Your number
$5,250
Your rate card
- Day rate$950 per day
- Hourlyfor anything that does not fit a day$125 per hour
- Casting a projectbreakdown, submissions, sessions, callbacks, deal memos$5,250 per project
What to charge for each thing (6)
- Commercial casting, one role$2,500 per project
- Commercial casting, full cast$5,750 per project
- Indie or short film casting$4,250 per project
- Casting session day (in room or self-tape review)$900 per day
- Street casting or real-people search$3,500 per project
- Callbacks or additional session$600 per session
US rates for casting directors at your level, adjusted for your market. What you last got wins.
- casting a projectbreakdown, submissions, sessions, callbacks, deal memos$5,250
For casting a project, the quote is $5,250.
To take home $85,000 after $9,000 of costs and 30% tax you need to bill $134,286 a year. At 24 billable hours a week for 47 weeks that is $125 an hour, $950 a day. Anything under that is a pay cut you did not agree to.
Casting directors at your level day at about $900; you sit inside the range, so quote it without apology.
Casting a project runs $2,500 to $8,000 and takes about 32 hours of your time; at your hourly that is $4,000. The number is the higher of the two, because the client is buying the outcome, not the hours.