These were subsequently bought and taken over by UCI. In 1995, AMC pioneered the first North American megaplex, a theater that can accommodate thousands, when it opened the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas, Texas â the first megaplex in the world had been built by European chain Kinepolis in 1988.
Average Salary. Artists in the Fine Arts sector earn an average annual salary of $57,400, or $27.60 an hour according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This average includes illustrators in the newspaper, periodical, book and directory publishing industry.
Salaries jumped for those between the ages of 25 and 34 to $46,717 a year, and then jumped another $20,000 for illustrators aged 35 to 44, who averaged $66,856 a year. Between the ages of 45 to 54, illustrators earned $69,536, while those over the age of 55 earned an average of $70,181 a year.