<div dir="ltr">Kristi,<div><br></div><div>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.  </div><div><br></div><div>For instance, under Theater companies, we find the following occupations:</div>Costume attendants<br>Fashion designers<br>Craft artists<br>Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other<br>Designers, all other<br>First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers<br>Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers<div><br></div><div>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:</div><div>Theatre companies</div><div>Amusement parks</div><div>Promoters of performing arts, etc.</div><div>Casino hotels</div><div>Accountants and payroll services (200 of them)</div><div>Local government</div><div>Colleges, state</div><div>College, private</div><div><br></div><div>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...</div><div><br></div><div>-- Ben</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Kristi R-C <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:misswisc@aol.com" target="_blank">misswisc@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>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. <br><br>Kristi R-C</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Oct 28, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Ben Peoples via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello folks,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Link here: <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/fcbcpDCA2u" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/forms/fcbcpDCA2u</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ben Peoples</div></div>
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