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Are You Getting Paid What You Are Worth for Your Art?
Author, painter, sculptor, or any other form of artist — do you get paid what you’re worth?
This question is not just for artists. Frankly, it applies to more or less everyone.
In America in particular, businesses are more likely to pay as little as necessary for workers. With a few exceptions, of course, many companies out there pay less than what a good employee is worth, offer few to no benefits, and care far more about shareholders, profit, and the C-Suite executives than their employees.
There is nowhere in America where the minimum wage is sufficient to live on.
When you are an artist, this is even more challenging. Particularly in a world where the arts are frequently undervalued, disregarded, or the focus is on just celebrities, superstars, and their earning ability.
That random actress in the dog food commercial makes a lot less than that recurrent actor on a popular TV show. That recurrent actor, in turn, makes less than the stars of that show. With a few exceptions, those stars make far less than big-name celebrities do for their projects.
As an unknown or lesser-known painter, author, or graphic artist, you make far less than your commercially successful…
