What Actors Get Paid

Video Transcript

"SCOTT DUPONT: Hi, Scott duPont here. We're back for the next segment. I'm the producer of the DVD "Acting 101: How to be a Working Actor" on behalf of Expert Village. And on the first segment, I gave you a brief overview of the many different types of jobs that you can find even if you don't live in New York or L.A. or of the two most common markets. So I'm going to go through really quickly here and just give you a rough idea of what they would pay. Now film and this is a fluke because you're going to go out and book a Screen Actors Guild, theatrical film for your first job. It probably will not happen, but to give you an idea. Actually, SAG has many different contracts and I'll get into that in a later segment, but you're going to get anywhere between a hundred dollars a day on a nonunion or an indie film or a SAG ultra-low budget project all the way up to about a thousand dollars a day when you add in overtime, etcetera, etcetera. Now, the next thing we will talk about is television and under Screen Actor's Guild or after, either one, you're looking usually about $500 to $1,000 a day. Now, what's going to be more common, especially in different markets around the country, would be commercials. And there are tons and tons of commercials and that can run about $100 from an extra on a commercial all the way up to $1,000 which should be about the most you would get for a nonunion commercial. Now, if you're lucky enough to get a SAG or a union commercial, you can make several thousand dollars; in fact, tens of thousands of dollars if the commercial plays in many markets for a long period of time. But don't get too excited about that yet. We're just starting with the basics here. The corporate videos or the training videos I've discussed. They'll run anywhere between $150 and $600 a day. Now, if you're the spokesperson for those, you can get $500 to $1,500 a day, so that's quite nice. Print, I told you a little bit about. That's anywhere between $75 and that can be per hour up to $1500, $2000 for the day. So there's really a wide range there, but usually print goes very, very quickly. Extra work for a film, to kind of wrap things up here, it's going to be $50 dollars to really should not be more than $125 in a major film with a little bit of overtime. So that's that and stay tuned for our next segment on Expert Village."