Pay at OCUS - Photographer OCUS Employee Review

2.0
13 Dec 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fairly steady number of jobs and pay

Cons

Photographer rates are way below market. Not sustainable for full time photographers in the long run but was a life saver during covid.

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OCUS Response
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Hello, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We are happy to hear that we’ve helped you and other image creators during Covid-19 times. We will continue to do our best to keep helping other photographers with this complementary activity to expand their expertise and portfolio and offset the off-season. We understand our rates are not comparable to A-to-Z photoshoots. As you mentioned, OCUS assignments are a compensatory activity. We put our efforts into working with clients valuing the quality of professional photography. We are also focused on evaluating new ways of doing assignments so they are true easy-to-do side gigs our photographers don’t have to look for. We hope we can meet your expectations in the future. Best regards, The OCUS team

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Pros

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