Does anyone have an idea what they are. For on-air and also the business side. I am assuming that if its like here in the US a few sales guys can make a pretty decent living and on the programming side its underpaid and underappreciated though some talents can actually get paid decently here.
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Radio wages in Mexico
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radioman921 said:
DJ's from the union minimum wage, which varies by city and region and is as low as $1.200 a month (around U$S 110 dollars) to Mexico City talk talents making over a million dollars US a year. Mexico City is nearly as big a radio market as LA, with larger stations having rates for 30's of $6.000 to $12.000 a spot ($500 to $1100 US dollars). A PD in Mexico City can make $5.000.000,00 a year, around half a million, for a good station, and small market PDs may make the eqivalent of $200 to $250 US a month. Sellers can make very decent money in a couple of cities, but remember that in the big markets, there is essentially no local direct business so a station might only have 3 or 4 sellers total.
The star PDs are amazingly well paid and respected, and treated as stars.
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So, interested in Big mexican market radio I see?lugnuts6 said:
My next question would be, what is the business environment in Mexico as far as Sales and Management. What would be different from here in the States...
radioman921 said:
Managers and GSMs make far less in direct pay than PD's. In fact, in Mexico, PD's are called "Artisitic Directors" and treated like the producers on the TV soap operas... like stars. Managers, though, have the benefit of ownership.
Sales departments are much smaller in the large markets, as nearly 100% of business is agency and very transactional. Managers used to be required to be Mexican citizens by birth, but that is no longer true. Most managers are also the owner or part of the ownership family; even with Clear Channel's investment in Grupo Acir (run by the Ibarra family), all groups are family run, even publicly traded GRC. It's not uncommon to see several generations of a family at a station, such as GRC with three generations of Aguirres and Radio Fórmula with three generations of Azcárragas (Rogerio, not Emilio... cousins).
mimo said:
You would have to have a work permit and visa, generally obtained by employer request and requiring both "influence" and need. This would mean that the person has to have some special skills and documentable experience and standing in their career field outside Mexico.
What that means is that a company would have to feel that a non-Mexican can contribute significantly. In the area of entertainment, there have been any number of foreign nationals "on camera" in TV as show hosts, actors and actresses in soap operas, etc. This is because so much foreign exchange is generated by selling TV shows and novelas outside Mexico.
In radio, there are far fewer cases. One early example was the staff of XEVIP, and English langauge station in AM and FM encarnations, now long gone. The airstaff was mostly non-Mexican. This was approved in the era when Mexico was in rapid industrial development, and many managers, engineers, etc., were non-Mexican. Today, that is not the case.
Today, a good number of the management staffers of Televisa Radio are non-Mexican as the group is 50% owned by a Spanish company, Grupo PRISA. There are isolated cases of other exceptions; I was allowed to intern at what is now GRC in the early 60's and have done a few other things there over the years, but never fulltime (although I have been offered a couple of opportunities).
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Would be interesting...
lugnuts6 said:
Good luck breaking in. You also have to deal with SIRT, the Union, which is not very keen on foreigners. Not even for Mexicans who've worked in U.S. radio and want to return. And unless you have an immediate family member to sponsor you, you must prove that you have an offer that will give you more than the equivalent of $12,000 pesos a month. That's the new law, in order to get an FM-3 (green card). Unless you are in the top 3 markets in Mexico (D.F., Monterrey, Guadalajara), that's a hard figure to earn. I applied for a job with ACIR, in a medium market, and they only offered 8,000 pesos a month, and they complained about that! But if you like Mexico for the culture and the people, that's a good reason to come. Just don't expect to get rich.
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