Money · 1 of 5
What dancers make while working
Median
$69,000
Lower end
$42,000
Upper end
$104,000
Job Bank's national median is $32.94 an hour, about $69,000 a year at 40 hours a week. The lower and upper ends are Job Bank's low and high wages for everyone in the group, $20.10 and $50 an hour. Treat that as the rate, not the year. Many dance contracts run for a season rather than a full year, so real yearly earnings usually land below the figure, and the people counted here are the ones who got contracts at all.