Japanese entertainers denounce low wages through social networks

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This week, the #AnimationPaidMe hashtag went viral in Japan, where animation industry workers from around the world went public with their earnings for their stakes, showing stark disparities. In fact, the hashtag was derived from others like #PublishingPaidMe and #GameDevPaidMe, which focused on demonstrating the disparity in profits between whites and people of color in the United States. From there, the hashtag #AnimationPaidMe went global, as even the animators from Japan shared their earnings revealing, to the surprise of few, that they are the ones with the least income.

One of the posts includes a Japanese who served as animation director, but did not disclose the projects he worked on for privacy reasons. In addition, this user clarified in a subsequent response that these earnings are calculated before taxes and do not include insurance.
Other posts included a freelancer animator who worked in Japan and revealed his annual earnings back then. According to his data, in 2018 he earned a total of $ 26,890, and in 2019 he decided to resign and join the military, where he earns $ 9,000 a month.
A professional entertainer revealed that in the industry he gets a monthly salary ranging from $ 700 to $ 1,400, which a year turns into a profit of just $ 10,000 to $ 23,000. In addition, he noted that the job is unstable and offers few opportunities, denoting that the anime industry in Japan is in a tailspin.
An artist from the Philippines also revealed the earnings he makes from working for both Japanese and non-Japanese industries. The user stressed that artists hired via outsourcing receive practically "a pittance". This is reflected in that his participation in the “Go Astroboy Go” scenarios in 2018 represented a profit of 350 Philippine pesos, which is a total of $ 7 for each scenario performed.
However, the trend reached a point of debate when entertainers from the United States and Canada began to reveal their earnings, revealing an abysmal difference between wages. This was reflected in a post where an artist revealed that, in setting the stage for a Netflix production, he made a profit of around $ 100,000. Just for reference, the Philippine artist would have to make more than 14 thousand scenarios to barely match that utility.
Finally, according to a 2019 survey by the Japan Animation Creators Association (JAniCA), the average annual profit for workers in the anime industry in Japan is 4,410.00 yen (about $ 40,000) Although the average for tweening entertainers is just 1,250,000 yen (about $ 11,400). Even worse, young workers ages 20-24 reported earnings of 1,550.00 yen (about $ 14,000), which is one million yen less than the national average for that age group.

Source: Cartoon Brew 

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