I want to know how to get to Carnegie Hall, and the answer is not practice

[MillCreek]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/03/228809419/how-do-you-get-paid-400-000-at-carnegie-hall-be-a-stagehand?ft=1&f=1001

I was a stagehand and ran lights in high school and college for free.  I should have skipped the whole chemistry/law/business/risk management gig and gone to Carnegie Hall.

[AZRedhawk44]

Sounds like appropriate compensation for highly skilled production managers in an historic and popular venue.

Do you think Grand Ole Opry, or Yo Yo Ma (not to be confused with Yo Ma Ma), or any of the top musical performers likely to play Carnegie wants to work with a stage/light/audio engineer that only makes $50k?

I'm guessing that similar gigs at equally high profile venues are commensurate in salary.


An aside, it's kinda funny looking at the Carnegie schedule and seeing my name playing in October.  1 letter mispelled, but still.

[Balog]

Dropping a lighting boom accidentally could easily cost around that much, depending on what was on it. Dropping a lighting boom on a famous performer would cost a lot more. Good stagehands are invaluable.

[Harold Tuttle]

union pay

[Scout26]

union pay

In New York City.

[Monkeyleg]

An old high school friend of mine got into lighting production in NYC, and made it pretty big. I don't know what he makes, but his brother tells me it's a lot.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

new york unions are special

[Scout26]

My friend that does taxes handles quite a few for stagehands.  They generally have 20-40 W-2's each year for the different jobs/productions they work on.  They  make good money $100K plus a year, if they have a good year moving from show to show.  However, sometimes it can be a lot less, if there's no work/shows going on.