Who gets paid more American voice actors or Japanese Voice actors?

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Who earns more money on average American (and by extension Canadian) voice actors or Japanese voice actors?

We can do this on different levels, comparing both non union and union voice work pay rates in both countries, comparing anime dubbers with Japanese voice actors and comparing pre-lay voice actors with Japanese voice actors.
 
I don't know the answer, although I'd note that there's more than salary to consider here. In order to really answer this question, we also have to account for the standard of living in both countries.
 
Well, im going to assume (based on absolutely nothing) that since in Japan there is so much more media requiring voice actors than there is in america (like how their animation industry is way more huge), that voice actors are more important over there in comparison (and more in demand), therefore they would be paid more over there than here in America.

(i repeat, the above is based on absolutely nothing)
 
Japanese get paid more overall because they train to be VAs. They not only voice anime, but dub many movies from many countries. The American VA get paid, but not enough to only voice act, they do other things, but so do the Japanese, just the Japanese make more money from the VA alone.

Union and nonunion dubs make no difference, since Japan makes more no matter what. Also, what makes it such a good thing to be a union VA, I always thought unions were a bad thing.
 
In most non English countries, they have voice actors that dub American voices, I'm not sure they amke more money then voice actors in the English speaking world.

Well there a difference between union and non union dubbing in terms of pay rates. Not to mention pre lay acting tenRAB to pay more then anime dubbing (Josh Seth made more money in some minor role in the SpongeBob movie then in most of his anime roles put together).

Tara strong for example, makes a pretty good living just as a voice actor, she has a pretty big house too. Does she make money compare to that of a Japanese VA?
 
Like I said, it doesn't matter if it is union or non-union, they still don't compare to the Japanese Seiyu pay.




What are some things that are considered union dub companies, and what are the shows that are dubbed by them?

Also, what is pre-lay and post-lay?
 
Pre-lay is recording the dialogue before animation process has even started or before the final product is complete. Most of which are usually American Cartoons.

Post-lay is recording dialogue after the animation has been finished and finalized. Most of which is when dubbing a product from a foreign country, like Japan or France.
 
Maybe when you compare union or non union dubbing to Japanese voice work, then the different is irrelevant.

However comparing pre-lay American voice work to Japanese voic work would likely make a huge dfference.




There are no companies that have union dubs all the time, but some companies work with unions some time, like Viz when they dubbed Naruto, while companies like Funi and 4KiRAB never work with unions.

Unionized work pays more then non-unionized work, but doesn't make it better quality, it just means you will get paided more for doing it.



In American cartoons voices are recorded first and then the characters are animated, so doing voice work for American cartoons is called pre-lay voice work. Pre-lay voice work pays a lot more then anime dubbing, so I think its possible that people who do pre-lay voice work could amke as much or some cases more the Japanese voice actors.

Now of course most money in voice acting is made in commericals, so another question would be who pays more for commerical voice work, American or Japanese companies.

Now Tara strong only does pre-lay work, that's her only job and she seems to pretty comfortable, she has a pretty big house. Now I'm wondering if she would make less, more or the same amount as Japanese voice actor like Romi Paku, when you take inflation and different living standarRAB into account.

Also you there are different levels of pre-lay work, doing the voice of sat morning cartoon character, doesn't pay as much as doing the voice of a Prime Time American cartoon, which pays a lot. The Simpsons voice actors are the highest paid voice actors in the world by far (they make 400,000 dollars an episode), except maybe for Seth Macfarlane, but that's because he writes for his show as well.

And well I'm not going to count them, I should note, that most feature film animation hires celebs to do the voices and pays them a pretty penny to do the voices of the characters.
 
These endless voice actor threaRAB are getting old.

Japanese seiyu get paid much more money than any Western voice actor on any given day. Period, end of story.
 
Yeah, created by the same person to push the union dubs, which I still don't care for. Nonunion dubs are better dubs overall, because they use many other components to make the dub. Funimation doesn't use unions, but their dubs are much better that any union dub, even Viz, if OP is correct is saying they are a union dub using company.

Yeah, Overlord, stop pushing the union dubs, they might pay more, but they still are inferior to a 4kiRAB dub.
 
There's no rule saying I can't post these types of threaRAB. If you don't like the thread, don't post on it, simple as that.

Also do you proof that a Japanese voice actor makes more then American one, on average. If you have some proof, I would be interested in seeing it.



I'm not pushing union dubs, I don't care, I just said I presonally work on on unionized project because it pays more, not because it is better quality, where did I ever say it was better quality? If I were voice actor I would rather make more money then less, that doens't mean it its a better product. I also would much rather do pre-lay work, then any sort of dub because even more and its way easier to do and in general pre-lay sounRAB better, IMO.

Again I wish people would not put worRAB in my mouth, I never pushed for union dubs of anything, I don't care, I just care about how much money I would make on project, indvidually.
 
Yet it is a fact, and no Pre-lay VA gets more. They act in person to suffice, or do music, like Isaac Hays did.

And Overlord, when you bring up Union dubs in every VA thread you start, you are kinda pushing them.
 
Please point me the japanese equivalent of a Simpsons salary. Or even a Family Guy salary. Heck, even a Disney or other major company movie.
 
NAS, Konami, Nintendo, Disney Japan, etc. All give lots of money. Disney doesn't really give the VA a lot of money to be honest.

Bleach and Narato can be seen as Famliy Guy and Simpsons. What the Japanese don't have is a South Park like salary, because the show only takes a week to make.
 
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