<p>Ranked 9: Visual and Performing Arts
Ranked 7: Studio Arts
Ranked 6: Drama and Theater Arts</p>
<p>Visual</a> and Performing Arts - The 20 Best- and Worst-Paid College Majors - TIME</p>
<p>Congradulations!</p>
<p>Any Thoughts?</p>
<p>Xeebra, the article is misleading. First, some applied art majors can make a lot of money. Secondly, average means average. If you are among the better ones in your field, you can make a very good living in visual arts. I would say the same for performing arts except even fewer make it than in visual arts. However, those that do, can make a bundle!</p>
<p>Yea “those” who make it…</p>
<p>Thoughts -</p>
<p>Half the people in Hollywood are waiting tables/bartending/catering to support their muse. But most of them wouldn’t want to be anyplace else…</p>
<p>If you are not interested in CONSTANTLY looking for work, hustling for jobs and just figuring out new ways to make money in your metier, then you should not be in the visual or performing arts. The arts industries are in a constant state of flux and always looking for something new. D lives in LA, holds down three part time jobs (all in music) and also gets 75-90 dollars an hour teaching private lessons. She works 6 days a week ONLY in her art and she is fully booked. It pays well and it makes a good living, but she is always looking for that next extra gig. We have found that the people who do not make it, though they are talented and went to fantastic schools, are just not into the constant-never-ending hustle. Keeping that momentum up is very very tough,so those stats do not surprise me. , (additional point of reference: H is in the film industry and I am involved in visual arts.)</p>
<p>^^^musicamusica: d’accord! That is very true.</p>
<p>For data regarding careers in the visual arts, take a look at this study done by the Indiana University and Vanderbilt: [Snaapshot</a> | SNAAP: Strategic National Arts Alumni Project](<a href=“http://www.snaap.indiana.edu/snaapshot/]Snaapshot”>http://www.snaap.indiana.edu/snaapshot/). Although “hustle” can be seen as a negative, if you use your connections, beginning with your professors and fellow alumni, you will never be stuck in a boring project. It is true, that you have to have a certain spirit to pursue your career, but as the data in the SNAAP survey shows, the job satisfaction is very high.</p>