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IATSE: Costume Designers Achieve Scale Rate in Line With Peers as Part of New Contract Achievements


Costume designers will receive a wage increase of over 40%, bringing their pay in line with their peers as part of the new IATSE agreement.

As IATSE reached a deal on a new overarching contract with Hollywood’s major studios and streamers, Variety obtained a copy of the guild’s achievements which also summarized their gains in the General Basic Agreement Negotiations. A noticeable wage gap becomes apparent when considering what is often a 60-hour work week: Scale rates for costume designers, who are 87% female, under the IATSE Basic Agreement are approximately 30-65% lower than those of their creative department head counterparts, which are 82-93% male. “Whenever and as long as the practice of giving screen credit to any individual (exclusive of the Producer, Director, Writer and cast) prevails, the Producer agrees that screen credit shall also be given on all motion pictures covered hereunder to Costume Designers rendering their services for the production.

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