Stage Actor
Rehearses and performs live to a paying room. Training is continuous and employment is by production.
- Pay band (est.)
- $49k–$202k
- Time to competence
- 9 years
- Licence
- None
- Setting
- stage
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- high
- Physical demand
- 60/100
- Hours burden
- 78/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play98th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge89th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand20th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay46th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body22th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy51th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit24th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility8th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill8th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance33th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Very few earn a full living; casting is outside your control.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is high. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 78/100 and people intensity 85/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Actors (27-2011): median $48,526, 75th percentile (90th not published) $202,155. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +0.0%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.