A wake-up call
Liz Hill introduces the grim findings published this week in the ArtsPay 2018 report on pay in the arts and cultural sector.
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£8,000 pay penalty for part-time senior women, research finds
Women are being penalised for part-time working in the arts and cultural sector, earning full-time equivalent salaries that fall s…
Senior arts staff sidelining digital work, research finds
Digital skills are spread thin in cultural organisations, with only one in six of those in the most senior strategic roles identif…
Exploitation rife as unpaid work subsidises the arts
Working practices that “wouldn't be tolerated in any other industry” have become the norm across the sector, with…
Pay crisis builds as arts workers struggle to make ends meet
Across the UK, but especially in London, arts workers are considering their futures in the sector as salaries have fallen out of s…
Only a third of artists’ income comes from their art, research finds
A newly-released Arts Council England report finds that portfolio careers are the norm among artists, and that the sector is domin…
Class influences career entry but not career progression, research finds
Over 70% of respondents now working in music, the visual arts or museums/heritage come from households where the main income earne…
EXCLUSIVE: Gender gap dominates latest arts pay figures
Lack of career progression among women in the cultural sector is the overwhelming contributor to the significant gender pay gap re…
ACE Directors paid £1m last year
Role changes, salary increases and associated benefits led to members of Arts Council England’s senior team seeing their rem…
DCMS says ‘none of our business’ on ACE executive pay
Arts Council backs big pay rises for top staff while its paymaster claims to have no powers to intervene.
