A screen worker's median monthly earnings are around $3,370. That comes to about $40,000 annually. Workers are often offered contracts on a "take it or leave it" basis. There is no scope to negotiate terms and conditions of work, let alone to request to be hired as an employee rather than a contractor. Another problem is that when something goes wrong, contractors in the screen industry have no avenues for recourse within the employment system. Instead, they have to use the civil dispute resolution procedures, which see them treated as corporate entities having a contractual dispute rather than as people just having a problem at work.