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Producer and Director Salary for 2021-2022

Also known as: 
Broadcast Producer, Casting Director, Film Maker, Independent Film Maker, Independent Video Producer, Motion Picture Director, Movie Producer, Music Video Director, Music Video Producer, News Production Supervisor

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SALARIES FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONALS

Producers and directors are positions which involve creative and managerial skills. These individuals make decisions regarding the script, cast, choreography, set, sound, and special effects of live and recorded performances. Their work may be in educational, instruction, entertainment, and informational spheres. The minimum educationals requirements for these occupations are a combination of some college education and significant experience in film, television or theater.

A Producer and Director earns salaries somewhere between $36,070 – $184,660 based on seniority levels. usually receive a pay level of ninety-six thousand six hundred and ninety dollars yearly.

are compensated at the highest average salary in California, where they earn normal pay levels of close to $126,220. These employees make the highest salary in Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services, where they receive average wages of $112,710.

The national wage distribution is shown below. To overlay local salaries for a Producer and Director , please select your state.

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Producers and Directors tend to make the most in the following
industries:

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

$112,710

Administrative, Support and Waste Management Services

$98,790

Information

$97,780

Manufacturing

$95,250

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation

$92,170

Management of Companies and Enterprises

$92,030

In general, they earn less within the industries below:

Health Care and Social Assistance

$61,880

Educational Services

$66,430

Retail Trade

$76,060

Finance and Insurance

$77,550

Public Administration

$78,330

Other Services (except Public Administration)

$82,480

Director Salary (October 2022) – Zippia

Updated August 22, 2022

$113,489yearly

To create our salary estimates, Zippia starts with data published in publicly available sources such as the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Foreign Labor Certification Data Center (FLC) Show More

$54.56 hourly

Entry level Salary

$66,000

yearly

$66,000

10 %

$113,489

Median

$192,000

90 %

How much does a Director make?

Directors make $113,489 per year on average, or $54.56 per hour, in the United States. Directors on the lower end of that spectrum, the bottom 10% to be exact, make roughly $66,000 a year, while the top 10% makes $192,000.

Location impacts how much a director can expect to make. Directors make the most in New York, California, Connecticut, Georgia, and New Jersey.

Highest Paying State

New York

Highest Paying City

New York, NY

Highest Paying Company

Mayo Clinic

What Am I Worth?

Highest Paying State

New York

Highest Paying City

New York, NY

Highest Paying Company

Mayo Clinic

What Am I Worth?

Highest Paying States For Directors

The darker areas on the map show where directors earn the highest salaries across all 50 states.

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Average Salary:

Director average salary by State

Rank	State	Avg. Salary	Hourly Rate	Job Count
1	New York	$135,344	$65.07	9,033
2	California	$131,748	$63.34	16,220
3	Connecticut	$122,159	$58.73	1,489
4	New Jersey	$109,188	$52.49	5,270
5	District of Columbia	$113,852	$54.74	1,473
6	Massachusetts	$104,675	$50.32	5,842
7	Georgia	$109,902	$52.84	3,305
8	Texas	$100,310	$48.23	7,261
9	Illinois	$96,039	$46. 17	5,599
10	Washington	$97,159	$46.71	2,740
11	Rhode Island	$90,887	$43.70	638
12	Virginia	$97,075	$46.67	3,489
13	Nevada	$92,123	$44.29	705
14	Delaware	$92,963	$44.69	518
15	West Virginia	$103,465	$49.74	328
16	North Carolina	$91,048	$43.77	3,534
17	Florida	$91,455	$43.97	5,248
18	Vermont	$87,042	$41.85	348
19	Maryland	$96,004	$46.16	2,078
20	Oregon	$86,486	$41.58	2,145
21	Arizona	$87,154	$41.90	1,950
22	Hawaii	$100,633	$48. 38	225
23	Pennsylvania	$83,557	$40.17	4,551
24	Michigan	$90,763	$43.64	1,680
25	Minnesota	$85,460	$41.09	2,148
26	New Hampshire	$84,174	$40.47	577
27	Colorado	$85,569	$41.14	1,892
28	Maine	$76,641	$36.85	396
29	Ohio	$76,333	$36.70	2,715
30	Idaho	$76,110	$36.59	488
31	Kentucky	$77,396	$37.21	909
32	Tennessee	$75,391	$36.25	1,574
33	Mississippi	$79,223	$38.09	366
34	Wisconsin	$75,041	$36.08	1,471
35	Wyoming	$73,025	$35. 11	189
36	Utah	$68,049	$32.72	1,272
37	Montana	$69,926	$33.62	427
38	New Mexico	$73,599	$35.38	553
39	Missouri	$73,563	$35.37	1,482
40	Alaska	$68,099	$32.74	246
41	Alabama	$71,484	$34.37	634
42	Indiana	$66,872	$32.15	1,600
43	Nebraska	$65,553	$31.52	616
44	Oklahoma	$67,685	$32.54	574
45	South Carolina	$66,539	$31.99	1,000
46	North Dakota	$64,637	$31.08	239
47	South Dakota	$64,476	$31.00	231
48	Arkansas	$63,773	$30. 66	627
49	Louisiana	$65,507	$31.49	622
50	Kansas	$61,347	$29.49	784
51	Iowa	$59,877	$28.79	647

