{"id":71616,"date":"2022-07-06T19:20:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/writers-guild-west-members-saw-residuals-increase-amid-declines-in-employment-income-in-2021"},"modified":"2022-07-06T19:20:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:20:52","slug":"writers-guild-west-members-saw-residuals-increase-amid-declines-in-employment-income-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/writers-guild-west-members-saw-residuals-increase-amid-declines-in-employment-income-in-2021","title":{"rendered":"Writers Guild West Members Saw Residuals Increase Amid Declines in Employment, Income in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

The union’s latest annual financial report found that last year nearly half of all residuals flowing to members came from new media.Writers Guild of America, West Michael Buckner\/PMCShare this article on TwitterShare this article on EmailShow additional share optionsEven as employment and income decreased for writers in 2021, the Writers Guild of America West saw an uptick in residuals going to members across film and television.Guild members received an “an all-time high” of $493.6 million in residuals in 2021, representing a 5.4 percent uptick from 2020, according to the WGA West’s latest annual financial report, released on June 29. Overall, the year saw television residuals boosted 4.7 percent and film residuals increase by 6.9 percent. New media was “the largest residual category overall,” according to the Guild, comprising about 45.2 percent of all residuals in 2021, up 8.5 percent from 2020. In television, new media residuals rose 31.7 percent from the previous year and in film they rose 27.1 percent.Overall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The union’s latest annual financial report found that last year nearly half of all residuals flowing to members came from new media. Even as employment and income decreased for writers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,19],"class_list":["post-71616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-economy","tag-entertainment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}