The AFM Local 47 Live Performance/Music Prep for Live Performance Wage Scales have been updated for 2023.
Print books are now available. Please email live2@afm47.org to request a complimentary copy (one per member).
A digital copy of the book is also posted in the members-only section of our website (login required).
The IRS mileage reimbursement rate has been changed for the remainder of 2022. The new rate, in effect as of July 1 through Dec. 31, 2022, is now 62.5 cents per mile driven for business use (up from 58.5 cents per mile as of Jan. 1, 2022).
The Local 47 Wage Scale book in the members section of our website has been updated to reflect this change.
The AFM Local 47 Live Performance/Music Prep for Live Performance Wage Scales have been updated for 2022. A digital copy of the book is now available in the members-only section of our website (login required). Print copies of the book will be available soon; please contact the Live Performance Department for more information.
The AFM Local 47 Executive Board at its Nov. 24, 2020 meeting, voted in favor of accepting the recommendation of the Wage Scale Committee to freeze the wages, terms, and conditions set forth in the 2020 Live Performance & Music Prep Wage Scale Book through 2021.
Members may find the Wage Scales in the members-section at afm47.org (login required) or by requesting a book from the Live Performance Department: 323.993.3156, live@afm47.org.
The AFM has posted updates to the Theatrical Motion Picture and TV Film (regular and low budget) for 2019. The new scale summaries may be found here.
Recording Musicians Wage Scales for Independent Theatrical Motion Pictures and Television Films, and the Low Budget Summary, have been updated with an extension term through April 4, 2019. You may find them posted here.
Wage scales for the Los Angeles Orchestra Leaders’ Association have been updated for 2018.
Members may access the CBA in the members-section at afm47.org (login required) or by contacting our Live Performance Department at 323.993.3156 or 323.993.3147.
The Executive Board has approved the Wage Scale Committee’s recommendations for updates to Live Engagements and Music Prep for Live Engagements, which take effect January 1, 2018.
The printed books will be published mid-January and available by request from the Live Performance Department. A digital copy of the 2018 Wage Scale book is available in the Member Section at afm47.org (login required) from the “Members-Only Scales & Documents” tab.
The AFM has made available Music Prep scales for copyists preparing parts for musical theater, which are also available in the members section of our website.
Following a proposal from Locals 47 and 802, the AFM International Executive Board, pursuant to its authority under Article 3, Sections 9(b)-(e) of the AFM Bylaws, has approved a National Live Musical Theater music preparation minimum scale, applicable in the U.S. and Canada, to become effective on April 1, 2017.
This National Musical Theater Music Preparation scale is for live musical theater productions only, applicable in all locals of the US and Canada. It shall not apply to any other category of music prep services (e.g., symphonic, electronic media, miscellaneous, etc.).
Establishment of this scale stabilizes rates in an increasingly portable work environment and removes the incentive for producers or their agents located, or mounting a production, in a Local’s jurisdiction to engage music prep services in a different Local solely on the basis that a different Local may have lower music prep rates.
A copy of this wage scale may be accessed in the members section at afm47.org (login required).