Music Jobs
This is our complete list of music jobs that includes alternate titles, descriptions and salary information. There are also links to get detailed information for each job. Enjoy!
CHURCH MUSIC JOBS
Alternate Titles: Music Director, Minister of Music, Administrator of Music Program
Job Description: Coordinates church choir, recruits singers, develops and trains musical talents, plans choir budget.
Salary: $22,000 to $85,000+
Alternate Titles: Hazan, Reverend
Job Description: Leads prayers in a synagogue or temple, teaches music, pastoral duties.
Salary: $25,000 to $80,000+
Alternate Titles: Organist, Church Musician
Job Description: Plays the organ at religious services and wedding ceremonies.
Salary: $22,000 to $85,000+
Facility, Arena and Club Jobs
Alternate Titles: Theater Manager, Arena Director, Facility Director, Director of Hall Operations
Job Description: Manages concert hall, oversees all activates and employees in venue.
Salary: $26,000 to $95,000+
Concert Hall Marketing Director
Alternate Titles: Director of Marketing, Marketing Manager
Job Description: Coordinates marketing campaigns, oversees public relations and adverting department, develops budgets.
Salary: $25,000 to $100,000+
Alternate Titles: None
Job Description: Responsible for overseeing all aspects of the stage: lighting, curtain changes, stage setup.
Salary: $24,000 to $75,000+
Alternate Titles: Sound Man (or Woman), Audio Technician, Sound Engineer
Job Description: Provides sound for the venue, works the sound board, and keeps sound equipment working and ready.
Salary: $26,000 to $60,000+
Alternate Titles: Club Manager
Job Description: Oversees all employees and handles day-to-day operations.
Salary: $25,000 to $180,000+
Instrument Work & Development Jobs
Musical Instrument Builder/Designer
Alternate Titles: Instrument Craftsman, Custom Instrument Builder, Instrument Designer
Job Description: Design Instruments, Fabricate Instruments. Sells privately or works in a manufacturing factory.
Salary: $25,000 to $150,000+
Instrument Repair and Restoration
Alternate Titles: Instrument Repair Expert, Instrument Restoration
Job Description: Repairs/Restores musical equipment that is broken, scratched, or is not working.
Salary: $25,000 to $100,000+
Alternate Titles: None
Job Description: Performs Piano Repairs, Tunes Pianos.
Salary: $26,000 to $80,000+
Alternate Titles: None
Job Description: Re-hairs string instrument bows and restores old or damaged bows.
Salary: $26,000 to $80,000+
Music Industry Merchandising Jobs
Alternate Titles: Store Manager, Music Department Manager, Instrument Manager
Job Description: Manages music shop or music department, buys/sells instruments and equipment.
Salary: $27,000 to $48,000+
Alternate Titles: Music shop Salesman
Job Description: Educates consumers on new products and informs on product features, sells music accessories, instruments, supplies and more.
Salary: $20,000 to $30,000+
Alternate Titles: Store Manager, Music Department Manager
Job Description: Manage day to day, Supervise workers, Open and Close Store.
Salary: $20,000 to $30,000+
Alternate Titles: Music shop Cashier, Sales Person
Job Description: Sell records, CD's, and merchandise, assist customers in helping them find what they are looking for.
Salary: $17,000 to $27,000+
Instrument Sales Representative
Alternate Titles: Sales Representative, Manufacturers Representative
Job Description: Sells musical equipment to retail and wholesale dealers.
Salary: $24,000 to $76,000+
Alternate Titles: Sub-distributor
Job Description: Provides CD's, DVD's, and music merchandise to stores whose main business is not music industry related.
Salary: $25,000 to $55,000+
MUSIC EDUCATION JOBS
Alternate Titles: Music Administrator
Job Description: Coordinates curriculum and activities of musical teaching staff.
Salary: $28,000 to $84,000+
College or University Music Educator
Alternate Titles: Music Teacher, Professor, Instructor
Job Description: Educates in music theory, history, composition, and/or new advances.
