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TV/Videotape Wage Scales
Expires 5/31/05
For shows longer than 2 hours, add 1 hour rehearsal to each additional 15 minutes of air time
Variety Show Programs Air Rate Total
1/2 hour (includes 2 hours of rehearsal) 95.45 233.75
1 hour (includes 4 hours of rehearsal) 119.60 396.20
1 & 1/2 hour (includes 6 hours of rehearsal) 178.50 593.40
2 hours (includes 8 hours of rehearsal) 238.10 791.30
Air rate each additional 15 minutes   29.80
Additional rehearsal - 15 minutes   17.30
Rehearsal pay per hour   69.15
Strip Variety Show Programs (5 days per week)
1/2 hour (incl 1 hr reh in 3 hr span) 121.65 190.80
1 hour (incl 2 hr reh in 4 hr span) 145.50 283.80
1 & 1/2 hour (incl 2 hr reh in 5 hr span) 218.25 356.55
Air rate each additional 15 minutes   36.35
Rehearsal pay per hour   69.15
Strip Variety Show Programs (4 days per week)
1/2 hour (incl 1 hr reh in 3 hr span) 133.85 203.00
1 hour (incl 2 hr reh in 4 hr span) 160.80 299.10
1 & 1/2 hour (incl 2 hr reh in 5 hr span) 240.90 379.20
Air rate each additional 15 minutes   41.30
Rehearsal pay per hour   69.15
Strip Variety Show Programs (3 days per week)
1/2 hour (incl 1 hr reh in 3 hr span) 150.00 219.15
1 hour (incl 2 hr reh in 4 hr span) 179.50 317.80
1 & 1/2 hour (incl 2 hr reh in 5 hr span) 267.60 405.90
Air rate each additional 15 minutes   46.85
Rehearsal pay per hour   69.15
Scoring Themes for Daytime Serials
3 hour session   223.90
Overtime (15 min. units)   18.70
  Theme music may be utilized for 26 weeks on news, commentary, public affairs, religious shows, and a program series engaging live musicians for each episode, or for 13 weeks (except prime-time programs) when no live musicians are engaged, or for a particular sports season in the case of a sports series
  Use beyond the above cycles requires an additional payment of 75% to each musician who worked on the Theme.
Non-Musical Game Shows
Three hour session   251.85
Production Musicians/Music Sound Consultants
per hour   69.15
DOUBLING - Weekly Variety Programs or Specials
For Variety Shows: the first double is 25% of list below, the second double is 10%
1/2 hour show - 1st dbl   93.01
1/2 hour show - each add'l double   37.21
1 hour show - 1st dbl   168.20
1 hour show - each add'l double   67.28
1 & 1/2 hour show - 1st dbl   252.08
1 & 1/2 hour show - each add'l double   100.83
For each 15 minutes beyond 1 & 1/2 hours - 1st dbl   42.05
For each 15 minutes beyond 1 & 1/2 hours - add'l dbl   16.82
In Lieu of Needle Drop
Optional buy-out formula for pre-recording.
Three-hour minimum call (per hour, per musician)   207.60
First Double   207.60
Each additional Double   83.00
 General Provisions
Pension   10%
Health & Welfare   $16.00 per day/per show with weekly maximum of $80.00
Multiple Sponsors   7.00 per 1/2 hour
Rest Periods 10 minutes per hour, with no more than two rest periods combined. Except in the case of taping live or airing live, a penalty of 50% of the applicable rehearsal rate shall be imposed for the period commencing when the musicians were initially entitled to a rest period (i.e., after two hours in the chair plus a 5-minute grace period) and continuing until the musicians are released for their rest period. Penalties shall be imposed in 15-minute units.
Meal Periods For work beyond 6 consecutive hours without a meal break of at least 1 hour, a penalty shall be imposed equal to 2 hours at the applicable rehearsal rate plus 1/2 hour at the straight time rehearsal rate for each additional 1/2 hour delay.
Health & Welfare $16.00 per day/per show with weekly maximum of $80.00
Incomplete Tracks
1. For "self-contained groups" - air rate for the show.
2. To the recording and music preparation musicians who made the original recording - air rate plus minimum guaranteed rehearsal.
3. To the "in-studio" orchestra - an additional 2 hours rehearsal for the first track used and 1 additional hour rehearsal for each additional track used, except when the unique music sounds produced by the track of the "guest group" cannot effectively be reproduces by the "in-studio" orchestra.
Leader   Double Scale
Contractor
When an orchestra consists of 6 or less playing musicians a contractor shall not be required. When an orchestra consists of from 7 to 14 playing musicians either a playing or non-playing contractor shall be employed and be paid as follows:
non-playing contractor 150% of applicable scale
playing contractor double the applicable scale
Premium Pay
1. For all work performed beyond and 8 hour time spread in any day, between the hours of 8 am and 12 midnight, payment shall be at the rate of 150%, computed in 15 minute segments.
2. For all work  between the hours of 12 midnight and 8 am, payment shall be at the rate of 150%, computed in 15 minute segments.
3. For all work performed beyond and 8 hour time spread in any day, between the hours of 12 midnight and 8 am, payment shall be at the rate of 200%, computed in 15 minute segments.
4. For all work on the following holidays - 200%: New Year's, Thanksgiving, Memorial, Christmas, Labor, & President's Days
General Provisions For Electronic Multi-Tracking
1. The following rates and conditions, including those for theme music, may not be used in the production of variety programs and award shows.
2. Sequencing required by the Producer prior to a scoring session in order to prepare for the performance constitutes musical services rendered by the musician who performs such services.
3. At the time a musician is initially engaged, s/he shall be advised whether the multi-tracking rate or the "real time" rate applies to the session.
4. The minimum call is 3 hours.
5. If music recorded under this provision is for a daytime serial, the amount of finished music that may be recorded shall be 1 minute for each hour of the session.
NOTE: All other provisions of the agreement (e.g., premium pay, meal periods, hold hour, etc.) apply unless otherwise specified.
Electronic Multi-Tracking Wage Scales
(4% Vacation Pay Included)
  Scale per hour
If only one musician employed under multi-tracking rates  276.66
More than one  242.09
At the Producer's election, a musician who is employed to play an electronic musical device(s) is paid at the above rates which include all doubles and over-dubs.