[SML] First Annual US Theatre Employment Survey

[Ben Peoples]

Kristi,

Thanks! The Bureau of Labor Statistics does have a lot of the data, but
it's difficult to sort out exactly where the lines fall.  The biggest thing
I found was that the data doesn't accurately reflect how the industry sees
itself.

For instance, under Theater companies, we find the following occupations:
Costume attendants
Fashion designers
Craft artists
Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
Designers, all other
First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers
Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers

All of these could be mapped onto the various jobs you'd find in a costume
shop.   Taking costume attendants, we find they're employed in these
industries:
Theatre companies
Amusement parks
Promoters of performing arts, etc.
Casino hotels
Accountants and payroll services (200 of them)
Local government
Colleges, state
College, private

Which is why I decided to go the tack of doing a survey and seeing where we
get, since that seems at least as reliable as the data from the BLS...

-- Ben




On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Kristi R-C <misswisc at aol.com> wrote:

> Which numbers were you looking for?  I bet they're out there but labeled
> oddly. "Construction worker, temporary theatrical installations- indoor" or
> some such nonsense for the number of stagehands.
>
> Kristi R-C
>
> On Oct 28, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Ben Peoples via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> We went looking for some employment numbers for the industry and
> discovered that nobody had them.  Without further ado, we present to you
> the First Annual US Theatre Employment Survey.   Please repost and forward:
> our goal is to reach as many people as possible.
>
> Link here: http://goo.gl/forms/fcbcpDCA2u
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Peoples
>
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