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Fees and Wages

There are a variety of situations in which artists and artworkers are asked to stipulate payments for either their goods or services. In Australia visual artists and craftspeople are rarely covered by wage-setting instruments such as awards because they are not generally classified as employees.

NAVA has developed a series of ‘benchmark’ minimum fees that artists or artworkers can use when negotiating fees and wages or when determining a labour component for a grant application, setting an exhibition loan fee or tendering for a project.

Fees and Wages. Chapter 5 of the NAVA Code of Practice, 2nd edition, 2004.
ISBN 0 9751929 0 6.

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Artists’ Scales of Fees and Wages. Published by NAVA, 16 pages, 2004 edition.
Note: this information replicates Chapter 5 of the NAVA Code of Practice.

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