Salary: $25,000 to $80,000+
Secondary School Music Teacher
Alternate Titles: Music Teacher, High school Music Teacher, Middle School Music Teacher, Music Instructor
Job Description: Teaches instrumental and/or vocal music theory to students in high school or junior high.
Salary: $35,000 to $70,000+
Elementary School Music Teacher
Alternate Titles: Music Instructor
Job Description: Introduces and teaches singing, listening, and music theory to young students.
Salary: $30,000 to $75,000+
Alternate Titles: Studio Teacher
Job Description: Instructs and teaches students how to play a specific instrument in a one on one or small group setting.
Salary: $20,000 to $60,000+
Alternate Titles: Record Librarian
Job Description: Catalogs music and does reference work with music related subjects.
Salary: $23,000 to $70,000+
MUSIC HEALTH JOBS
Alternate Titles: None
Job Description: Uses music or musical activities to treat patients suffering from mental, physical, and/or emotional ailments.
Salary: $28,000 to $135,000+
Alternate Titles: None
Job Description: Works with patients that suffer from speech ailments that effect daily life.
Salary: $57,000 to $75,000+
Alternate Titles: None
Job Description: Works with patients that suffer from such problems like vocal cord nodules, vocal cord polyps, spasmodic dysphonia, paralyzed vocal cords, etc.
Salary: $55,000 to $100,000+
OTHER MUSIC JOBS
Recording Artist Website Content Producer
Alternate Titles: Website Content Manager, Website Content Editor
Job Description: Writes and maintains content on website, retains a following through various methods, gathers fan base.
Salary: $25,000 to $75,000+
Personal Assistant to Recording Artist
Alternate Titles: Website Content Manager, Website Content Editor
Job Description: Makes the recording artists personal and professional life easier, screens calls, runs errands, schedules meetings, keeps track of day to day.
Salary: $37,000 to $110,000+
Alternate Titles: Security Guard, Bodyguard
Job Description: Handles the personal safety of musical artist/group or celebrity, handles entry and exit routes, and handles crowds, fans, and stalkers.
Salary: $35,000 to $500,000+
Alternate Titles: Cultural Anthropologist, musicologists, cultural analysts, folklorists
Job Description: Study social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global context, Document Research.
Salary: $30,000 to $91,000+
MUSIC PERFORMING & WRITING JOBS
Alternate Titles: band, Recording Act, Recording Artist
Job Description: Records tracks that are released on albums and as singles.
Salary: The SKY is the Limit!
Alternate Titles: Stock Music Writer, Royalty Free Music Writer
Job Description: Writes music in all styles that is used in productions such as TV shows, commercials, and video games.
Salary: $5,000 to $200,000+
Alternate Titles: Show Group, Show Band
Job Description: Entertainment performers who work at hotels, casinos, halls, clubs, and more.
Salary: $250 to $15,000+ per Show
Alternate Titles: Bar Band, Lounge Band
Job Description: Performs music so the audience can dance and have a good time at clubs, bars, casinos, lounges, and schools.
Salary: $250 to $15,000+ per Show
Alternate Titles: Studio Musicians, Session Player, Sideman, Freelance Musician
Job Description: Plays background music for a recording artist in a studio setting.
Salary: $15,000 to $100,000+
Alternate Titles: Singer, Studio Singer, Vocalist, Background Singer, Chorus Member, Jingle Singer
Job Description: Sings solo or with other singers/musicians in a recording studio or live performance.
Salary: N/A
Alternate Titles: Composer, Lyricist, Writer
Job Description: Writes lyrics, music, or both. Written material is sold and/or pitched to established musical groups or performers.
Salary: $1,500 to $1,000,000+
Music Industry Public Relations & Advertising Jobs
Alternate Titles: Publicist, P.R. Counselor
Job Description: Establishes an artist, company, or musical group's image, writes press releases, assembles press kits and arranges press conferences.
