I'm a SWE but have a close friend who is starting out their career in the entertainment industry...Just out of pure curiosity why do entertainment companies think they can pay their interns nothing? I mean these media companies are giants right? Don't understand why interns are getting paid minimum wage or less?
Some companies don’t have a lot of money so they pay people less than minimum wage. Or maybe they think they don’t need to spend very much to get a good enough employee. Some people are willing to work for that.
Because they dont care. If there is an army of people willing to work for free why bother paying?
Because law doesn't allow it?
You can get around it by offering equivalent of one semesters course credit. Thats how a lot of these industries skirt the law.
I've found that the M&E draw is enough of a reason for people allow themselves to be taken advantage of. This is the reason the Producers guild has to bargain with Unions for everything from Crafts, to Editing and even Engineering. Capitalism may be efficient, but its really sad to see these young people forgoing their present value, for a heightened sense of entitlement & experience working in M&E. We hired interns one day and literally half of them were only about "Meeting (famous person)" 😔
Supply and demand. Tons of supply because so many people want to be in entertainment. Not that much demand for entry level staff. In tech there's tons of demand. There's still excess supply at the low / entry level end, but if you have experience or are a recent graduate you are in low supply and high demand.
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Way more qualified employees than open positions. You're expendable, so they don't care.
Yep. Nobody gets paid for being good. You get paid because you’re scarce.
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