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Costume Designers on Pay and Gender Equity Fight: ‘We Are Artisans and We Should Be Respected’
Costume designers are ramping up conversations about pay equity and gender equity with a new movement, Pay Equity Now.
A noticeable wage gap becomes apparent when considering what is often a 60-hour work week: Scale rates for costume designers, who are 87% female, under the IATSE Basic Agreement are approximately 30-65% lower than those of their creative department head counterparts, which are 82-93% male. Wald-Cohain remains optimistic in the quest for pay equity, in a year where IATSE basic agreement contracts begin negotiations in March, She says, “Costume design is powerful and its impact is universal. We hope that by highlighting our tireless work as magicians behind the camera we can ensure our contribution is recognized and compensated fairly and equally to our creative peers in production.”
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