What's your rate? : 2024 Digi-Tech Survey

Last year, I put together a questionnaire in hopes to share insight and information regarding rates in the industry among Digital Technicians(Digi-Tech) for still photography. With continued changes in the industry (and the positive response to last year's questionnaire) I've put together a new survey to assess current industry rates. 

When I announced the previous questionnaire I shared the following:

     "Over the past few years I've seen quite a bit of discussion online about day rates. I was surprised by how wide the range varies depending on the location. I've also read stories about producers lowballing people rates that wouldn't even fly over a decade ago, and this was in a major market. Outrageously low rates hurt the entire industry. The fact that these lowball rates are being offered leads one to believe that they are being accepted, which is quite frustrating. 

     However, all of that online discussion of rates isn't in one place or easy to parse. So, I've taken some time to put together an anonymous questionnaire to gather data regarding rates as well as a few other metrics in the still photography digital technician field. The goal of the questionnaire is to help bring consistency and help normalize rates across the field by informing others with the data gathered."

While the results of this questionnaire offered great insight, I found that in analyzing the responses I had a few flaws in how some questions were asked. (You can review the 2023 results and analysis HERE) Because of this, I made improvements in the questions and how the findings will be presented in the future.
So, here it is.

If you are a Digital Technician for still photography or work with any please share this with them as it can only help others. More data makes it's easier to understand each region/market and what is considered acceptable for that area.

A few notes about the survey:

  • Survey takes approximately 2 minutes.
  • This is ANONYMOUS.
  • This is intended for Digital Technicians/Digi-techs/Digi-ops, NOT assistants or lighting techs.
  • All fields are required.
  • Please respond only once.
  • Be as accurate as possible.
  • Convert all currencies to $USD.
  • Don't attempt to add context in a random text field.
  • Share with others, more data will help.
  • The survey is open until 9PM PDT Monday October 21 2024. 
 
 
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