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What choreographers make
Median
$55,310
Bottom tenth
$34,090
Top tenth
$138,630
The national median is $55,310 a year, the bottom tenth earn $34,090 or less and the top tenth $138,630 or more (2025 federal wage survey). Read those numbers carefully: most of this work is paid by the project or by the hour, and full-time all-year choreography work is rare. The people earning the median usually stitch it together from three or four sources.