Guess they really needed that tax break.
Story below.
STORY (http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/23/pf/rich_wealth_gap/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin)
If they are unsure just how much their tax rate is going to be why bother spending money on the economy to bail out states like California? I mean after all California is a shining example of high taxes and just look how rich the state is. I don’t get it 
Maybe we should all become union stagehands and make an average of $290K.
That’s a complete lie, that’s not the average, those guys are the exceptions.
I know that first hand.
Lincoln center stagehands are probably 3-5 that are there on permanent posts, the rest are called on to help out, and they don’t make nearly as much as that.
When you’re at one of the top venues in the city, of course you’ll make the most. But IATSE and Local one guys don’t even make close to half of that. Also the benefits the private sector gets vs what these guys have to pay out of pocket are also not mentioned there.
Just FYI the crap that the media exaggerates sometimes.
I don’t think it is a complete lie. The story is about the average pay at the TOP venues. If it is a lie they certainly made up a lot of names and numbers.
At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stagehand salary and benefits package is $290,000 a year.
To repeat, that is the average compensation of all the workers who move musicians’ chairs into place and hang lights, not the pay of the top five.
Across the plaza at the Metropolitan Opera, a spokesman said stagehands rarely broke into the top-five category. But a couple of years ago, one did. The props master, James Blumenfeld, got $334,000 at that time, including some vacation back pay.
Ahern also notes that the top paid stagehand at Carnegie Hall makes $422,599 a year in salary, plus $107,445 in benefits and deferred compensation. So why such exorbitant pay? You probably already guessed that a union is involved:
Read more at the Washington Examiner: The power of unions: Average stagehand at Lincoln Center in NYC makes $290K a year | Washington Examiner
I know, but when the average is 3-5 guys on salary, then your results can be skewed.
My point is its manipulating the story.
Most stagehands in NYC make around 80-120k a year on average, depending on what venue they work.
From Madison Square Garden, to the Broadway Shows, to your TV shows, not everyone is paid the same hourly ratel. Some of those guys that work in TV don’t make that much, while the broadway guys can make more but have instability just incase their theater is dark.
I however should have clarified between giving points between your statement and the story’s. I just mashed it all into one response, sorry for the confusion.
So we are saying the bad economy is the stagehand unions fault and stagehands in general. See Jim I was right. Hollywood pays the rich stagehands, who are then taxed and don’t spend money in California and hence why the state is bankrupt.
I think this just goes to show that cartoons offer the best possible option over hiring actual stagehands who have made the list of worlds most evil.
Yeah, the story is skewed. I mostly posted it as a bit of a joke, not an attack on stage hands.
So its not the stagehands unions fault? OK I blame OBAMA!