Around this time every year, Televisual do a survery to work out what salaries and day rates people get working in the television industry in the UK. Here are the results for this year's survery for camera operators: These salaries strike me as pretty low, so it is worth considering the same Televisual survey from the previous year.

The results for these in were as follows: The main variables are the kind of work you do, and the kit you own. A busy DOP working on commercials is obviously going to earn a lot more than a cameraman just starting out, shooting small corporate jobs.

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Working as an owner operator with kit, is more like running a small business, with larger risks and more variable earnings. If you make the right decisions and buy the right kit, you are likely to make far more than the average OB or studio cameraman whose day rate can only go so high.

Equally, make the wrong decisions and buy kit that you can't get on jobs and you could even make a loss.

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