For the second year, we have anonymously polled our members to ask them what they are being paid. The results are a barometer of the "going rates", as opposed to the union minimums.

Staff Writers	23.4%	$1,140.00	$1,987.50	$3,375.00	$2,300.00	-$312.00
Producers	53.4%	$1,107.00	$4,000.00	$14,423.00	$4,000.00	0
Directors	38.7%	$1,200.00	$2,100.00	$6,750.00	$2,000.00	+$100.00
Assistant Directors		$1,500.00	$1,600.00	$2,000.00	$1,725.00	-$125.00
Sheet Timers		$1,351.00	$1,675.00	$2,500.00	$1,537.00	+$138.00
Production Board	40.4%
Staff Production Board		$902.00	$1,700.00	$4,000.00	$1,500.00	+$200.00
Production Board Clean-Up		$798.00*	$1,140.00	$1,515.00	$1,000.00	+$140.00
Story Sketch		$1,500.00	$2,240.00	$3,650.00	$1,710.00	+$530.00
Design	39.1%
Art Directors		$1,300.00	$2,950.00	$5,000.00	$2,950.00	0
Visual Development		$912.39	$2,000.00	$4,815.00	$1,500.00	+$500.00
Model Designers		$750.00	$1,312.50	$2,100.00	$1,382.50	-$ 70.00
CGI Modellers		$1,385.00	$1,430.00	$1,550.00	$1,400.00	+$ 30.00
Assistant Models/Clean-Up		$1,079.00	$1,400.00	$1,550.00	$1,093.29	+$306.71
Color Key/Color Stylists		$1,000.00	$1,200.00	$1,900.00	$1,200.00	0
Layout	40.7%
Character Layout		$1,100.00	$2,144.50	$3.870.00	$1,900.00	+$244.50
Background Layout		$902.00	$1,750.00	$5,000.00	$1,600.00	+$150.00
Key Assistant Layout		$1,350.00	$1,500.00	$1,500.00	$1,450.00	+$ 50.00
Assistant Layout		$969.68	$1,130.00	$1,700.00	$995.00	+$135.00
CGI	57.9%
Technical Directors		$839.13*	$1,593.50	$3,000.00	n/a	n/a
Compositors/Scanners/Digital Camera		$730.00	$1,450.00	$2,100.00	$1,512.50	-$ 62.50
Opaquers/Digital Scanners		$640.00*	$831.80	$1,400.00	$780.00	+$ 51.80
Background	48.1%
Background Painter		$941.00	$1,720.00	$3,250.00	$1,600.00	+$120.00
Assistant Background		$821.88*	$969.68	$1,275.00	$898.32	+$ 71.36
Animators	45.5%
Character Animators		$1,050.00	$2,057.00	$6,500.00	$1,750.00	+$307.00
Effects Animators		$1,000.00	$1,945.00	$5,272.00	n/a	n/a
CGI Animators		$879.00*	$1,600.00	$3,500.00	n/a	n/a
Rough Animators/ Animating Assistants		$1,100.00	$1,325.00	$1,800.00	n/a	n/a
Key Assistant Animators	44.4%
Lead Key Assistants		$1,435.00	$1,900.00	$3,815.00	$1,370.00	+$530.00
Key Assistants		$904.00	$1,750.00	$3,150.00	$1,370.00	+$380.00
Assistant Animators	30.2%
Character Assistants		$800.00	$1,350.00	$2,700.00	$1,000.00	+$350.00
Effects Assistants		$850.00	$1,177.50	$1,925.00	$1,000.00	+$177.50
Rough Assistants		$1,100.00	$1,100.00	$1,100.00	$1,000.00	+$100.00
Clean-Up		$795.00*	$1,050.00	$2,000.00	$1,000.00	+$ 50.00
Breakdown	24.7%	$638.00	$900.00	$1,593.00	$850.00	+$ 50.00
Inbetweeners	27.2%	$756.00	$813.00	$1,175.00	$789.00	+$ 24.00
Animation Checking	52.7%
Scene Planners		$1,100.00	$1,475.00	$1,828.00	$1,400.00	+$ 75.00
Animation Checkers		$930.00	$1,095.00	$1,300.00	$1,000.00	+$ 95.00
Ink-and-Paint, et al.
Inkers	87.7%	$750.00	$798.00	$1,187.00	$809.24	+$ 11.24
Color Modelists	72.7%	$780.00	$1,200.00	$1,620.00	n/a	n/a
Cel Painters	34.1%	$750.00	$798.52	$858.16	$815.14	+$ 16.62
Final Checkers/ Mark-Up	25.0%	$1,059.19	$1,079.60	$1,100.00	$1,000.00	+$ 79.60
Apprentices/Trainees	13.8%	$723.64	$821.88	$1,250.00	$738.00	+$ 83.88
TOTAL	32.8%

1 Of those persons listed in our records as most recently employed in the category, the percentage who responded to the 1997 survey.

2 Some of the minimums listed may be for persons working at union shops at less than journey level.

3 The "median averages listed for the 1996 and 1997 surveys represent the middle rates when the results were listed in order from lowest to highest. These numbers should be viewed in the context of the minimums and maximums, and the percentage of response.

* Non-union.

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