20 Ways Artists Make Money, Expenses, Taxes, Income

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  @PalomaMcClain · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  Your whole income of $101,251.75 doesn't get taxed at 24% btw! Only the amount between $89,075-$170,050 gets taxed at 24%. Same way for all the lower tax brackets! You progressively pay different rates at the different bracket ranges of your total income. So you only pay 10% of your first $10,275, then only 12% of the amount between $10,275-$41,775 and so on. It's a common misunderstanding. If you take the standard deduction ($14,600 in 2024 for single filers) instead of itemized, you subtract that from your total taxable income as well. :)

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  @Cronee333 · 6 months ago

  The whole world consumes media CONSTANTLY, yet the people who create media are disrespected, underpaid and easily replaced..... make it make sense.....

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  @us3rnam3number · 1 year ago

  "if you hate yourself and want to take commissions" ........as some who pretty much only does commissions for a living, can confirm i do indeed hate myself lol

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  @-TSApril- · 1 year ago

  Brother being an artist is getting scarier and scarier each year.

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  @white_tulip2189 · 1 year ago

  The frog opening its mouth and shaking scares me but i stay to support you 😭

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• ED

  @edualv320 · 1 year ago

  I NEED to upgrade my art skills to be able to do half of this stuff

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  @KaterynaM_UA · 1 year ago

  My income and mental health was never better than it was when I was working fulltime in a gamedev studio. Young artists doing themselves a huge disservice dismissing that path. If you don't have a huge social media following, that's your best chance in earning a living. Just don't look at AAA companies, the easy in and nice wages are are in mobile! The more technical/UI/boring it is, the lower the competition!

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  @miqueltoast · 1 year ago

  i say this with absolutely no shade, but your food expenses alone are more than my TOTAL yearly income in Brazil. wild!! 😭thanks for the video as always!!

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  @damienvirgil6081 · 3 months ago

  I got fired from my 9to5 advertising art job thanks to AI, so now i'm at a crossroads and am not sure what to do with my art anc my life.

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• LA

  @labdjcxn3xy · 1 year ago

  Woahhh 40% increase in affiliates since the honey scandal dropped? That company is truly a parasite on this earth

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  @myo26812 · 1 year ago

  "i don't like 9 to 5 anyway and that's why I'm here" I relate so much to this and hope that before graduate I'm able to find my way and avoid 9-5 job!

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  @yazuki-wolf · 1 year ago

  I've been working in game studios for about 10 years now, and I'd say that even if you DO want to work in a studio, be warned. It's not necessarily the safer option any more. I know for me I thought a studio gig would be more secure than trying to build something on my own, but the truth is a studio can drop you at any moment, and with all the NDA's and contract restrictions on working outside of your contracted work you may very well be left back at square one, while by contrast slowly building multiple in come streams can be that safety net you need when things get tough.

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