I've been thinking a lot lately about orchestra salaries. I don't think I knew how much you could actually get paid just for being in an orchestra. Cincinnati base salary STARTS at $91,000 for a 52-week season. Chicago? Almost $150,000. It's amazing to me that I could get paid more than my parents make combined just for doing my "hobby." I do have to give myself a reality check from time to time though...there's no way I'm going to hop right into one of these orchestras after school. It's going to take time and lots of work. I'll probably have to pull myself up a ladder...start with a lower-tiered orchestra and move up the rungs of prestige to a Cincinnati or Chicago. But hey, it's a pretty sweet deal to make six digits doing what you love.
I'm hopefully going to take a couple auditions this fall to get my feet wet. Lexington is having sub auditions and rumor has it Dayton will announce a section opening. Kentucky would be nice, but I don't know if there's going to be an opening.
I decided that I would really like to play in Cincinnati and live downtown, either in a condo in the gateway quarters or an apartment in the Banks. Yeah, cause I could totally afford to drop $1000 a month since I'd be making bank in the Symphony!
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