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Video Production Jobs in NYC

Video production in New York City is at one of its highest points in history. Television production crews are shooting around the city at an unprecedented rate, partly fueled by NYC's generous tax incentives for filmmakers. As a result, there are more video production jobs available in the city than any time in recent memory. Video production in NYC can take many forms. Many professionals in this field write, direct, produce, and edit their own content. They may work for news organizations, such as The New York Times, or shoot documentaries for independent film production companies, or become involved with online web series or TV series.

Some of the top cities for finding jobs in video production tend to be Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, and Miami. You could build a successful career in video production in any one of these cities. However, out of those cities, NYC ranks second in terms of the total number of video production jobs available and the average level of salaries in the field. Among those cities, about 24% of all video production jobs are located in NYC.

Entry-level video production jobs may have you working on online web series, documentaries, news reports, or national broadcasts. Many have broken into this field working on set as a production assistant or assistant camera operator. Others have started out as editors for media productions. Still others enter the industry as jacks-of-all-trades, and take jobs in writing, editing, or producing, depending on which jobs are in greatest supply at the time.

In NYC, the most popular video production jobs are Set Designers, Cinematographers, Production Assistants, Writers, Editors, Directors, and Producers.

The top ranked schools in NYC with programs and degrees in video production are New York University (NYU, $49,962 per year, out-of-state), Colombia University ($49,300 per year, out-of-state), and Syracuse University ($41,794 per year, out-of-state), according to rankings published by the Hollywood Reporter and Hack College in 2016.

According to Glassdoor, some of the highest-rated video production companies in NYC include The New York Times, Huffington Post, CNN Network, Turner Broadcasting, Associated Press, and Buzzfeed.

Professionals working in video production in NYC also tend to work in the following industries, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Corporate Videos/Presentations, Marketing, Advertising, Blog or Vlog Production, Technology-Media Companies, Design.

The following are estimates of salaries and wages for video production jobs in NYC, which were compiled from Salary.com, Glassdoor, and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Cinematographers and Photographers - $87,000 per year, or $41.83 per hour

Reporter I - $39,000 per year, or $18.75 per hour

Reporter II - $45,000 per year, or $21.63 per hour

Broadcast Technicians - $53,000 per year, or $25.48 per hour

Editors - $80,000 per year, or $38.46 per hour

Senior Videographers - $70,000 per year, or $33.65 per hour

Creative Managers - $96,000 per year, or $46.15 per hour

Set Designers - $59,000 per year, or $28.37 per hour

Producer and Directors - $113,000 per year, or $54.33 per hour


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