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In Vietnam, the demand for professional event planners has increased in recent years, focusing on weddings and conferences. If you have a professional degree in services, tourism, restaurants - hotels, you can easily apply for a job and get a good salary. In the event industry, there is a job that is so popular in the event industry in the world but in Vietnam, it is still quite new and strange to many people.
A stagehand is a person who works behind the scenes or behind the scenes of film studios (film or television) or event organizers. Their work includes stage staging, sound and lighting design, props preparation and special effects for stage and events.
More specifically, they install and dismantle the equipment, helping the engineering department arrange, choreograph and move the perspective of the stage, the interior, and the heavy equipment in the show. And close the stage curtain, operate the technical equipment, clean up, clean the stage & the area behind the stage.
The heroes behind the stage-stagehands/Ph.pinterest.com
Salaries of event organizers vary widely. Depending on the specific role and work experience, the size of the company as well as the type of stagehand event that will receive the corresponding salary paid according to the number of events you participate in work.
As of June 2020, the average annual salary of a stagehand at United State is approximately 30,730 dollars per year (712 million VND). The average stagehand’s salary can also range from 24,500 dollars per year (567 million VND) to 35,500 dollars per year (822 million VND).
At the United State, the stagehand’s salary starts at 19,500 dollars per year (about 450 million VND) for stagehands with experience from 1 to 2 years. In Vietnam, the starting salary of a stagehand is about 4 million VND - 6 million VND per month, equivalent to most other services.
When working in the event industry, you may not have a high income at first, but the total income will increase with your seniority and the number of events you support and organize successfully.
In the US, with 4 to 5 years of work experience based on the number of events you organize successfully, the stagehand’s salary can be up to 47,000 dollars per year (over 1 billion VND).
When doing a stagehand in Vietnam, the salary from 4 million VND to 6 million VND can be up to 8 - 10 million after 2, 3 years of work and even 20 million VND after about 5 years.
This is a pretty attractive salary and is increasingly attracting more young people to this profession.
Currently, in Vietnam, stagehand is not a strong enough career to become a separate branch in the event industry. Therefore, you will have few real opportunities to gain experience and improve your skills when working at the city theatre or event hosting companies. However, if you work hard and search, you will still have the opportunity to experience, improve and do your favourite job.
The increasingly globalized business nature will create opportunities for event managers to look for job opportunities abroad. In case you want to work in another country, you need to have good foreign language skills and professional qualification.
To become a talented and professional stagehand, you need to have some required elements such as:
Good physical ability to transport equipment and flexible stage props / Ph.thesouthern.com
Our article gave detailed information about the stagehand job and the basic stagehand’s salary. We hope this article will be helpful and pleasing to you.
