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What a working character actor really earns
Union scale pays a character actor $1,283 a day on big-budget films, per the published rate sheet, and the health plan floor sits at $28,933.

Union scale pays a character actor $1,283 a day on big-budget films, per the published rate sheet, and the health plan floor sits at $28,933.

Badges, lines, autograph budgets and the unwritten rules — what a first convention actually costs you in money and patience, and how to spend both well.

The formula is simpler than it looks: average your best earning years, then replace a shrinking share of them.