Budget Tips + Paying Artists
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Work of Art: Free PDF w/income goals and a pricing section p 82 of the PDF
https://springboardforthearts.org/professional-growth/work-of-art-program/
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Creative Study offers many courses to help creatives navigate the business aspects of their work, but a subscription fee is required for access.
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(currently offline - hope to update soon!)
Practical Administration: Timelines, Budgets, and Planning
The Project Budget section has two different suggestions on how to calculate fees to pay yourself and collaborators!
This slightly older Creative Capital PDF from 2017 does cover similar content.
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W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) offers comparisons and some transparency regarding artist labor and compensation at arts organizations and artist-run spaces nationally.
Their fee calculator is a chart of different orgs. Click on one to see the overall operating budget and the breakdown of potential pay for different forms of work.
The Big Field Fund acknowledges that there are many different ways to think about budgets, creative economies, and artist compensation. Core factors will likely include: geographic location, balancing time with other paid forms of labor, and your phase of professional artistic development.