New workers start around £10,978.35. Normal pay is £29,268 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £54,733.77.

About this career

• Plays pre-recorded music at nightclubs, discotheques, and private functions.
• Conducts interviews and prepares reports for news broadcasts, current affairs programmes and documentaries.
• Introduces and presents radio and television programmes, reads news bulletins and makes announcements.
• Trains animals to perform entertaining routines and may perform with them.
• Performs singing, comedy, acrobatic, illusion and conjuring routines.
• Assumes character created by a playwright or author and communicates this to an audience.
• Studies script; play or book and prepares and rehearses interpretation.

Skills Employers Are Looking For

• Qualification: Diploma, Extended Diploma
• Awarding body: Business & Technology Education Council (BTEC)