Television, Video, and Motion Picture Camera Operators and Editors

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Income Percentile Stats

• To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $459,218 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
• To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $183,029 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.

Income of Television, Video, and Motion Picture Camera Operators and Editors by Highest Education Level

Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:

• Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 23.7th and 26.7th percentiles.
• Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 27.6th and 40.4th percentiles.
• Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 32.4th and 38.8th percentiles.
• Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 39.7th and 50.3th percentiles.
• Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 52.6th and 58.6th percentiles.

Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level

Highest Level of Education for Television, Video, and Motion Picture Camera Operators and Editors:

• Other (N/A or Less than HS): 1.5%
• HS Diploma / GED: 8.5%
• Associates Degree and Some College: 26.3%
• Bachelors Degree: 54%
• Masters Degree: 8.6%
• Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.9%
• Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 0.3%

Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors

• For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 35.6th and 48.3th percentiles.
• For Fine Arts undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 38.5th and 46th percentiles.
• For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 45.9th and 55.5th percentiles.
• For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 35.4th and 52.2th percentiles.
• For English Language, Literature, and Composition undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 47.5th and 63th percentiles.
• For Computer and Information Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 53.4th and 58.7th percentiles.
• For Communication Technologies undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 45.7th and 62.3th percentiles.
• For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 43th and 57.9th percentiles.
• For Liberal Arts and Humanities undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 32.6th and 51.9th percentiles.
• For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 55.4th and 55.4th percentiles.

Note: The source data only records undergraduate degree majors, even if a person continues to study.

Treemap of Undergraduate Majors

Methodology and Assumptions

This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2017-2022. These results represent 81,381 Television, Video, and Motion Picture Camera Operators and Editors. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 2920 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).

Exclusions and Filters Applied:

• Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
• High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
• Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can.
The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
• All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
• There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
  • Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
  • Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
  • Doctoral Degree: PHd