Il entertainment sector is certainly among those who have most discounted the effects of the pandemic: almost 70 thousand less. In 2020, only 261 show workers had at least one paid day. Not better for sport, which with a contribution paid in 2020 resulted in only 8 thousand. This is what emerged fromInps 2021 Management Observatory.
In detail, the number of workers in the entertainment industry with at least one paid day was equal to 261.799, 21% less than in 2019. And those who worked had an average annual salary of 10.492 € and an average annual number of 91 paid days.
This demonstrates that the very difficult economic situation has firstly caused a strong selection with a high percentage of personnel excluded from employment and, secondly, the contraction of days and wages of those who were in any case able to work, despite all the limitations.
From the point of view of the individual professional groups, it emerges that the most affected were conductors e animators, having a 40% decrease. After them, the music industry who registered a decrease over 30% of the workers. The group of self-employed workers was particularly affected, for whom the average salary in 2020 practically halved compared to the pre-Covid year.
While the group of Actors continues to be the most numerous with 61.706 employed (23,6% of the total), a group in which the share of the category of "Generics and special extras" is significant, which in 2020 had 37.088 workers (mostly concentrated in Lazio with 29.013 workers). Compared to 2019, the weight of the Actors group decreased by almost 2 points, losing around 22.500 units. The weight of the groups of Workers of sports facilities and clubs is growing (13,1% against 11,1% in 2019) and White Collars (12,6% against 10,9% in 2019).
Instead, according to the results of the Observatory, the distribution of show business workers by geographical area of work shows that the 39,8% work in the central regions, to follow the Northwest with 26,7%, South and Islands with 17,0% and Northeast with 16,5%.
Very different are the wage levels across regions: in the North-West, workers in 2020 received almost 35% more (about 14 thousand euros) than the national average, in the Center the average wages are in line with the national figure, finally in the other areas the wages are decidedly inferior.
In terms of average wages, the Central and North-West regions were less affected by the pandemic impact: stable for workers in the North-West and increased by 1,6% for workers in the Centre; this also applies to average paid days (-5,8% in the North-West and -3,7% in the Centre).
As far as the professional sportsmen, there were 8.111 those with at least one contribution paid in 2020; 92,1% is made up of members of the Football Federation. Overall there was a 1,4% increase of the number of workers compared to the previous year, while the sportsmen of the other federations show a decrease of -4,3%.
Ultimately, at least on an annual basis, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have been very marginal for professional sportsmen, unlike sports clubs which have discounted the negative financial effects due to the closure to the public sports facilities and the conduct of sporting events strictly behind closed doors.
Territorially, more than half of professional sportsmen work in the North (55,1%). In 2020, the modal wage class of professional sports workers is between 10 and up to 50 euros with 40,4%. The professionals of the Football Federation mainly belong to the salary category over 700 euros and are generally athletes (81,3%).
Finally, the average annual number of professional sports workers was 5.409, a decrease of 6,6% compared to 2019. The distribution by month and by Sports Federation shows uniform trends both with reference to the sportsmen of the football federation and for athletes from other federations.
Analyzing the data by month we observe a consistent decline in the months of April and May and then in December, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The decline in professional sportsmen is greater summer months of July and August during the closing periods of the sports seasons.
