![]() This is assuming you’ll be a writer with the WGA, the union for writers, which as a professional writer is highly likely and advisable. We’ll also be focused largely, as guides, on what the WGA (Writer’s Guild of America) minimums are. For example, however, the average for a spec script sale in 2017-2018 was circa $110,000. TV salaries line up with a more traditional salary structure, whilst spec script sales and commissions can be harder to quantify. The way that feature film commissions line up with the spec market might also lead some screenwriters to view feature film commissions as butter rather than bread. Film commissions are certainly out there, but can lack the kind of joined-up pathway outlined below. For a lot of screenwriters TV represents their best shot by some distance of earning a mortgage-paying amount of money. In addition, the guide focusses heavily on what writers earn in television. If you’ve got determination and you can forge that with ever-improving craft, you’ll be there or thereabouts eventually… So, again, we stress – this is a steer or a stab or a loose guide or a speculative insight only into how careers (and the money that goes with those careers) progress! And that’s all it is… ![]() For those who haven’t hit the levels cited, at the age suggested, this is also largely irrelevant and should be taken with a giant brick of salt.Īfter all, like David Seidler and other screenwriters who broke in late, who cares when you get there? It’s all about the body of work when the curtain closes… ![]() It’s an attempt, or stab even, at digging deeper into how much writers earn and at what level of the business. This guide to a screenwriting salary is just that: a guide, and should in no way be seen as a promise of automatic career steps or guaranteed earnings. A Screenwriting Salary – how much do scribes REALLY earn?Īlthough it’s hard to get on the screenwriting salary ladder and even harder to stay on it – let alone climb beyond the middle rung – it is possible to make a living as a screenwriter (though Herculean levels of self-discipline, at least one other string to your earnings-potential bow, and a partner who is both financially and emotionally understanding are all useful).
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