Salary: $27,000 to $200,000+
Alternate Titles: Public Relations Assistant, P.R. Trainee
Job Description: Assistant/apprentice to the P.R. Counselor.
Salary: $22,000 to $28,000+
Alternate Titles: Press Agent
Job Description: Promotes a musical group or artist to the general public, creates and maintains a desired image for the musical act.
Salary: $24,000 to $200,000+
Alternate Titles: Publicist Trainee, Assistant Press Agent
Job Description: Helps Publicist with tasks and duties, double-checks information and references sources.
Salary: $23,000 to $45,000+
Alternate Titles: Writer, Music Critic, Music Reviewer
Job Description: Writes articles for publications or blogs, Writes reviews and critiques musical groups and artists performances, albums, videos, etc.
Salary: $26,000 to $150,000+
Advertising Account Executive, Music Publication
Alternate Titles: Salesman, Sales Representative, Sales Executive
Job Description: Sells advertising space in periodicals or newspapers, meets with musical group representatives and marketers, develops advertising promotions.
Salary: $22,000 to $130,000+
Advertising Account Executive, Music Website
Alternate Titles: Account Executive, Advertising Account Representative, Advertising Sales Representative
Job Description: Sells advertising space on websites, meets with musical group representative and marketers, develops advertising promotions, Prepares orders, keeps records of sales.
Salary: $21,000 to $100,000+
Radio & Television JOBS
Alternate Titles: PD., Director of Programs
Job Description: Institute radio format and schedule, select radio programs.
Salary: $27,000 to $110,000+
Alternate Titles: M.D., Director of Music
Job Description: Select specific musical genres that will fit into the radio station format for which you are working.
Salary: $25,000 to $97,000+
Alternate Titles: D.J., Deejay, On-Air Personality
Job Description: Portrays the voice and personality of the radio station by introducing music, commercial products, and by promoting local venues and shows.
Salary: $25,000 to $1,000,000+
Alternate Titles: V.J., Vee-jay, Video Jock
Job Description: Introduce music videos on TV, host programs, discuss/review videos, promote artists.
Salary: $28,000 to $500,000+
Recording & Record Industry JOBS
Alternate Titles: A & R Representative, A & R Rep, Artist and Repertoire Coordinator, A & R Staffer, Talent Acquisition Representative
Job Description: Searches to find new artists or bands that fit well within a label's genre and framework, and sets them up to sign a record deal with the record label.
Salary: $29,000 to $150,000+
Alternate Titles: Artist and Repertoire Administrator, A&R Administration Representative
Job Description: Develop and adhere to the budget for artists and bands signed to the label, while working with accounting and legal personnel within the A&R Department.
Salary: $28,000 to $67,000+
Alternate Titles: Promotion Director, Director of Promotions
Job Description: Develops, implements and directs promotional campaigns for the record label and its artists. They work to get radio airplay and more.
Salary: $31,000 to $97,000+Alternate Titles: Promotions Man, Regional Staff Promotion Person, Local Promotion Person, Record Promoter, And Promotional Representative
Job Description: Is representation on behalf of record labels and artists at radio stations. They establish airplay for artists and bands.
Salary: $29,000 to $65,000+
Alternate Titles: P.R. Director, Publicity Director, Director of Publicity and Press Relations
Job Description: Oversees the Publicity Department at record labels and is responsible for formulating and managing publicity campaigns.
Salary: $36,000 to $100,000+
Alternate Titles: Press Agent, Flack Agent
Job Description: Work to make sure artists and record labels are represented positively to the general public. Also arrange press kits, campaigns, and more.
Salary: $24,000 to $82,000+
Artist Relations and Development Representative
Alternate Titles: Artist Relations and Development Staffer
Job Description: Serves as coordinator and liaison between the record label, artist management, and signed artists in order to grow its impressions.
Salary: $28,000 to $72,000+
Alternate Titles: Marketer, Marketing Staffer
Job Description: Implements surveys to specific markets, briefs radio stations and trade magazines on record sales and more.
