Media & Creative
What you can do with Film and Media Production
Making video, film and sound, from the shoot to the final cut.
- Careers
- 5
- Early career
- $50,000
- Mid-career
- $80,000
- Growing fast
- 0 of 5
How these numbers work: A major does not have its own salary. Early and mid-career pay is what people who hold this degree earn at the start of their careers and midway through them. Career pay comes from the 5 careers a Film and Media Production degree commonly leads to, and counts everyone in those jobs, including people who have been doing them for thirty years. The two answer different questions, which is why they do not match.
The New York Fed does not report Film and Media Production on its own. Its early and mid-career figures here are for Mass Media, the broader group it places this major in.
0 of 5 careers this degree leads to are projected to grow faster than average from 2024 to 2034.
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5 careers this degree leads to
Film and Video Editor
$75,420Assemble raw footage into finished stories for film, streaming, and social video.
- Middle half of workers
- $52,720 to $105,310
- Growth
- About average
- Openings a year
- 3,600
Work-life64Remote63- Video Editing
- Storytelling
- Color and Sound Basics
- Editing Software
Camera Operator
$74,990Operate cameras for television, video and film, framing every shot the director asks for.
- Middle half of workers
- $50,920 to $106,660
- Growth
- Slower than average
- Openings a year
- 2,900
- Camera Operation
- Composition
- Lighting
- Teamwork
Sound Engineering Technician
$73,130Set up, run and mix the sound for recordings, broadcasts, film and live events.
- Middle half of workers
- $49,910 to $100,280
- Growth
- Declining
- Openings a year
- 1,200
- Audio Mixing
- Signal Processing
- Equipment Setup
- Troubleshooting
Audio / Video Technician
$58,100Set up and run the sound and video systems behind live events, broadcasts, and productions.
- Middle half of workers
- $46,390 to $77,560
- Growth
- About average
- Openings a year
- 7,300
Work-life58Remote56- Live Sound
- Video Systems
- Equipment Setup
- Troubleshooting
Actor
VariesPlay characters on stage, on screen and in voice work, from auditions through rehearsal and performance.
- Growth
- Slower than average
- Openings a year
- 6,300
- Acting Technique
- Memorization
- Improvisation
- Collaboration
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Where these pay figures come from
Early and mid-career pay is the median annual wage of full-time workers who hold a bachelor's degree in that major, ages 22 to 27 and ages 35 to 45, from 2024 data. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (IPUMS). Published as Outcomes by Major by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Career pay is the annual wage of everyone working in that occupation, not only recent graduates, so it includes people who have done the job for decades. The middle half is the 25th to the 75th percentile. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET OnLine (median and percentile annual wages May 2025; employment projections 2024-2034).
All figures are national. What you earn depends on where you work, who you work for, and how far you take the degree.