Animation and motion picture career salaries often depend highly upon the types of projects being worked on. Camera operators, for instance, earn an average of about $41,000, with the middle 50 percent earning between $29,000 and $60,000. Audio and video equipment technicians earn just over $38,000, while sound engineers earn a median wage of $47,000 per year. Animators and multimedia artists earn an average of around $64,000. Television and movie producers earn also around $64,000 -- though obviously, the most successful producers earn much, much more than this. Likewise, the median hourly salary for actors and actresses is about $17 an hour (with those in performing arts companies earning less at about $14 an hour, and those in motion pictures earning much more at closer to $30 an hour). However, we've all read about the incredible salaries of the most famous movie and television stars, so the sky is the limit in terms of earning potential for actors if you're talented -- and lucky -- enough