JAniCA Reveals Animator Pay Rates
The Japan Animation Creators Association held a symposium at Tokyo University last Friday to discuss the working conditions and status of Japan’s anime production industry. The discussion included an announcement of results from a poll of 700 professional animators and directors.
Animators in their 20s earn an average annual salary of 1.1 million yen (US $11,600). Staffers in their 30s earn an average annual salary of 2.14 million yen (US $22,600). Last year JAniCA reported that veteran animators in their 40s and 50s may earn as little as 3 million yen (about US $31,000) annually. 47% of the survey respondents did not have an employment contract with an anime production company.
The symposium’s panelists, who included Vampire Hunter D director Toyoo Ashida, City Hunter character designer Sachiko Kamimura, Nijuu Menso no Musume producer Koji Takeuchi, and Paprika director Satoshi Kon, warned that the future of Japan’s anime industry is worrying because the industry is not attracting and training enough new animators to sustain the industry. The symposium concluded by advocating more collaboration with production companies to improve the working conditions of staffers.
Source: Anime News Network
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For years I’ve been telling people who download anime that animators don’t make very much, and that by leeching from an industry they claim to care about isn’t helping animators make any more than they already do. This here is proof that animators really don’t make much.
I don’t know what the official poverty line is in Japan, but in the U.S. $11,000/year for a one-person family is right at the poverty line.
So, if you’re in your 20s and you make MORE than $11,000/year, stop downloading anime, get off your rear, and go buy it at the store or from an online dealer, cos you can afford to spend far more on anime than the actual animators that make your beloved product can.
joechummer: These arrogant bitches wouldn’t care.
Seriously.
They would openly rather destroy the anime industry and put these people out of work than pay for the product.