Research on reimbursed and non-reimbursed activities of arts professionals in cultural education and amateur art

8 May 2023

Design: Grafisch Geluk

As a self-employed person or freelancer in cultural education and amateur art, it is sometimes difficult to estimate for which activities you will receive financial compensation and for which activities you will not. What about when you prepare a rehearsal for a choir or music company? Or a lesson or course? Do you get reimbursed for travel time? And do you go to meetings on your own time or are they within your paid hours?

To gain insight into paid and unpaid work in commissioned workers within cultural education and amateur arts, we encourage you to complete this questionnaire.

The questionnaire is an initiative of clients, employer and employee organizations and other interest groups for art professionals and of Platform ACCT (Labor Market Cultural and Creative Future). Together we are working towards a stronger labor market position for those working in the cultural and creative sectors, for example by setting up consultancy rates.

You can fill out the questionnaire completely anonymously. We thank you very much in advance for your cooperation.

Fill out the questionnaire now!

https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/8MBHXHT

Marketing and communications chain table develops guideline rates for freelance marcom work

2 May 2023

Photo: Culture Marketing

Initiated by Culture Marketing and Platform ACCT, a group of 12 freelancers and clients are working to develop guideline rates for freelance marketing and communications work. An update.

The chain table “marketing and communication professionals in culture” was launched in October 2022. The chain tables are part of the fairPACCT program funded by the Ministry of OCW. The goal of fairPACCT is to translate the Fair Practice Code into concrete tools that can be used in practice.

Start of the chain table

The start of the chain table ‘marketing and communication professionals in culture’ was a study on hourly rates of freelance marketing and communication professionals by Cultuurmarketing. The results made it clear that there are large differences between hourly rates, that clients take little account of the number of years of experience a freelancer brings to the table, and that there is a need for guidelines that take into account, among other things, work experience, the type of work and the scope of marketing and communications assignments.

Establishment of guideline rates

The chain table consists of 12 participants who, under the leadership of chair Joan Nunnely, set themselves the task of developing these guidelines. Three meetings have since taken place and the necessary research has been conducted to go along with the creation of the guideline rates.

It turns out that behind the intention to fairly compensate freelancers who perform marketing and communications assignments for the cultural and creative sector, there are a number of causes that mean this does not always work out. Cultural Marketing has outlined these causes.

“Freelance talk: towards guideline rates”

Would you like to learn more about the chain table and the surveys that were conducted? On April 17, Culture Marketing, in collaboration with fairPACCT, is organizing an online meeting in which participants of the chain table will provide an update on the process and discuss the results of the above studies. Participation in this meeting is free.

Pop sector presents report on income gap between commitment and earnings pop musicians

9 March 2023

Photo: Joris Brewer

The chain table of pop musicians presented today at ESNS 2023, after a year of mutual consultation, an analysis of the income gap between current fees and an appropriate and fair fee (fair pay) for pop musicians. This happened in the panel Faire Gages in the Pop Sector with fairPACCT program manager Noud van de Rhee, Pien Feith of Friendly Fire B.V., Rita Zipora of BAM! Pop authors, Jolanda Beyer of Patronage and Will Maas on behalf of Arts Union, led by moderator Oscar Kocken.

Conclusion of the analysis: €7.8 million more is needed per year for fair pay. The analysis and accompanying report, The gap between commitment and earnings of pop musicians, were conducted by consulting firm Berenschot. State Secretary Gunay Uslu accepted the report at the conclusion of the panel.

The report includes “an online tool in the test phase that answers how to arrive at a fair rate that is appropriate to the career stage of an artist/act while also fitting in with how the pop sector works” (VNPF). Not only does this report reveal the contours of a fee guideline for performing musicians, it also provides insight into the steps that still need to be taken to achieve fair pay within the industry.

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