Written by Michelle Jones
Published: November 12, 2013 at 12:43 AM [UTC]
Minimum SCALE is the minimum wage based for the lowest skill set of musicians at the professional level. It is the starting salary for those right out of college, not the salary for musicians who have been doing it for 10+ years. Minimum wage scales should be marketed as the STARTING scale, not the only scale. The problem is that minimum scale has become the acceptable standard to pay all professional musicians, regardless of experience and investment in degrees, instruments and equipment.
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