Bectu Ratecard for Sound Recordists

14 Apr 2009

BECTU have kindly updated their ratecard for freelancers working in Broadcast. This is a good guide to the daily rate freelancers like myself can expect for their work. I hope that the fact that the ratecard was published on April 1st is not an ominous sign, although the lack of adjustment to rates over the last 20 years might suggest otherwise.

Anyway, I don’t publish my daily rate on this site as a matter of courtesy, however maybe it would be a helpful guide for some if I reproduce the relevant section below…

‘FREELANCE RATE-CARD for FACTUAL TV PROGRAMMES

APRIL 2009

Going rates for a 10-hour day

SOUND DEPT.
Sound Recordist £319 (inc holiday pay)
(£285) (exc holiday pay)

OVERTIME

BECTU believes that overtime should be paid at a premium rate. The
most common overtime rate is 1.5T. ‘

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I am a freelance sound recordist with over 8 years experience in television, film & radio with numerous broadcast credits. I trained in location sound recording at the National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield, and am also experienced as a dubbing mixer; I have a small studio for post production dubbing and mixing.

I also teach Sound in various forms at the London Met Film School in Ealing Studios, and at the National Film & Television School, Beaconsfield.

I am based in Oxford but work largely in London; I have my own full location recording kit, transport and a clean driving licence and am available for work across the UK and worldwide.

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