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Administration Fee Discounts

Membership in the CMPA provides access to collective agreements and administrative fee discounts for those agreements, such as the Writers Guild, ACTRA and others. For example, if a CMPA producer member hires a writer with the Writers Guild, the CMPA member will receive a discount on the Writers Guild administration fee for the contract with the writer. However, CMPA members are not automatically bound to all collective agreements. They are not required to use union or guild employees. Member use of collective agreements is voluntary.

Collective agreement administration fees are mandatory when union or guild employees join a production. Fees for CMPA members are capped at a maximum. Non-members have no fee cap. Your CMPA membership guarantees you the benefit of administrative fee discounts.

For details of administrative fees in Canada, please see index below:

ACTRA

• Non-members
2.5% with no maximum

• CMPA Members
If the gross performers fees are under $2 million (ACTRA and SAG performers) it is 2% to a cap of $4000 plus applicable taxes per Feature, MOW, Episode or part of a Mini-series. If the gross performers fees are over $2 million (ACTRA and SAG performers) it is $6000 plus applicable taxes.

Directors Guild of Canada

• Non-members
2.5% with no maximum

• CMPA Members
2% of the gross remuneration to a maximum of $5000 plus applicable taxes per Feature, MOW, part of a Mini-series or $2500 plus applicable taxes per Episode.

IATSE 411 Craftservice Providers and Honeywagon Operators

• CMPA Members
1.5% of each Member's total wages to a maximum of $1,000 per feature, MOW or pilot and $2,500 per mini-series or cycle of a series, plus applicable taxes.

NABET

• CMPA Members
1.5% of the bargaining unit Technicians gross remuneration to a maximum of $2500 plus applicable taxes per episode, $3500 plus applicable taxes per Feature, MOW, Episode or part of a Mini-series or $5000 plus applicable taxes for high budget productions (budgets over $10 million)

Writers Guild of Canada - This agreement is national.

• Non-members
3.5% with no maximum.

• CMPA Members
2.75% of the gross fees to a maximum of $3000 plus applicable taxes per Feature, MOW, or part of a Mini-series or $2000 plus applicable taxes per episode.

British Columbia Administrative Fees

ACFC WEST

• Non-members/AMPTP Affiliates
2% of the gross wages of each technician No maximum for features budgeted less than $3.6 million.
2% of the gross wages of each technician No maximum for features budgeted over $3.6 million.

• CMPA Members
1% of the gross wages of each technician. No maximum.

British Columbia and Yukon Council of Film Unions

• Non-members/AMPTP Affiliates
4% of the gross wages of each employee. No maximum.

• CMPA Members
1% of the gross wages of each employee to a maximum of:
$1,500 + applicable taxes per episode of a series
$2,000 + applicable taxes per television movie or low budget feature
$4,500 + applicable taxes per high-budget feature or mini-series

Directors Guild of Canada (B.C.)

• Non-members
4% of the employees' gross wages. No maximum.

• CMPA Members
1% of the employees gross wages. No maximum.

Union of B.C. Performers (UBCP)

• Non-members
4% of the gross performers' fees. No maximum.

• CMPA Members
1% of the gross performers' fees up to $2 million to a maximum of $3,000 + applicable taxes per production or episode.
1% of the gross performers' fees over $2 million to a maximum of $5,000 + applicable taxes per production.

UBCP- British Columbia Animation Agreement

• Non-members
1% of the gross fees paid to all performers.

• CMPA Members
0.5% of the gross fees paid to all performers.