The Writers Guild of America continued on Tuesday to frame its arguments in advance of bargaining, putting out a report that maintains that writers are “falling behind” in the streaming…
“The companies have leveraged the streaming transition to underpay writers, creating more precarious, lower-paid models for writers’ work,” the report concluded. “Our 2023 negotiations must significantly address writer compensation.”more than doubled
Total writer earnings are also up significantly, rising more than 50% from 2011 to 2021, according to the guild’s data. Average earnings per writer are up 19% over the last decade, but they are flat when inflation is factored in. The report also notes that higher-paid writers are seeing their weekly pay decline as episode orders shrink and production schedules lengthen, because they are paid by the episode.
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