New workers start around £10,978.35. Normal pay is £29,268 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £54,733.77.
About this career
- Plays pre-recorded music at nightclubs, discotheques, and private functions.
- Conducts interviews and prepares reports for news broadcasts, current affairs programmes and documentaries.
- Introduces and presents radio and television programmes, reads news bulletins and makes announcements.
- Trains animals to perform entertaining routines and may perform with them.
- Performs singing, comedy, acrobatic, illusion and conjuring routines.
- Assumes character created by a playwright or author and communicates this to an audience.
- Studies script; play or book and prepares and rehearses interpretation.
Skills Employers Are Looking For
- Qualification: Diploma, Extended Diploma
- Awarding body: Business & Technology Education Council (BTEC)
