Greetings all,
I've been working as a tech at a mid-sized road house for the past few months and am starting to look at moving into stage management. I'm starting to pick up small SM gigs of the community/amateur/semi-pro variety and am looking towards starting to pick up my Apprentice SM credits (its a Canadian thing) in the next 6-12 months. To get a better sense of the lay of the land, I've been digging through old E-Drive SM postings when I came across something this morning that stuck out at me. An Apprentice SM posting specifically mentioned a stipend ($1100 for a 3.5 week contract). I found this odd because no other postings made any mention of wages, salary, or stipends. So my questions are these:
Are CAEA Apprentice SMs paid? If so, what are the general ballparks? If you've been a CAEA Apprentice, what were your experiences?
As an apprentice, I wasn't expecting to be well paid by any stretch of the imagination. But something more than nothing is fairly key to someone paying student loans, etc.
Thanks in advance,
Ted