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Hollywood’s ‘White Collar’ Job Offerings Have Jumped in the Last 10 Years as ‘Blue Collar’ Work Decreases, New Study Finds
Hollywood has got more demand for knowledge-intensive, "white collar" occupations than it did just 10 years ago amid a drop in the number of manual, "blue collar" jobs in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles
Per the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy, “‘Die Another Day’ – Hollywood Transformed in the Streaming Era,” “white collar” knowledge workers are defined as those “primarily paid for generating ideas, performing analyses or creating artistic content,” while “blue collar” manual workers have occupations across the entertainment industry in areas including transportation, cleaning and grounds keeping, and construction. The study found that creatives and managers, who fall into the knowledge worker category, accounted for 59% of total jobs in Greater Entertainment in 2013, which had grown to 66% in 2022. The study notes these changes were already on the rise before the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Hollywood union strikes of 2023, speaking to a longer tail shift in the entertainment business.
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