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Who is a creative employer?

A creative employer is any entity (non-profit, for-profit, social enterprise, cooperative, fiscally sponsored group, sole proprietor) who engages and pays a creative worker for their labor. This is a term intended to capture the breadth of compensated activities within artistic and cultural industries, and in other industries that engage creative workers, including nonprofit organizations, creative businesses, museums and art galleries, music, film and television, digital media, theater, dance, craft, fashion, publishing, architecture and design, and philanthropy. Compensated activities may involve the development, production, dissemination and preservation of creative goods and services, as well as related endeavors such as education and management.

Not sure if this applies to you?

Not to worry. All the resources included on these pages are intended to be useful to entities that have full and part-time employees and contract workers in the City of Chicago.