Stagehands at Lincoln Center in NYC make $290,000 a year!

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.

The top paid stagehand at Carnegie Hall makes $422,599 a year in salary, plus $107,445 in benefits and deferred compensation.

Source: NorthJersey.com

 

Yet NYC is cutting firefighters policeman and teachers. Our priorities are sooo fucked up.

 

WAT!!?

 

"our policies"???

Who is OUR??

Save your tears..most of those cops belong under the penitentiary.

 

Holy crap! I'm becoming a stagehand!!! :smt043

 

Some yes. Most just want to do a job and go home to their kids. I don't know why you insist on making them ALL out to be evil its just not true fam. Do you know any cops?

 

Most don't give a shit about you fam.

 

Oh yeah you're 100% right but that can be said about most people in general. We'd all be better off if we looked out for each other but unfortunately we're all running on indifference. Its sad when a person can die on a train in NYC and not be discovered till the next day but that's the shitty selfish world we live in.