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Highest Paying Cities For Directors

Rank	City	Avg. Salary	Hourly Rate
1	New York, NY	$139,575	$67.10
2	Los Angeles, CA	$136,707	$65.72
3	Stamford, CT	$125,420	$60.30
4	Washington, DC	$114,648	$55.12
5	Atlanta, GA	$109,715	$52.75
6	Jersey City, NJ	$109,651	$52.72
7	Boston, MA	$104,894	$50.43
8	San Antonio, TX	$104,178	$50.09
9	Seattle, WA	$98,165	$47.19
10	Richmond, VA	$96,902	$46.59
11	Chicago, IL	$96,407	$46.35
12	Baltimore, MD	$96,191	$46.25
13	Miami, FL	$93,950	$45.17
14	Las Vegas, NV	$92,870	$44. 65
15	Raleigh, NC	$92,325	$44.39

Here Are The Five Most In Demand Cities Right Now:

1. New York, NY
2. Los Angeles, CA
3. Stamford, CT
4. Washington, DC
5. Atlanta, GA

Director Salary Details

Average Director Salary Graph, Trends, and Summary

What is a Director’s Salary?

Average Salary By Related Titles

Job Title	Annual Salary	Monthly Salary	Hourly Rate	Job Openings
Director Of Operations And Finance	$118,503	$9,875	$56. 97	186,569
Regional Director Of Operations	$115,156	$9,596	$55.36	130,533
Director, Special Projects	$129,916	$10,826	$62.46	45,103
Department Director	$97,804	$8,150	$47.02	73,424
Operations Director	$104,050	$8,671	$50.02	114,993
Corporate Director	$154,906	$12,909	$74.47	66,254

Here are the five companies hiring the most now:

1. Deutsche Bank Jobs (223)
2. Credit Suisse Jobs (262)
3. Citi Jobs (195)
4. Pwc Jobs (931)
5. UBS Jobs (123)

Which Companies Pay Directors The Most?

The highest paying companies for directors are Mayo Clinic and ICE Mortgage Technology according to our most recent salary estimates. In addition, companies like Apple and Barclays report highly competitive wages for directors.

How Much Do Directors Make In Different Industries?

Director salaries can vary depending on the industry. In fact, our data shows that the finance, professional, and manufacturing industries tend to offer much higher salaries for directors. For example, directors make a whopping average salary of $155,819 while working in the finance industry. Meanwhile, other people in this field are making $134,650 in the professional industry and $129,923 in the manufacturing industry.

Directors may want to avoid working in the government industry as it offers the lowest average salary of $87,856.

Highest Paying Industries For Directors

Rank	Industry	Average Salary	Hourly Rate
1	Finance	$155,819	$74.91
2	Professional	$134,650	$64.74
3	Manufacturing	$129,923	$62.46
4	Technology	$127,752	$61. 42
5	Health Care	$112,060	$53.88
6	Government	$87,856	$42.24

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Director Salaries FAQs

What state pays Directors the most?

New York pays Directors the most in the United States, with an average salary of $135,344 per year, or $65.07 per hour.

How do I know if I’m being paid fairly as a Director?

You know if you are being paid fairly as a Director if your pay is close to the average pay for the state you live in. For example, if you live in California you should be paid close to $131,748 per year.

What type of Director gets paid the most?

Corporate Director gets paid the most. Corporate Director made a median salary of $154,906. The best-paid 10 percent make $192,000, while the lowest-paid 10 percent make $124,000.

What is a good starting salary for a Director?

A good starting salary for a director is $89,000 in the United States. That puts you in the 10th percentile of annual income for a director in the U.S., which is about what you would expect if you were new to the field. The average salary for directors is $148,026, but that normally requires some level of experience to achieve. Furthermore, a good starting salary for a director can vary by state.

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Updated August 22, 2022

How much does a director earn

And what it takes to take a leadership position

We have already done a statistical analysis of the vacancies of a cleaner, a driver and a salesperson. But this time we decided not to waste time on trifles – this article is about leaders.

Sergey Antonov

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After analyzing more than two thousand vacancies on the Headhunter, Superjob and Jobs in Russia websites, we found out who is hired as a boss and what salary is offered.

Nominee director

2% of all vacancies we found are so-called nominee directors. They are looking for a person to whom one-day firms will be registered. Experience and education are not important. Only Russian citizenship and no criminal record are required. The task is to go to the tax office, banks and a notary and put a signature where they show. They pay from 20,000 R.

