How much do Sound Engineers make?

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I'm interested in this career but I'm curious as to how much they make?

Answer 1

Some of the better studios may charge upward of $100 per hour, and the sound engineer may make a good portion of that, BUT the sound engineer will only be making good bucks of the studio is booked 24/7 (a lot of them aren't booked solid). If the studio pays strictly by the hour, then there probably isn't a medical plan, vacation pay, or other benefits.

By the time you take your $35 to $50 per hour raw pay, take out dead time, taxes and pay for your own insurance, retirement, etc., the equivalent pay can be down around $15 to 20 per hour.

If you prove yourself to be a good sound engineer (with hard work and experience) then you might get up to the $40/hour (net) range someday.

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Answer 2

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How much do Sound Engineers make?
I'm interested in this career but I'm curious as to how much they make?

Answer 3

Depend which engineer it is. there are ( mechanical, computer engineer(software or hardware), civics engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering but i do know that most of those engineer makes bout 60k/year once they out of school and it will increase the more you woke each year. that about 25$/hour

Answer 4

hey i was intrested on that career to and i indagete about it a little, but here in my country its difficult to have acces to that carrer

well the sound engineers manage the sounds for bands, theymasterize records, they work for the goverment as enviroment helpers because of tha noise contamination, they works on tv channels radio stations there are alot to work for sound engineers im studying sistems engineer and id like to study the sound one...

good luck thats a reaaly cool career

Answer 5

You know, most of the ones I know work for free. I think it's one of those fun side jobs that everybody wants! No heavy lifting.