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Freelance Billing Time for a Day and Weekly Rate
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Day rates are very much the norm here in LA. As well as weekly rates, but those work out to daily rate times 5.
And the rate is based on a 10 hour day. Sometimes you work 8, sometimes twelve. Any SIXTH day is billed typically as just another day. Unless the Union is involved. But 10 hour days is the norm.
Shane
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Shane,
The ten hour day is still considered the norm by most here in town, but the state actually shit-canned that several years back. Like every other industry, we’re supposed to get OT after eight hours, even though ten was the norm for years. However, though eight straight has been the legal rule for about ten years, almost no one adheres to it.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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DRW,
I didn’t know they made that change in CA. Thanks for the update.I’ve always worked in “right to work” states and my typical freelance structure (after some trial and error) was full days or half days. I learned my lesson about charging “per hour” very early in my career. Getting hired for a string of multiple two and a half hour days doing commercial production can be very costly to an upstart freelancer.
My half days after that were “up to” 4 hours, but usually consisted of shoots that lasted between 2 and 3 hours tops. Anything over four hours was a full-day rate, with overtime after 10 hours and “golden time” (double rate) after 12 hours.
I started in the early 90’s – gripping and helping out with audio – at $7/hour. (Really.) My rate has increased a bit since then.
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[Timothy J. Allen] “I learned my lesson about charging “per hour” very early in my career.”
Me too Tim! And, I never liked keeping track of hours and minutes, etc. anyway, that’s a whole job unto itself.
[Timothy J. Allen] “I didn’t know they made that change in CA. Thanks for the update.”
Yep, I too was surprised when I found about it, as I had been billing ten straight automatically for decades. The CA legislature apparently woke up to the fact sometime back, finally acknowledging that the old ten-hour standard had been affording preferential treatment to the studios over the rights of labor for years. It’s logical when you think about it; the film/TV industry is really no different than any other industry.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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