Animation salaries

Now that I knew what I wanted to focus on, I had to find out about how much an animator and storyboard artist could earn. If the numbers that ITJobsWatch provides [1], reflects how much a freelancer could get, then it's fully possible to live on animation alone, if you have enough clients to keep it going through the whole year. The survey says that that the average salary in England has been £31,500, while City of London is at the top, with £50,000.

It was quite difficult to find anything telling me about the average salary of a storyboard artist, but a job listing on DesignWeek [2], provides me with a vague hint at what one might be offered. It is a job within advertisement storyboarding, working with clients in the Asia/Pacific region, so the salary might reflect that too. The salary might be anywhere from £20 to £30 per hour, in this particular job. Seeing as it was very difficult to find numbers elsewhere, then this is what I had to work with. It also includes Adobe Illustrator in it's pipeline, which I haven't used that much yet.

Overall, I think I should focus on animation jobs, while looking more into Illustrator, if that really is a common part in the advertisement storyboarding pipeline.

References:

• [1] ITJobsWatch - Animation Jobs
• [2] DesignWeek - Freelance Storyboard Visualiser