At the end of this month the Animation Guild's standard collective bargaining agreement enters its third year, and the minimum rates of pay will be going up by three percent.
And here's a summary of some of the journey minimums, effective August 3, 2008:
HOURLY/WEEKLY SALARIES (per forty-hour week):Production Board [staff]: $1,764.84 per 40-hour week
Animator, Background, Layout, Model Designer, Animation Writer, Visual Development, CGI Animator/Modeler, Production Technical Director [I]: $38.366 per hour; $1,534.64 per 40-hour week
Key Assistant Animator, Key Assistant CGI Animator/Modeler [II], Production Technical Director [II]: $36.768 per hour; $1,470.72 per 40-hour week
Assistant Animator, Assistant Background, Assistant Layout, Assistant Model Designer, Animation Checker, Color Key, Assistant CGI Animator/Modeler [III], Production Technical Director [III], Digital Check: $32.833 per hour; $1,313.32 per 40-hour week
SCRIPT/STORYBOARD UNIT RATES:
7-15 minutes
Synopsis and Outline: $842.64; 35 health and pension hours
Storyboard Only: $1,402.31 38 health and pension hours
Teleplay or Screenplay: $2,748.39; 115 health and pension hours
- Full Script* (outline plus screenplay): $3,591.03; 150 health and pension hours
Half-hour subjects
Synopsis and Outline: $1,499.01; 68 health and pension hours
Storyboard Only: $2,662,94; 75 health and pension hours
Teleplay or Screenplay: $5,267.66; 232 health and pension hours
- Full Script* (outline plus screenplay): $6,766.67; 300 health and pension hours
One hour or more
Synopsis and Outline: $2,230.80; 70 health and pension hours
Storyboard Only: $3,971.96; 113 health and pension hours
Teleplay or Screenplay: $7,924.11; 230 health and pension hours
- Full Script* (outline plus screenplay): $10,154.91; 300 health and pension hours
* reflects the Synopsis and Outline minimum plus the Teleplay or Screenplay minimum.
This summary only reflects the rates in our standard CBA, and it is not inclusive of all job categories or non-journey levels. Nor does it reflect the minimums in IATSE contracts with Disney/TTL, Sony Pictures Animation or ImageMovers Digital. For all the CBA minimums, go to our website and click on the Contracts tab.
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4 comments:
Out of curiosity, how do or can union shops handle someone having multiple positions within one company. I'm thinking for example of certain Disney animators who also do storyboard or vis dev. Do they get one contract, and work in a different position within those hours/pay, or are there two seperate contracts (or 2 combined into 1)? What are the options?
The contract says: "If an employee shall be engaged in more than one classification of work during any workweek, he shall be paid on a pro rata basis for the time spent in each classification." (Article 4.D. - p. 8).
As a practicial matter, usually folks are salaried off the higher classification, since it often becomes a nightmare of bookkeeping to keep track of how many hours somebody worked in which rate.
But ... occasionally it's done that way. The examples you give have the same minimum rates, so in that case it's moot.
My personal experience is that the studio prefers just to call you one thing (vis dev or story) and pay you for that, even if you do the other thing. We've used the "double-hitter" strategy to up the salary, but it doesn't seem to be an effective strategy (just makes the negotiating exec happier that s/he is getting value for the money).
So figure out which one you're going to do more of and get paid for that. I started out in one category, but ended up in another. I always did both vis dev and story, but it shifted over time which I did more of. Eventually, the company changed my title -but the salary didn't change when the title did.
"Production Board [staff]: $1,764.84 per 40-hour week"
Is that the rate for a full-time tv board artist, or feature board artist?
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