illuminating rates for commercial artists - check our website for freelance rates other workers have been paid! 📧 litebox.info@protonmail.com

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our first project is a website that showcases rates other illustrators and cartoonists have been paid for their work. we all have a right to know what our peers are being paid. check it out here! litebox.info/2019/08/02/wage…
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Heyo- Litebox Doesn't have any rates for the year 2023, so if yr doing some bookkeeping before you do your taxes this year, please remember to pop on by the site & submit some rates so your peers can better negotiate in 2024!! 👇You can submit here👇 litebox.info/2019/08/02/wage…
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@litebox_info is a great resource for people to check out for checking pay rates
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We're back up & ready2rumble (help you negotiate better pay)
Looks like @litebox_info's site is down at the moment, but I encourage you to bookmark them and check back with them later!
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Site was down for a few hours. We have no idea why- but it's back up!! Plz head over to Litebox.info & submit what you've been paid for illustration gigs, to combat the dark forces trying to silence us!
Is @litebox_info site down or is it my browser?
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Please fill out your experience with companies on our Rate Finder- & don't forget to leave the gorey details in the comments section 🖤 👇 litebox.info/2019/08/02/wage…
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Lotta changes w/r/t media companies & freelance work this year. Getting reports of scarcity w/r/t creative agency gigs. How has yr year been going? Did you submit any rates to Litebox to create worker power with your fellow freelancers this year? 👇 litebox.info/2019/08/02/wage…
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Lots of really great people involved with what looks like an incredible endeavor 👇👇👇
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Litebox has also signed this open letter to the NY Times alongside 200+ freelance contributors & @FSP_NWU - condemning their horrific coverage of trans, non-binary & gender non-conforming people. Read the letter & add yr support here: nytletter.com/
I was happy to sign onto this open letter by 180 current and former NY Times contributors criticizing the paper’s recent turn in coverage of trans issues. buzzfeednews.com/article/lil…
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We not only fully endorse that Deb's quote was accurate & Fortnite's art dept was out of line in low-balling them. It's been on our website for YEARS that the floor for copyright STARTS at $10K. That number, adjusted for inflation from 2018 is truly closer to $15k+ now.
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should’ve been $15k+ Also don’t forget that litebox.info exists!
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For anyone who needs further clarification- we touched on the subject with helpful resources for negotiating extensively here 👇
Some folks have asked us to weigh-in on Work-For-Hire contracts & why their ubiquity is so awful for our industry & we’ve taken our time on this because, welp- It’s complicated. A Thread on Work For Hire Contracts- 1/
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As freelance workers we don't get health or retirement benefits like full-time employees do. Our copyright & the ability to re-sell work we created over our lifetime is our only benefits package. Essentially- this is why that job was a $15k+ job: 👇
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Forfeiting copyright is forfeiting all future revenue on the work you’ve created. Quite often to a company that won’t even use the work enough to necessitate needing full copyright. That's revenue you could've used to pay for healthcare, vacations, & retirement savings. 5/
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For anyone who needs further clarification- we touched on the subject with helpful resources for negotiating extensively here 👇
Some folks have asked us to weigh-in on Work-For-Hire contracts & why their ubiquity is so awful for our industry & we’ve taken our time on this because, welp- It’s complicated. A Thread on Work For Hire Contracts- 1/
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But essentially- this is why that job was a $15k+ job: 👇
Replying to @litebox_info
Forfeiting copyright is forfeiting all future revenue on the work you’ve created. Quite often to a company that won’t even use the work enough to necessitate needing full copyright. That's revenue you could've used to pay for healthcare, vacations, & retirement savings. 5/
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We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.
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Solidarity with those walking out. The NYT's abysmally low freelance illustration rates set the low standards every other art department follows- but a rising tide lifts all boats... or at least it's supposed to
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That’s why tomorrow’s walkout is, for now, still on.
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As an aditional resource, I'd add @ThirdWorld_Art for artists from the Global South! Many times, employers go seek third world artist for lower rates -- and those artists charge lower because of misinfo
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Litebox retweeted
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Check out @litebox_info - they also share this info. Rates the last few years were all over the place 4 me & not sustainable so I went FT months ago. book project (small pub, 20 pieces, $6K) major weekly mag ($300-$500) Comics ($100-$200/page, but works out to below min wage)
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