Mercer Issues Revision On Arts Compensation Study

On April 20, the BC Alliance informed you about a report issued by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Department of Canadian Heritage called 2017 National Compensation Study - For Managerial and Administrative Positions in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations, which reported on wages in the arts sector. Mercer (Canada) Limited, which undertook the study in partnership with the Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC), has now issued a revision related to methodology.

According to the CHRC, "this has led to a change in the average yearly real wage increase which was originally calculated at minus .1%, and has been re-calculated at 6.7% since the previous study in 2008. An improvement and it’s encouraging to see trending in an upward direction but this is still not keeping up with the all industry average real wage growth of approximately 10% over the same time period. For organizations with operating budgets of $250,000 to $1,000,000 (representing 44% of the survey respondents), the real wage increase is calculated to be 3.9% over nine years (0.43% per year), well behind the all industry average real wage growth."

The revised report can be found here.