William Morris Endeavor has responded to the #PayUpHollywood initiative by joining other large talent agencies in raising compensation for their assistants. The starting salary for assistants will go from $15 an hour — the legal minimum wage in New York City — to $18 an hour (or $37,440 annually). More importantly, given that almost no assistant can perform the expected duties in a standard work week, agency assistants are eligible for 10 hours of overtime (at time and a half, under the law), without pre-approval from supervisors. (That’s up to $270 a week, or as much as $13,500 across 50 […]
