Commercials
Commercials
Working on a jingle? The AFM will work with you to get the best wages and benefits. The AFM negotiates and administers the TV & Radio Commercial Announcements Agreement to represent musicians who are responsible for the music in jingles. The administrator works with a wide range of creative advertising agencies to implement the agreement.
When a union musician is hired to record music for a commercial jingle, he or she will be paid according to a negotiated wage scale that sets an hourly wage, pension contributions and health & welfare benefits.
When an original recording is incorporated into commercial jingles, the musicians who originally performed the work are paid a "new-use" fee equivalent to the one-hour minimum call session fee, as well as pension and health & welfare benefits that would have been paid if the musicians had come into the studio to record music for commercial jingles. This "new-use" payment applies for all types of original recorded music, including phonograph records, cds, film scores and TV themes.
Contact: Matt Allen (Contract Administrator-Commercials)
E-mail: mallen@afm.org
Telephone: (213) 251-4510 x 206
For more information, click below:
- AFM Commercial Agreement 2004 - 2007 (PDF)
- Music Prep Rates (PDF)
- Commercial Assumption Agreement (PDF)
- Wage Summary (PDF) - Please Note: rates are pending ratification.