They are not shy about vacancies, they write like this: nominee director. Another such position may be called an interim director. We did a detailed analysis of what such work is fraught with. In short, they can be imprisoned.

What kind of job

Most employers require that a director candidate already have managerial experience—usually one to three years. Even in vacancies, they often write that you need to have experience in exactly the area in which the company specializes. For example, to get a job as a store director, you need sales management skills, a school director needs five years of teaching experience, and a private clinic director needs experience in managing medical facilities.

Requirements for a CEO in a Moscow company: knowledge of a computer and a university diploma in the specialty “Fishing”. Vacancy from the site “Work in Russia”

How much they pay

Based on vacancies, the average salary of a director is almost 54,992 RUR. This is almost 20% higher than the national average — 45,848 RUR.

— from bosses in large corporations and their regional branches.

The lowest salary of a director, based on vacancies, is 3752 R. This is the amount offered to the director of a club in the village of Teplovo, Kaluga Region.

The maximum salary is 500,000 RUR. There are two vacancies with this salary. The Moscow company Blackwill is engaged in the construction of gazebos and barbecue complexes – they are looking for a managing director who will bring the company to profit in two months. Another vacancy in Bashkortostan: the Metta group of companies is looking for a technical project manager. The enterprise produces metal euro-container and metal frame chrome-plated furniture.

The salary of a club director in the Kaluga region is 3,752 rubles. Cultural and educational activities on a part-time basis. Vacancy from the site “Work in Russia” The new managing director faces a difficult task: “to earn money, and not” suck out of partners “”. Vacancy at Headhunter To work as a head of technical projects for 500 thousand, you must have a higher specialized education, know the basics of technical design and be willing to earn a lot. Vacancy at “Superjob”

In what region is it better to work

The easiest way to become a manager is in the capital — a quarter of all vacancies for directors are in Moscow. In second place is St. Petersburg – 10% of vacancies, the third line is shared by the Moscow region and Novosibirsk – 5% each.

The highest average salary for directors is also in Moscow — 73,691 RUR. For comparison, the least on average is offered to bosses in the Bryansk region — 10,271 RUR.

Regions with the highest salaries of directors

Moscow

73,691 R

Arkhangelsk Region

71,800 R

Chuvashia

70,000 R

Adygea

69,461 R

Penza Region

67,917 R

Leaders are needed in various areas. For example, you can get a job as the director of a newspaper in Tatarstan, an Orthodox gymnasium in Nizhny Novgorod, or the head of a boiler house in a correctional colony near Perm. Well, if you get bored with everything and want to create in the wilderness, you can go to work as the director of a rural puppet theater in the Altai Territory.

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What is the average CFO salary? – Financial Encyclopedia

The median annual salary according to Salary.com, the median U.S. CFO salary as of April 2019 was $371,548 per year. CFOs in the bottom 25th percentile should expect $291,721 per year, and CFOs in the 75th percentile should expect $462,923 per year.

For comparison, the median weekly earnings of full-time workers in the US was $886 as of January 2019year, which is 46,072 US dollars per year. Thus, the average CFO earns more than eight times what the average worker earns, making the career of a CFO very lucrative by comparison.

CFO Salary, Benefits and Benefits

The main factors that affect the average CFO salary are geographic location and the experience and personal qualifications of the individual. The base salary is approximately 70% of the total compensation that the CFO is due to receive in a given year. Other areas of compensation are bonuses and perks and benefits.

When bonuses and benefits are included in salary, the average total CFO compensation is $519,692 per year. Those in the bottom 25th percentile should expect to earn $363,567 per year, while those in the 75th percentile should expect to earn $743,025 per year. CFO benefits include Social Security, 401(k), disability, medical care, retirement, and time off. The cost of these perks and benefits for the average CFO is around 30% of his or her total remuneration.

Job benefits vary but can include a company car or driver, a hefty severance pay, also known as a golden parachute, travel expenses, use of a private jet or helicopter, and first class flights. While health care is a typical benefit, high-level executives such as CFOs have access to disability and life insurance. Workplace-related perks may include, but are not limited to, a dedicated parking space, large offices, and private bathrooms.

As for the total salary, it depends not only on experience, but also on the place of work. In large metropolitan areas and “financial capitals of the world” such as New York, wages will be higher. The table below shows base compensation and total compensation, including annual bonuses, for the top 10 metropolitan areas:

What it takes to become a CFO

Most CEOs have an average of 15 years of relevant work experience and typically hold an MBA ). In many cases, the CFO will also be a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Typically, CFOs have assisted in previous positions such as Controller or CFO. Some of them may have worked in the accounting department.

According to Salary.com, approximately half of CFOs have a master’s degree and 45% have a bachelor’s degree. Meanwhile, only 2% have a doctorate or associate’s degree, and only 1% of CFOs have only a high school diploma. In terms of salary, there is not much difference between a financial director with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree.