After Hollywood assistants took a stand in 2019, saying they were no longer content to work long hours for low pay under frequently difficult and abusive conditions in order to get a foot in the door, the grass-roots organization #PayUpHollywood began collecting data to get an understanding of the issues assistants face as a basis for leveraging that information to make systemic change.
Three years later, the group has released its latest annual survey and finds that little has changed. Assistants continue to struggle for income parity while shouldering out-of-pocket expenses and find themselves shortchanged on a host of issues, the organization found.
It conducted a survey of 523 current and former assistants working at studios, talent agencies and production and development companies between Nov. 16, 2021, and Jan. 1.
