Why Hollywood writers are going on strike
The Hustle Daily Show
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The Decline of the Average Wage for Writers
According to Vox, the average pay for writers has actually declined 4% in the last 10 years. The median wage for somebody who works on a streaming show is about 46% of the median wage of someone working on a broadcast show. Back in network TV, hey, you'd have 24 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Dawson's Creek and like 12 seasons. And they would go on for a long time. You might get three or four seasons then Netflix usually cuts the chord.
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