RateTrendUnion Scale Intelligence
Past · Current · Scheduled

Every union rate, in one place.

Crew, director, and talent scale for commercial production — traced across every agreement, with the clause language, bargaining history, and upcoming raises that sit behind each number.

4,680
rate points
27
unions & locals
1941–2028
years covered
23
contracts, full-text
Nine ways in
For bidding

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The producer's quick-lookup: today's union floor for any craft, the next scheduled raise, and a running crew estimate you build as you go.

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Crew rate matrix

Wages

The crew heat-map — IATSE, Teamsters and DGA scale by craft and year, hourly/daily/weekly, with trajectory lines and a Position Lens that follows one role across every agreement.

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Performer scale

Talent

SAG-AFTRA on its own terms — principal and group session fees, on- and off-camera, for film and audio commercials, category by category across every cycle.

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Writer minimums

Writers

WGA per-project minimums — theatrical screenplay by budget tier, TV teleplay by length, story, rewrite and week-to-week — across each Minimum Basic Agreement, 2014→2025.

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Language over time

Timeline

How the contracts themselves changed — the clauses and definitions that were added, cut, or rewritten from one agreement to the next.

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Give & take

Bargaining

Round-by-round wins and concessions across the Basic, CPA, and SAG-AFTRA cycles — the real gains behind each headline percentage, cited to the MOA.

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Buying power

Machine

Scale against inflation — what a day's rate actually bought, indexed to CPI, so you can see where real wages held, gained, or slipped.

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Full-text search

Clauses

Free-text search across 23 active contracts — turnaround, meal penalties, new-media, overtime — with results shaded by contract and expandable in context.

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What's coming

Raises

Every scheduled scale bump on a calendar, with a shoot-window check that flags when a raise lands mid-production — plus wages versus CPI at a glance.

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Sources. Compiled from the union agreements themselves — IATSE Basic, Area Standards and AICP Commercial (CPA) agreements, the DGA Basic and Commercial agreements, the SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract, and Teamsters Local 399/817 — spanning ratified, current, and scheduled-future scale. Historical rate cards recovered by OCR where only scanned copies survive. Figures are scale minimums; actual deals, fringes, and use fees vary. A working reference, not legal or financial advice.