John Florian has published the results of the VoiceOverXtra survey of your peers regarding volume of work and income. This survey was conducted online in October of 2008 and is based on responses from 204 voice actors, with no correlation kept between the answers and the respondents.
A couple of things I thought were interesting. Just about exactly half of the voice actors responding have been at their craft for 10 years or more, more than half work at voice acting full-time and 60% are non-union with another 8% who are dues-paying non-members (Financial Core).
Like most surveys numbers are numbers. We need to keep in mind that there is no Voice Over industry, no factory churning out Voice Overs in a market place where some outlets sell them at 5 for a dollar in the box of your choice.
Times are bad – look at the statistics and blame the market.
Times are good – I AM BRILLIANT!
The inconsistency is obvious, if I take the credit then I must also take the blame.
Philip,
How right you are. And by the same token, if I’m not to blame, then I can’t take any of the credit either. Needless to say, the responsible party is the fellow in the mirror each morning.
Be well,
Bob