Summary

The Pay Transparency Project (PTP) is a community-driven database that offers nonfiction video professionals timely insight into constantly evolving hiring trends and pay parity practices. Additionally, it serves as a tracking tool for structural industry shifts and recommendations. This grassroots initiative grew out of an urgent desire by our collective communities to move the documentary and nonfiction video fields towards greater equity, justice, inclusion, and transparency.

PTP is intended to benefit all professional nonfiction video storytellers, from early-career individuals to industry veterans who may be transitioning from full-time employment to freelance work. Staff department heads and hiring executives looking to formalize and strengthen standards across the field are also encouraged to contribute and use PTP, to promote a more equitable and sustainable industry for all.