From projects to career.

Summary Intermittent artists consent to very large variations in salary. The artists' positions on their salaries and the reasons they give for choosing to participate or not in a project provide a methodological entry point into the labyrinth of remunerations, salary and otherwise, associated with artistic work. This case highlights the fact that, far from having a compensatory relationship in a zero-sum game, monetary and non-monetary rewards are not disjointed dimensions and are not necessarily opposed. The two registers are apprehended together in the anticipation of the quality of the projects.