{"id":14715,"date":"2016-10-31T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14715"},"modified":"2016-10-30T18:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T22:14:33","slug":"the-economics-of-retiring-ballerinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-economics-of-retiring-ballerinas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Retiring Ballerinas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/103016_2212_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"635\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a wider article about the afterlife of ballerinas, Alice Robb had some fascinating details about the economic pressures they face:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At their peak, ballerinas only earn about $18,000 a year.<\/li>\n<li>They can maybe double that through non-dance events.<\/li>\n<li>To make matters worse they&#8217;re overly optimistic about how long they&#8217;ll be able to work. Most expect to go until their 40s, but the average ballerina retires at 34.<\/li>\n<li>Retirement is often forced upon them by career ending injuries \u2013 only 5% voluntarily leave the industry.<\/li>\n<li>Only 3% of ballerinas say they want to go onto teach dance, but 53% end up doing just that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article provides a far deeper look at the life and afterlife of a ballerina. Read it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/a39990\/alexandra-ansanelli-prima-ballerina-career\/\">Elle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/10\/dancing-retirements.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a wider article about the afterlife of ballerinas, Alice Robb had some fascinating details about the economic pressures they face: At their peak, ballerinas only earn about $18,000 a year. They can maybe double that through non-dance events. To make matters worse they&#8217;re overly optimistic about how long they&#8217;ll be able to work. Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/103016_2212_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14717,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions\/14717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}