A recent survey by the Creative Workers Union Thailand (CUT) shows that almost 80% of illustrators have commission-based, underpaid jobs, highlighting the precarity of freelancers who have no access to financial security, welfare benefits orlegal protection.
The union found that of 380 illustrators, the majority of them are young adults aged 20-30, female and educated. Up to 68.1% graduated with bachelor's degrees. Nearly half of them are full-time workers (40.1%), followed by part-time students (37.8%) and side jobbers (22.1%).
