Compensation Surveys

Moderate Compensation Growth for Entertainment Industry

The annual Croner Entertainment Survey provides comprehensive market data about compensation for jobs and specialties in all segments of the Entertainment industry, including Film, Television, Digital Entertainment and Music production and distribution. Noteworthy insights from the recently published 2021 Croner Entertainment Survey include: Professional independent contributor positions and operating independent contributor / support positions experienced the [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:47-07:00December 13th, 2021|News & Trends|
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Executives in Television and Digital Entertainment Experience Only Moderate Compensation Growth

The 2021 C2HR Content Developers Compensation Survey provides competitive compensation data for positions in companies that develop content for television and digital entertainment, as well as positions specific to television and radio broadcasting. High level trends from the 2021 results include: All organization levels experienced some year-over-year growth in compensation. Operating individual [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:41-07:00October 14th, 2021|News & Trends|
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COVID-19 Impacted Compensation for Animation and Visual Effects Jobs

The recently published results of the 2021 Croner Animation and Visual Effects Survey shows noteworthy trends in compensation from the past year.  The highlights below are extracts from Croner’s annual report of third-party market data for roles specific to producing animation and visual effects. Base salaries increased year-over-year for the majority of [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:35-07:00September 7th, 2021|Attracting and Retaining Talent|
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New Job Families Added to the 2021 Croner Software Games Survey

The position grids for the 2021 Croner Software Games Survey will cover ten new software gaming job families this year.  These additions result from discussions with survey participant companies at the annual Survey Planning Meeting.  The meeting was attended by human resources and compensation professionals from companies developing and/or publishing games in [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:47-07:00May 12th, 2021|News & Trends|
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25 Years Online and Still Evolving

We are proud to be celebrating our 25th year of providing trusted market data on pay for jobs specific to online and mobile talent. Yes, twenty-five years ago there were “online” jobs! And Croner was providing compensation data for online positions back then. The 2021 Croner Digital Content and Technology Compensation Survey cycle kicked off in January at the annual Survey Planning Meeting [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:27-07:00April 29th, 2021|News & Trends|
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Animation and Visual Effects Compensation Survey Annual Planning Meeting

Animation and Visual Effects jobs are at the forefront of today’s entertainment. Animators and Visual Effects teams are producing content consumed in software games and in content streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. The 2021 Croner Animation and Visual Effects Survey provides up-to-date competitive compensation information about positions that [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:27-07:00February 8th, 2021|News & Trends|
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C2HR Shows COVID’s Impact on Industry Pay

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in more modest pay increases last year and slower compensation growth is expected to continue in 2021, according to data from The Content & Connectivity Human Resources (C2HR) Association’s annual compensation surveys, conducted by The Croner Company. Content developers have been much harder hit than connectivity [...]

2022-03-28T12:55:54-07:00February 8th, 2021|News & Trends|
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