Strong backing for AI protections and low confidence in employer efforts to tackle sexual harassment also key findings.
A survey of over 2,100 Equity members – who work as performers and creative practitioners, such as actors, comedians, dancers, designers, directors, stage management, and more – reveals the extent of the creative workforce’s precarity:
- Nearly half (48%) of respondents reported that their average annual income from performance-related work was under £10,000.
- Only 1 in 4 (25%) feel confident about meeting the cost of living from their work in the creative industries, with 62% having to work outside of the industry to pay bills.
- Only a quarter (26%) are very confident that they will be working in the creative industries in three years’ time.
- 30% of respondents have had to relocate to London or the southeast in order to take a job in the creative industries.
In other areas of the survey:
- Only 13% felt that employers in the industry were doing enough to prevent sexual harassment.
- A whopping 91% support the introduction of personality rights to tackle artificial intelligence (AI) exploitation, with only 13% of those who have had their voice or likeness digitally captured feeling confident the digital capture will be used in places and ways they will be informed of and are happy with.
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