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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

My God you are ignorant. The strike is not about movie screenplay writers, it has nothing to do with them. So putting aside yet another useless analogy of yours--yes, let's talk about "numbers for the writers who write for a television show that is on every week."

In 2006, the average weekly pay for a writing job in television broadcasting in New York was $2,450. Weekly--what an odd way to calculate it, right? Why not yearly? It's because they really are paid by the week. A standard show season is usually 13 weeks, 26 weeks at most. So that translates to $31,850-$63,700 per year. You might get lucky enough to be employed on more than one show, but their seasons must be completely independent and not overlap for even a week, which is difficult with cable and impossible with networks.

63,700 for half a year's work is extremely good. In fact 44k is good for half a year's worth of work too. This reminds me of the idiots who say teacher's aren't paid enough when they get 40-60k per year with a 3 month vacation. I wouldn't make that much money if I didn't work for 3 months each year.

God forbid writers should find another job during the other 6 months and have to work all year like everyone else. There's a lot of people who work much harder and who have a far greater education than most writers who don't make that much money working all year.