Salary: $28,000 to $55,000+
Alternate Titles: Market Analyst, Market Researcher
Job Description: Survey consumer methods of purchasing, while analyzing and formulating consumer purchasing strategies.
Salary: $24,000 to $49,000+
Alternate Titles: Regional Director of Sales, District Sales Manager
Job Description: Oversee album sales to wholesalers and retailers; implement sales campaigns and protocol, manage regional departments.
Salary: $42,000 to $96,000+
Record Industry Advertising Account Executive
Alternate Titles: Account Representative
Job Description: Implement record label advertising campaigns.
Salary: $31,000 to $65,000+
Alternate Titles: Sales Representative
Job Description: work to sell the label's albums and merchandise.
Salary: $32,000 to $52,000+
Alternate Titles: Merchandising Representative, Field Representative
Job Description: Distribute merchandise and promotions to retailers and wholesale departments.
Salary: $27,000 to $42,000+
Alternate Titles: Trainee
Job Description: Perform a wide range of tasks within the record company, learn through hands-on experience and get a foot in the door.
Salary: $0 to $3,000+ (College Credits are Offered in Lieu of Salary)
Alternate Titles: Student Representative, Label Representative, College Representative, Campus Rep
Job Description: Promote albums, merchandise, and events in and/or around the college campus.
Salary: $1,500 to $9,000+
Alternate Titles: Market Adapter, Transcriber, Transcript
Job Description: Arrange track/album tempo, vocals, harmony, rhythm etc. Stay up to date on industry trends and maintain musician's style.
Salary: $28,000 to $200,000+
Alternate Titles: Producer
Job Description: Create albums/tracks for artists, manage and direct albums, and oversee recording sessions.
Salary: $27,000 to $1,000,000+
Alternate Titles: Mixer, Recording Assistant, Audio Engineer
Job Description: Manage sound boards and equipment during studio recording sessions.
Salary: $29,000 to $160,000+
Alternate Titles: Recording Assistant, Recording Studio Setup Worker
Job Description: Setup recording booth and electronics before a recording session begins; fix and replace equipment as necessary.
Salary: $19,000 to $28,000+
Alternate Titles: None
Job Description: Transpose music from one instrument or voice to another in order to accommodate a particular musician or group; write scores for an orchestra, band, choral group, individual instrumentalist, or vocalist.
Salary: N/A
Alternate Titles: None
Job Description: Transcribe musical elements from score to staff paper.
Salary: N/A
Alternate Titles: Website Administrator, Web Designer, Web Developer, Web Admin
Job Description: Design, develop, implement and maintain an internet presence for record label and artists.
Salary: $32,000 to $150,000+
Alternate Titles: Internet Marketing Director, Website Marketer, Internet Advertising Representative
Job Description: Establish a presence on the internet, market and promote the label and its artists, maintain and develop web campaigns, create partnerships on the web, maintain publicity and press.
Salary: $27,000 to $65,000+
Alternate Titles: Website Content Editor, Website Copyrighter
Job Description: Produce content for the record label and artist's website, write articles and update site events.
Salary: $29,000 to $85,000+
Symphony, Orchestra, and Opera JOBS
Alternate Titles: Musical Director
Job Description: Works with the orchestra, practices and prepares them for concerts, conducts the performance.
Salary: $20,000 to $275,000+
Alternate Titles: Section Leader, 1st Violinist
Job Description: Leads an entire section of the orchestra, performs solos, tunes their section of the orchestra.
Salary: $25,000 to $425,000+
Alternate Titles: Principal Player
Job Description: Leads a section of the orchestra, may supervise rehearsals with the section, assigns parts to musicians.
Salary: $25,000 to $95,000+
Alternate Titles: Classical Musician, Section Player
Job Description: Plays an instrument in the orchestra.
Salary: $900-$2,500+ per Show.
Alternate Titles: Singer, Classical Singer, Operatic Singer
Job Description: Sings, performs, and may act in operas.
