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Overtime

posted by aruna on June 21, 2010 at 6:42 p.m.


During the next several posts I will be discussing a collection of topics that cover our monetary rights as employees in the entertainment field. I'm hoping to shed some light on the basic laws and regulations that protect us as employees in the visual effects industry.  Many of the rules ... Read more.



Relevance

posted by aruna on February 9, 2010 at 2:28 p.m.


Awash in the web are inklings and details about the status of post production freelancers in Los Angeles.  Recently Rhythm & Hues presented a recruitment seminar at the Art Institute of Dallas, the full entry is linked here.  It is a very interesting article on ... Read more.



Foreign Competition

posted by aruna on January 14, 2010 at 8:47 p.m.


During times of economic instability, we often wonder if our jobs are secure.  In the past article, one of our members gave us the current outlook as a Western supervisor living and working in China. His thoughts are eye opening, but how exactly will this help those of us ... Read more.



Working in China

posted by mkolars on January 11, 2010 at 11:58 a.m.


A guest post from one of our users, with editorial corrections and comments. Reprinted by permission.
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Many complain that outsourcing companies in Asia cut jobs in the West and many fear that low wages in the East endanger jobs in the West. No doubt there is a trend ... Read more.



The Discrepancy between Salaries and Wages

posted by aruna on January 3, 2010 at 1:22 p.m.


During 2010, I hope to address more and more of your concerns about salaries and wages, give you some graphs and itemized location breakdowns for different regions, and simply, help you get more information. This first post of the new year will be one of many, more frequent, ... Read more.



Our First Official Press Release

posted by aruna on March 30, 2009 at 9:17 a.m.

Our first official press release went out today to the newswire, to entertainment and computer trades journals across the nation and around the world. It'll probably take some time to seep into the mindset of people, but we're really official, and we're here for good.

Here's the press ... Read more.



Public!

posted by aruna on March 9, 2009 at 5:14 p.m.

After a long and arduous first quarter, we've put the final touches on for our public beta. Lots of little fixes and tweaks from our private beta period, which I hope will help you get the rate that you deserve. There are a lot of milestones that we are ... Read more.



New Items!

posted by aruna on December 16, 2008 at 9:04 a.m.

Well, our overnight upgrade seems to be successful! Check out some of the new items we have around and tell us what you think! We still have some items to hit before we go public. After all, it's only two of us at the moment in our spare time ... Read more.



Downtime & Upgrades

posted by aruna on December 15, 2008 at 1:23 p.m.

We've experienced some unfortunate downtime for the past twenty hours, which does not involve our site upgrade today. Hopefully the worst is behind us, and I don't foresee future outages at this time. We will be transitioning to better equipped services in the near future, and downtime should be ... Read more.



Over 400

posted by aruna on November 18, 2008 at 2:04 p.m.

As of this moment, we have over 400 members, with about 100 wage data points, which will increase based on your input. We hope to roll out an incremental update to the site before the Thanksgiving weekend, so keep visiting occasionally! Not too bad for only starting 16 days ... Read more.



Updating Wages

posted by aruna on November 10, 2008 at 10:19 a.m.

We're still waiting for more wage data! If you feel uncomfortable putting a wage in for your current job title and occupation, feel free to put in the amount from the last place you worked, along with the time frame and your experience level at that time. We'll be ... Read more.



No-Replies and RSS.

posted by aruna on November 7, 2008 at 9:57 a.m.

A couple of users (well, maybe more than a couple) have notified me that the registration and beta emails were coming from no-reply, which often gets trashed automatically at some companies and are ignored my many. So we've changed it to come from registration@ instead! Keep an eye out. ... Read more.



More Details

posted by aruna on November 6, 2008 at 10:15 a.m.

I've added one more industry, Motion Graphics, for motion graphics professionals, and I've also added a new company, called Freelance! It's in the world region at the moment, so you won't be able to select a dropdown to narrow the freelance wages just yet. If you're hesistant about putting ... Read more.



Some Answered Questions.

posted by aruna on November 3, 2008 at 2:28 p.m.

There are a couple questions that I've been getting that I'd like to clear up.

The WAGES tab at the top will bring you to a no data chart, by default, of the wages of your occupation.. If you try to select a company or a region, ... Read more.



We're open for business!

posted by aruna on November 2, 2008 at 10:36 a.m.

Welcome Beta testers! We're a couple days behind, but if you're reading this, it means that you are now a private beta tester for VFXWages.. We have about 60 plus people at the moment, and it will only grow based on your support. You may have noticed that several ... Read more.






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