance fees has forced me to pivot to other work outside of music,” she said.
“Most organisations are unwilling to negotiate terms or operation models. I don’t think it has to be this way.”
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