Music Supervisor

Description: Music supervisors handle the process of choosing, negotiating, and incorporating pieces of music into visual media, while acting as a liaison between the creative and business ends.

Knowledge Required: Music theory, music interpretation, composition, conducting, performing, business and finance

Skills:  Musicians must be knowledgeable about a broad range of musical styles. Having a broader range of interest, knowledge, and training can help expand employment opportunities and musical abilities.

Career Path: Musicians need extensive and prolonged training and practice to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to interpret music at a professional level.

Best Cities for this job: LA, New York City, San Francisco

Median Annual Income: National: $41,270 CA: $71,190

Future Growth: The Bureau of Labor Statistic predicts a 14 percent growth in employment between 2008 and 2018.

From the field: "Expose yourself to those things. If you want to be a surfer, you got to go to the waves. You gotta go to where the people are doing what you want to do." - Rickey Minor, Music Supervisor, American Idol