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What choreographers make

Typical

$55,310

Studio and small company

$34,090

Broadway, film, top companies

$138,630

The national median is $55,310 a year, and the bottom tenth are near $34,090. 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.