Salary: $10,000 to $215,000+
Alternate Titles: Executive Director, Chief Administrator
Job Description: Handles the administrative duties of the orchestra.
Salary: $22,000 to $1,000,000+
Alternate Titles: Assistant Manager, Operations Manager
Job Description: Assistant to Managing Director, Negotiates musical orchestra performer contracts.
Salary: $26,000 to $100,000+
Alternate Titles: Management Official
Job Description: Oversees orchestra's financial affairs, prepares and distributes payroll.
Salary: $25,000 to $85,000+
Alternate Titles: Fundraising Director
Job Description: Coordinates annual activities and campaigns, and establishes relationships with donors.
Salary: $25,000 to $90,000+
Alternate Titles: P.R. Director, Director of Press Relations, Publicity Director
Job Description: Coordinates press and promotions of orchestra, may handle advertising.
Salary: $25,000 to $75,000+
Subscriptions and Ticket Service Director
Alternate Titles: Head of Subscriptions, Ticket Service Director.
Job Description: Obtains new subscribers for the orchestra, re-news subscribers, records ticket sales.
Salary: $24,000 to $49,000+
Director of Educational Activities
Alternate Titles: Education Director
Job Description: Coordinates programs for students, acclimates youth with classical music, helps secure a future in classical music.
Salary: $24,000 to $50,000+
Alternate Titles: Personnel Manager
Job Description: Distributes notices for career opportunities within the orchestra, screens applicants, maintains applications and potential candidates on file.
Salary: $26,000 to $65,000+
Alternate Titles: Librarian
Job Description: Catalogs and orders music for the orchestra, assists conductor by copying scores and sheet music.
Salary: $27,000 to $62,000+
Music Business Jobs
Alternate Titles: Artists Representative, Manager, Band Manager
Job Description: Represents musical acts, guides all aspects of artist's career.
Salary: 10% to 50% of Artists Total Earnings.
Alternate Titles: Booking Manager, Theatrical Agent, Booker, Agent, Booking Representative
Job Description: Schedules and books venues for Musical Talent to perform.
Salary: $20,000 to $1,000,000+
Alternate Titles: Talent Promoter, Promoter
Job Description: Hosts musical artists at concerts, clubs, and events, coordinates venue details.
Salary: $0 to $1,000,000+
Alternate Titles: None
Job Description: Publish music, negotiate royalties, screen songs, prints music, gain copyrights, disperse music.
Salary: $0 to $1,000,000+
Alternate Titles: Song Plugger
Job Description: Inspires musical talents to record music written from outside sources
Salary: $25,000 to $100,000+
Alternate Titles: Business Agent
Job Description: Manages the finances of musicians and entertainers.
Salary: $25,000 to $1,000,000+
Alternate Titles: Lawyer, Attorney
Job Description: Manages all legal matters for musicians. This includes contractual agreements, negotiating, advice, and counseling.
Salary: $60,000 to $1,000,000+
Music Industry Trade Association Executive Director
Alternate Titles: Association Executive, Trade Association Director
Job Description: Coordinates operations involving the trade association, Manages affairs of organization and budgeting.
Salary: $26,000 to $100,000+
Music Industry Touring Jobs
Alternate Titles: Tour Director
Job Description: Oversee and coordinate all tour elements and personnel.
Salary: $35,000 to $180,000+
Alternate Titles: Road Manager
Job Description: Deals with unexpected tour complications, Find solutions for sound and lighting component malfunctions.
Salary: $28,000 to $127,000+
Alternate Titles: Publicist
Job Description: Publicizes tour information to fans and press, handles promotions, press conferences.
Salary: $30,000 to $100,000+
Alternate Titles: Audio Technician, Sound Person, Sound Man/Woman
Job Description: Sets up and uses soundboard and other sound equipment during concerts or performances.
Salary: $27,000 to $65,000+
Alternate Titles: Advance Agent
Job Description: Arrives at venue hours or even days before the live show in order to coordinate tour aspects with the Tour Director and Tour Manager.
Salary: $25,000 to $48,000+
