Equity Publishes Hiring Bias and Wage Gap Report on Theatre in 2022 and 2023

Actors’ Equity Association has published its latest biennial Hiring Bias and Wage Gap in Theatre Report, documenting the years 2022 and 2023. This document examines employment opportunity and average salaries for actors and stage managers working on Equity contracts across the country. As with previous years, this report found that the industry is making gradual progress towards diversity and equity in union jobs for stage managers and actors.

Equity has been tracking this data since 2013, and this is the fifth iteration of this report. This year’s report is the first to cover two years of data, as the union intends to do moving forward to give more time for trends to emerge. While Equity cannot legally tell employers whom to hire, Equity leadership hopes that this report will help move the needle and bring to light current progress and challenges in the industry.

“Change doesn’t happen organically,” said Actors’ Equity Association President Brooke Shields. “The whole reason Equity began sharing this data was to bring awareness of existing disparities to the people who make decisions about what shows to stage, who to hire for them and how much to pay those workers.” Read more here.