Media Industry News

Emerging Policies for Hybrid and Permanently Remote Work

The results of a Croner Company pulse survey about remote work show a majority of participating companies will allow hybrid work schedules going forward. Hybrid work is defined as requiring some days in the office and allowing some days to be work from home.  The greatest number of those companies that will allow for hybrid work expect to have [...]

2023-08-17T10:37:58-07:00December 22nd, 2021|News & Trends|

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|

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|

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|

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|

Remote Pay Policies

The Croner Company is conducting an interim survey to report on compensation policies and practices under consideration or being implemented as a result of the shift to remote work. The survey is open at no charge to all survey participant companies registered for 2021 annual benchmark surveys conducted by Croner. [...]

2022-08-02T13:51:00-07:00February 5th, 2021|News & Trends|

New Jobs Added to Survey of Content Developer Jobs and Connectivity Provider Jobs

The position grids for the 2021 C2HR Content Developers Compensation Survey will cover four new job families this year. These additions result from discussions with industry representatives at the annual Survey Planning Meeting. The Planning Meeting was attended by human resources and compensation professionals from 25 companies that create and broadcast content [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:48-07:00February 2nd, 2021|News & Trends|

2021 Croner Digital Content and Technology Survey Planning Meeting

The 25th annual Croner Digital Content and Technology Survey will be launched on Thursday, January 28, 2021, when long-time and new survey participant companies gather virtually to plan for this year’s Survey content.  This annual Survey planning meeting, conducted with compensation and human resources executives, ensures the Survey remains fresh [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:26-07:00January 20th, 2021|News & Trends|