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WGA West Member Earnings Down $185M In 2020 Due To Pandemic, But Employment Fell Only 6.6%

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EXCLUSIVE: Reported earnings by WGA West members were down nearly $185 million last year, a 10.5% decline from 2019 because of the pandemic and months of shuttered film and TV production, according to the guild’s latest annual financial report.

Total reported earnings fell to $1.5712 billion last year, down from $1.756 billion the year before – the first earnings decline since 2014.

Even so, the employment of guild members fell by only 6.6% – to 6,108 jobs last year, which was down from 6,541 jobs in 2019.“While the Covid-19 pandemic brought film and television production to a standstill in early 2020, many writers were able to continue working remotely through the year,” the report says. “Still, writers’ reported earnings and employment

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