Forum - View topicINTEREST: Japanese Cabinet Meeting Discusses Anime Industry Wages
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Kadmos1
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I don't know what the most ideal practical annual wage for an animator should be but I wish it was at least $35,000 after taxes. This is counting for any animator in any field of animation in any country.
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xxmsxx
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Yeah, last time I heard, a really fast in-betweener can earn approximately $800 to $900 per month. When things get tough or you are not as fast as the vets, it's more like $400 per month.
No joke. But I think the animators are well aware of the fact they are paid crap. It is the Production Committee that needs to think about expanding the revenue stream, making anime an end itself not a means to an end. Increasing wages without substantial increases in revenue means the investors' profit margins will be cut. And you know they will not allow that whatsoever, so the wages will stay low even if you gain some kind of "consciousness". |
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omiya
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There is a certain irony in talking about low pay and more work needing to be done.
The Mainichi recently mentioned that a single person living alone in Osaka would need to earn 240,000 yen per month to "live normally": https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220208/p2a/00m/0li/022000c As always, average wages are skewed high by those being paid the most, median wages would give a more realistic view. [EDIT] Just to make it clear, 100,000 yen per month would be 1.2 million yen per year, slightly more than the 1.1 million yen per year mentioned in the ANN article but still less than half of the 240,000 yen per month or 2.88 million yen per year that acccording to the Mainichi article was required to be able to live alone "normally" in Osaka. Last edited by omiya on Thu Feb 10, 2022 6:48 am; edited 2 times in total |
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MFrontier
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It would be nice if something could be done on this...
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Alan45
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The answer is simple. It will take a government mandate. They will have to define animators as employees in a manner to prevent wiggle room (that is no more contractors or freelance workers). Then they need to establish minimum wages, benefits and working conditions. The industry will not reform itself.
Of course, even if such an action is politically or legally possible it will have unintended consequences. More offshore animation possibly with only the director and office staff being Japanese. Some studios would likely go out of business. Possibly it would pull back a number of experienced animators who quit, locking out new talent for years. |
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SilverTalon01
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Sometimes the news actually reports the median and calls it the average when referring to income. Not sure that happened here. |
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Beatdigga
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It’s great the issue is noticed but what can realistically be done? I imagine studios are on tight leashes budget wise as it is.
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JasmineForsyth4k
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In anime studios, there is a lot of money. The majority of anime studios are freelancers. This is not the same as hiring a professional essay editng. The majority of anime studios are freelancers. The production committee, in other words, creates a budget and hires a studio to work on the anime. The studio usually has no say in the anime it works on, although it is compensated in advance for its efforts. Producing an anime for Late Night, for example, might cost $5 million, which must be split among all those involved in the project. Production and the sheer quantity of animators are two factors that contribute to low compensation for animators.
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