There, we didn’t look at just the endpoint years of 20, but at each individual year in that 11 year period. For that analysis, we went to the same source as USA Today, the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics (bls.gov), specifically the Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates. ![]() That 178% increase over the decade put the category right up there with Oil Engineers and Language Translators, which is why it made it into the USA today article.īut a more thorough analysis of the data shows something significant. And indeed, the number of Music Directors and Composers jumped significantly during that time from approximately 9,000 in 2002 to 25,000 in 2012. The USA today article based its findings by comparing employment for different job categories in 2002 and comparing it with employment figures for 2012, a decade’s worth of growth. So where are all the new composer jobs coming from? A deeper analysis of the BLS data shows a different and far more likely source than USA reported/speculated. Given the trouble many orchestras seem to be having, we feel pretty confident that 15,000 new orchestras didn’t pop into existence while we weren’t looking… The BLS lumps that job together with composers when compiling its statistics (don’t ask us why!). Perhaps it was Music Directors (Conductors of orchestras and bands). And with similar mild growth in media advertising, even combined with other traditional media, that couldn’t account for the large uptick in employment. In fact, although the number Indy movies has increased, there was a 31% decrease in the number of films from the big 6 studios. Although there has been a moderate increase in the number of movies released from 2003 to 2012, there certainly wasn’t the kind of growth that would match the increase in composers’ employment. ![]() The speculation that commercials and movies were responsible for driving growth seemed suspect, so we decided to take a closer look. The newspaper further speculated that a “factor driving job growth for this occupation” is a greater need for original music used in “commercials and movies.” Composers were behind only “Petroleum Engineers” and “Service Unit Operators for Oil, Gas and Mining” in a study that considered hundreds of occupations over a 10 year period. The paper listed them as the having the third largest percentage gain in employment over the past decade according to data taken from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). ![]() USA Today Reports Composers Third-fastest Growing Job in US: But they got the reason wrong.Īs was reported by USA Today, Music Directors and Composers have had a great decade, with 10 year job growth of 178%.
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