Studio Styles announces Culture Pay Survey, a survey aimed at understanding the pay landscape in Nigeria’s cultural industry
According to Abba, the survey—which is open to culture workers who are Nigerian residents—is their attempt to gather data to push for fair pay and highlight the true costs of cultural work.
Studio Styles, a studio incubating projects that enrich Nigeria’s culture industry as a public good, has announced the Culture Pay Survey, an anonymous survey aimed at understanding the pay landscape in Nigeria’s cultural industry.
The survey, which is led by Immaculata Abba and a group of volunteers—Elizabeth Akpan, Kachi Eloka, Edikan U, Ama B, and Princess Briggs—wants to “gather data to help us collectively move towards fair pay and reveal the real costs of cultural work.”
A culture worker, according to the group, is anyone whose work entails exploring, reflecting or preserving our ways of life, our stories, and our ideas. “Think- people in Film/TV, Music, Book & Magazine Publishing, Podcasting and Radio, Journalism, Performing Arts (Theatre, Dance, Comedy, Spoken Word), Visual Arts (Painting, Sculpture, Installation, Photography,), Fashion, Architecture, Humanities Research, Libraries, Museums, Archives, and Heritage Sites, Cultural Policy and Organising, Web-based Arts and some aspects of the creator economy,” Abba, an artist, writer and researcher, shared.
“The survey has three short parts: what you do, how much you earn, how much you need.”
As an extra incentive for filling the survey, the group says respondents “stand a chance to win a no-strings-attached 500,000 Naira project grant or a gift card for Yoga/Pilates/Dance fitness classes at Hearts Wellness Studio.”
To enter the giveaway, respondents will submit their email and a sentence about their project in a separate link at the end of the survey.
“The grant incentive is funded out-of-pocket among us, and an anonymous charitable donor,” the statement notes.
Survey Closes: March 25, 2025
What will be the outcome? The survey results will be published online and accessible for free, accompanied by a downloadable pdf report (on the Studio Styles website and across other media channels).
The release target is April 2025.
Thank you so much for sharing this! Didn't see it earlier.