On January 1, 2025, the new and dramatically improved payment terms for Animation Timers went into effect.
The Producers have agreed to eliminate the often-abused unit (footage) rates for Animation Timers. Producers have also agreed (for all crafts) to raise the minimum rates by 7% (retroactive to Aug. 4, 2024), an additional 4% (effective August 3, 2025) and and additional 3.5% (effective August 2, 2026)
The Producers are now required to hire you either at Weekly rates or at Daily/Hourly rates, and to pay for the time it actually takes you to complete your assignment. Never again should you have to put in uncompensated overtime hours to complete an assignment. So you will want to be sure that you are hired and paid in accordance with the new Agreement.
Join TAG Timing Committee co-Chair Ray Kosarin and TAG Recording Secretary Paula Spence to discuss how to approach communication and billing under the new terms. And if you have encountered confusion or difficulties since January 1 with studios asking you to work under conditions which strike you as unfair—e.g., setting unfair quota requirements—we want to hear about his too.
Please join us, Thursday, February 13 at 7 pm at this link:
