North Jersey.com:  “At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stagehand salary and benefits package is $290,000 a year.  To repeat, that is the average compensation of all the workers who move musicians’ chairs into place and hang lights, not the pay of the top five. . . . How to account for all this munificence? The power of a union, Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.”

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