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Originally Posted by MaTr1x2051  Interesting... and I was thinking about moving to LA to get into the film industry and do more high profile audio work. The people around here don't expect quality for less than $50/hr. If the desparately need a recording and are on a time constraint, they may go with someone lower, but they know ahead of time they will be disappointed.
For some reason, I expected wages to be higher in a city like LA, despite the huge amounts of competition.
Scottsdale is doing great these days... you can't even tell we are in a recession up there. Its almost like being in another country. |
Congrats. Glad to hear Scottsdale is doing well. In CA we're around 12-14% unemployment right now. Pretty rough times. AZ sounds like a great market. I'm convinced secondary markets are the only place to go these days for decent wages - albeit at the loss of higher profile clients. The big markets like LA are 2 decades PAST oversaturation - and the people holding the budget strings know it. Most project budgets are around 30-40% of what they were in 1980!!!! (Speaking of film/TV) And of course the cost of living here is up several hundred percent. I can easily find gold/platinum engineers out looking for work any day I choose. Sad really. And the pro-pirate advocates say that pirating hasn't hurt anyone but the big greedy record companies.
Insane.
Seriously though, if you're booking $50+ consistently, I would say LA would be a disaster for you unless you have clients already in place that will pay more than you're making now. Make the trip over for a week or two when you need to. But working permanently out of here is very, very difficult right now.....