Your number
$4,000
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$4,000 per project
What to charge for each thing (6)
- Commercial casting, one role$1,750 per project
- Commercial casting, full cast$4,025 per project
- Indie or short film casting$2,975 per project
- Casting session day (in room or self-tape review)$625 per day
- Street casting or real-people search$2,450 per project
- Callbacks or additional session$425 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$4,000
For casting a project, the quote is $4,000.
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 usually day at $600 to $1,200. You are above it. That is fine when the work is, and it is the reason to say it plainly and show the work.
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.