July 1, 2008The Inside Scoop on Authors and WritersThe June 23 issue of Publishers Weekly has these interesting factoids from a National Endowment for the Arts study called "Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005." (For the purposes of this study, "writers and authors" refer to those whose primary occupations involve the creation of scripts, stories, novels, poems, plays, biographies, advertisements, speeches and other material. It does not include technical writers, editors or journalists.) 185,276: total number of authors and writers, 2005 39%: increase in authors between 1990 and 2005 51.9%: percentage of authors who work full-time writing $50,800: median income for full-time authors, 2005 $38,700: median income for entire civilian labor force, 2005 $38,800: median income for all authors, 2005 $47,300: median income for male authors, 2005 $33,300: median income for female authors, 2005 54.9%: percentage of authors who are female 10.8%: percentage of authors who are minorities 26.8%: percentage of authors who are under age thirty-five 83.1%: percentage of authors who have at least a bachelor's degree 45.9%: percentage of authors who are self-employed 50,000: estimated number of writers living in California and New York Santa Fe, New Mexico: city ranked #1 for authors per capita Well, it certainly tempts me to support myself by being a computer programmer, or something like that. Of course, I don't know any programming. Comment by: L.L. Barkat at July 2, 2008 4:31 PMComments are closed for this entry. |
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