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What choreographers make while working

Established

$85,000

Starting out

$46,000

In demand

$146,000

Job Bank's national median is $41.03 an hour, about $85,000 a year at full-time hours. Very few choreographers bill full-time hours. Work comes as projects with a creation fee, so the honest reading is that the rate is good and the number of weeks is the problem.