> Wow, I didn't know the Writer's Guild and Actor's Guild in Hollywood had seniority-based positions. The Writer’s Guild doesn’t have seniority based positions

> Wow, I didn't know the Writer's Guild and Actor's Guild in Hollywood had seniority-based positions. The Writer’s Guild doesn’t have seniority based positions but it does have seniority based pay. That’s why after you get enough years experience in a writer’s room for tv shows work starts to dry up unless you become a show runner. So after ten or fifteen years of working in tv you have to do something else for many years until your awesome pension kicks in. The Actor’s Guild does work very hard to dualise acting, black listing anyone who works with non-members. The median member of the SAG doesn’t make much off it but the minimum rates the SAG negotiates mean if you have steady work you’re making a solid living. Without them many more people would be actors and fewer would make decent money at it.