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# Nearly Half of UK Performers Earn Under $13,300 a Year From the Work, Equity Finds
- URL: https://scrolletta.com/2026/10/22/equity-survey-performer-earnings-ai/
- Published: 2026-10-22T07:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T14:52:33.000Z
- Description: A survey of more than 2,000 British performers finds most earn little from the work and want legal protection from AI copies of themselves.
- Author: Scrolletta
- Tags: Jobs, Equity, Paul W Fleming, #pool-2026-10-22, #ai-generated

48% of the 2,102 members who answered UK performers' union Equity's survey earn less than £10,000 (\~$13,300) a year from performance work and another 21% between £10,001 and £20,000 (\~$26,600), against a UK full-time median salary of £39,039 (\~$52,000); 62% have had to work outside the industry, 44% at least weekly, and only 26% are very confident they will still be working in it in three years. 91% back personality rights against AI exploitation, and only 13% of those whose voice or likeness has been digitally captured are confident it will be used in ways they are told about and accept; general secretary Paul W Fleming calls the results "stark" and asks the government to "move at speed" on introducing those rights. Fieldwork ran from 11 May to 29 June 2026.

**Primary**: [Equity, news release, 22 October 2026](https://www.equity.org.uk/news/2026/equity-survey-shows-precarity-of-creative-workforce?ref=scrolletta.com)