Know Your Worth by Working Class Artist Group

The Arts are a career for Artists and being paid appropriately and justly is your right as Artists.  This snapshot of recommended minimum levels of pay is a way to support you to gauge fee charges structures when you are negotiating pay with external organisations.  Don’t be shy to charge your worth, Artists have to eat too!

Theatre:

• ITC rates can be found at: www.itc-arts.org/rates-of-pay/
• ITC recommend the following:  Performers and stage managers £494 a week, although they don’t recommend hours or overtime listed.  They also detail commuting and meal costs.

Directors

• Preparatory Fee: Full length play - £1,614.30
• Preparatory Fee: Short play - £1,117.00
• Rehearsals: Weekly payment - £494.00
• Artistic/ Resident Directors: Weekly pay for all duties - £599.90

Writers

• Full length play £9,176.00
• Play under 70 minutes in length £6,110.00
• Play under 30 minutes in length £3,056.00
• Minimum royalty £62.10
• Royalty threshold £61,807.00

Designers

• Design fee £2,704.70
• Making weekly fee for building set and other duties £529.90

Choreographers

• Preparation and up to 2 weeks’ rehearsal minimum fee £1,994.40
• More than 2 weeks’ rehearsal weekly fee £494.00
• More than 2 weeks’ rehearsal daily rate £160.50
• Session rate (max 3 hours) £103.20

Equity keep their rates private for members only, however, here are some insights:

Performers on an indie film daily minimums:

• Daily £144
• Weekly £576
• Holiday Pay £16.22

Plus a copy of the DVD to give to your Nan!

Voice Over

• Linear recordings irrespective of the platform
• Minimum fee £214 half day session
• Minimum fee £357 full day session

Or complete buy out

• Half day rate £299
• Full day rate £527

Variety and Cabaret Artists

Equity expect you to negotiate your own fees.

Visual Art:

Scottish Artists Union recommend

Hourly Rates:

• £25.50 per hour for a new graduate
• £33.00 per hour for an artist with +3 years’ experience
• £41.00 per hour for an artist with +5 years’ experience

Sessional Rates:

New Graduate Artist

• £102.00 4-hour minimum call
• £204.00 8-hour day rate

3+ Years’ Experience

• £132.00 4-hour minimum call
• £264.00 8-hour day rate

5+ Years’ Experience

• £164.00 4-hour minimum call
• £328.00 8-hour day rate

Day rates are based on an 8hr day.  Minimum ‘call’ is a 4hr session.  Additional hours over 8hrs should be a minimum of the hourly rate. Recommended for additional hrs Rate of pay x1.5 for additional hours or Rate of Pay x2 for out of normal hours/weekends/holidays.