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Bill Gabel
Film God
Posts: 3873
From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 01-29-2002 11:40 AM
When I worked for GCC, I ran a 7 plex, but we got 8 plex rate
($15.75). Back with the Northridge earthquake, we lost 3 screens
of the plex (At the time it was a 5 plex) GCC paid us 6 plex rate
for the year till other screens were rebuilt. We also got B/Up and
T/D + $1.00 for each trailer. When I worked for Mann Theatre's, I
ran two theatres, a 6 & 3 screen theatre for $17.50. But had to
fix everything at each location. (seats,lights,snack bar,popcorn poppers,ticket machines and oh yes the booth) One summer I worked
a vacation at Pacific's Cinerama Dome the rate was $10.50. About
month later I worked another vacation at Pacific's Vine theatre at
the $10.50 rate also. The funny thing about this is the Dome is
1st run and the Vine was a dive 2nd run house. Doing film
festivals like AFM and AFI, you got festival rates. (AFM was $20.00
hr with B/Up at 20.00 and T/D at 10.00). (AFI was $26.00hr).
Doing the Bel-Air runs, you would make $200.00-$250.00 a show.
I worked the Bel-Air runs for 10 years. Now I handle post-
production projection.
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John Pytlak
Film God
Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 01-29-2002 12:45 PM
When I was working my way through college (1967-1970), I worked at several small town theatres, progressing from $2.00 per hour to about $3.00 per hour as I gained experience (a bit above minimum wage at the time). I also filled in at a union theatre in the city (helping out the IATSE Business Agent when he didn't have people to fill some holiday/vacation shifts), at much better pay.Yet I found the most important factor in enjoying my work was the management at the theatre. I really enjoyed working at the theatres where I was given responsibility, but left on my own to do a good job. Working at one theatre was an ordeal because I was always second-guessed on my decisions, and the manager would nit-pick over things as trivial as the length of carbon stubs in the can --- he would rather have the lamp go out than "waste" an extra inch of carbon. 
Money and job satisfaction are not the same thing. (Although money helps  ). ------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-29-2002 12:48 PM
When I first started in this industry 17 years ago, I made $4 per hour and $7,000 per year.Not once in the motion picture exhibition industry as an assistant manager, manager, head projectionist, and audio video designer/installer, have I ever made as much as a teacher. Now I own a theatre and after two years and a large profit, we still don't make as much as a starting teacher in Sonoma County; but we will.  In spite of all that, my lifestyle hasn't changed much; although it takes quite a bit more money than it used to. Every time I have made significantly more money, forces have conspired to separate me from it. This year I got a large bonus and took my car in for service. What I thought might cost $200 ended up costing me $1,600 and I'm am not done yet. I used to think, "If only my salary would double." But even then it wouldn't be enough for this county. This is where they are thinking of giving housing assistants to Firemen and Policemen because the poor dears are struggling to make ends meet at $70,000 - $85,000 per year. Live frugally, cherish what you have and laugh your ass off at the fools and assholes who spend $50,000 to $100,000 on automobiles that can go 155 miles per hour and 0-60 in 4 seconds in a land where going half that speed will get you a ticket and the old person in front of you will not get out of your way in spite of the fact that they are driving something with a V8 that could smoke your car if they ever decided to press the accelerator. (That, my friends, is a run-on sentence.) Oh, and try to stay out of debt. Nothing drives you insane faster than worrying about how to get out of debt.
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