SERA00 Regimen: Official Member

Hey everyone!

This is the last post in the SERA00 Regimen series, so if you haven't read the first three, read those first. So here is the last but not by far the least!

OFFICIAL MEMBER

In the previous post I outlined the basic requirements for promotion to official member so I won't repeat myself here.

So, what is different from life as a 00 rank? There are a couple main differences. 

1.  Training category is abolished. You're left with vocals, dancing, and academics. If you're done school, academics includes foreign languages studies as well. Don't think your schedule has more space; free time is usually packed with practicing, practicing with your team, practicing with everyone for an upcoming event, etc.

2. You don't perform everyday at the theatre anymore. Now you have much more work to do; appearing on TV, filming and shooting dramas, performing and promoting here and there.

3. You get paid. Yep, so let's continue with last post's salary discussion. Now that you're an official member, you have a base salary. Your living fees are still covered by SERA00. The salaries differ by rank.

The real difference in salaries is due to the extra money on top of your base salary earned through performances and appearances, etc. 

Teams generally perform 2 or 3 times a week at the theatre.

That's basically all the money directly doled out by SERA00. Then management collects revenue from commercials, appearances, concerts, filming, and doles out pay to the respective members who participated. I can't really state the amounts we get from commercial deals and what not because those are kind of private contracts, but the super popular A ranks like Sassan and Luna can earn an excess of 350k a year from SERA00 related activities alone. 

I know you guys are thinking that for someone as popular as Sassan, her salary is extraordinarily low compared to other North American artists who rake in millions a year.

But the truth is, we do make millions a year. In fact, many millions. If we release one single every two months and sell them for twenty, and each time we reach at least one million sales, that's already 120 million in CD sales alone. So we face the fact that we aren't solo artists, and we are managed by someone exterior. Plus I guess the money they didn't give us goes to paying our living and training expenses, and up keeping the SERA00 Theatre and Complex.

Anyways, how did I get into discussing such serious stuff? If you guys have any topic suggestions feel free to comment!

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