Tour Accountant: Tracks the money on a tour: ticket settlements, expenses, payroll, and taxes in each city. Typical pay $110k.
Tour Stage & Show Designer: Designs the whole look of a concert tour: stage shape, video screens, lighting, and special effects. Typical pay $130k.
Touring Musical Director: Leads the band for a major artist's tour, arranging songs and running rehearsals. Typical pay $110k.
Mid pay: solid pay, degree or apprenticeship
Front-of-House (FOH) Engineer: Mixes the live sound the audience hears at concerts, running the mixing desk in the crowd for touring artists, sound companies or venues. Typical pay $80k.
Monitor Engineer: Mixes what performers hear on stage through in-ear monitors and speakers. Typical pay $75k.
Concert Rigger: Climbs into arena ceilings to hang the motors, truss, lights, and speakers for concerts. Typical pay $85k.
Concert Video Director: Runs the giant screens at concerts, cutting live camera shots and playing back visuals. Typical pay $80k.
Playback Engineer: Runs the backing tracks, click tracks, and timecode that sync music with lights and video in modern shows. Typical pay $80k.
Tour Bus Driver: Drives a band's tour bus overnight between cities. Typical pay $70k.
Laser Show Technician: Programs and operates the lasers in concerts, festivals, and clubs safely. Typical pay $65k.
Concert Promoter: Pays artists to perform, rents venues, sells tickets, and takes the financial risk of a show. Typical pay $90k.
Venue Production Manager: Coordinates technical needs between touring shows and a venue's local crew. Typical pay $72k.
Touring Carpenter: Builds and tears down a tour's stage set every show. Typical pay $70k.
LED Video Wall Technician: Builds and runs the giant LED screens at concerts and events. Typical pay $65k.
Tour Caterer: Cooks meals for the band and crew traveling with a tour. Typical pay $60k.
VIP Experience Manager: Runs VIP packages on tours: meet-and-greets and early entry. Typical pay $60k.
Tour Truck Driver: Drives tractor-trailers hauling a tour's gear between cities overnight. Typical pay $80k.
Talent Buyer: Books the artists who play at a venue or festival, negotiating fees with agents and using ticket sales data to build lineups that sell. Typical pay $75k.
RF Coordinator: Manages wireless microphones and in-ear monitors so signals do not interfere. Typical pay $80k.
Sound System Engineer: Designs and tunes a tour's speaker system so sound is great everywhere. Typical pay $85k.
Concert Stage Manager: Runs the stage at concerts and festivals, keeping changeovers on time. Typical pay $60k.
Tour Freight Coordinator: Ships tons of stage gear, instruments, and sets for world tours by plane, truck, and sea, handling customs so the show is ready each night. Typical pay $65k.
Tour Power Distribution Technician: Connects and runs the huge temporary electrical systems that power concert lights, video walls, and sound, from generators to the stage. Typical pay $72k.
Starter: fastest way in
Backline Technician: Sets up, tunes, and maintains the band's instruments and amps, and fixes problems mid-show. Typical pay $52k.
Guitar Technician: Tunes, restrings, and repairs a guitarist's instruments on tour. Typical pay $52k.
Drum Technician: Sets up, tunes, and maintains a drummer's kit on tour. Typical pay $50k.
Tour Merchandise Manager: Sells and manages t-shirts, posters, and merch at concerts. Typical pay $48k.
Stagehand (Local Crew): Loads in and sets up concerts, shows, and events at a local venue. Typical pay $50k.
Follow Spot Operator: Aims a powerful spotlight that follows performers around the stage. Typical pay $45k.
Backing Vocalist: Sings harmonies behind lead artists on tours, recordings, and TV. Typical pay $45k.
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