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Animators · aggregate-only

Animator economicsindustry-wide

What it looks like to make anime, when you total up the sample. Never per-studio, never per-animator — those breakdowns are not collected, not stored, and not derivable.

All figures inferred from public industry surveys

Why aggregate-only

Animators are not data here. Every figure on this page is an aggregate across a voluntary-disclosure sample. There is no per- animator row, no per-studio row narrow enough to identify anyone, and no path to ever build one. The minimum sample size required to publish a breakdown is never met by design.

The numbersfolded across the sample

4 figures · 1 live
  • Episode rate, key animation
    ￥270,000
    p25medianp75
    ￥180,000 – ￥410,000
    inferredJAniCA 2019 survey, key-animator unit rate.
  • Weekly hours worked
    55 h
    p25medianp75
    45 – 70 h (IQR)
    inferredNAFCA 2023 working-hours survey.
  • Unionized share
    9 %
    • Unionized share9% / 100%
    of reporting sample
    inferredJAniCA 2019 union-membership figure.
  • Sample size
    382
    2022-01-01 → 2024-12-31
    knownAggregated across the two cited industry surveys.

What the pills meanthree states

Provenance
  • knownLive from the substrate. Sample-floor cleared, confirmable against a primary source.
  • inferredPieced together from public industry surveys. Cited beside the figure.
  • unknownWe don’t know, and we’re saying so. A first-class state, not a guess.

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