The country music industry is very cutthroat. The road to establishing your name and a career is beyond challenging, and you’ll spend years – some even wait decades – being nameless working songs after songs in a studio before you get your big break. And that is if you get lucky to catch one. (We all know some just end up waiting for nothing.)
But if you do, it can be very lucrative and earn you hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in a year or maybe in just a few months. And the best part in all of this is you get to do the one thing you like most every day.
According to the national estimate done by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published in May 2021, musicians and singers* enjoy a mean hourly wage of $41.46. But Everhour blog noted that while the full-time working week is still set at 40 hours as per US labor law, the average in the world has shrunk to 35.
And so, with an average working week of 35 hours or 1,820 hours in a year (down from the 2,080 working hours reported in previous years), the average yearly compensation for musicians and singers is estimated at around $75,457.20. But of course, the reality is that there are still those who live in extremes. Musicians and singers in the 10th percentile only earn $11.47 per hour (around $21,000 per year), while those in the 90th percentile can earn as much as $88.77 an hour or around $162,000 in a year.
And for those who only do this part-time only, the...
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