Professional means different things to different people in different contexts. A future MU agreement would seek to recommend rates for:
- The full-time musician earning their entire living from performing
- The part-time musician earning part of their living from performing (e.g. music teacher or part-time worker in music industry)
But ‘professional’ might also encompass – and attract varying levels of payment for
- The professionally trained musician who now has a full-time job doing something else (e.g. full-time music teacher, working in other role in music industry, became an accountant instead)
- The full time music or peripatetic teacher who does not perform professionally but likes to still play, and does so in an amateur orchestra
- The amateur who has come up through the ranks and plays/sings/conducts well enough to be in demand
- The recent music college graduate who is trying to build up a career
- The current (pre) music college student trying to build up experience.
Central range – where this is referenced, we have based this initially on 60% of respondents to a particular question; however, because in many cases so many answers are the same either side of the central range, this means the central range does vary from question to question, and is often much larger than 60%, but it is always at least 60% of respondents.
