SAG-AFTRA National Executive Committee Ratifies New Corporate/Educational & Non-Broadcast Contract

The SAG-AFTRA National Executive Committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 9, overwhelmingly ratified the Corporate/Educational and Non-Broadcast successor agreement reached Dec. 20, 2022, with the industry bargaining group that traditionally negotiates this agreement.

The new, three-year 2022 SAG-AFTRA Corporate/Educational & Non-Broadcast Contract covers public relations, sales promotion and training films made for initial use to the general public, schools, conventions, seminars, museums, in retail stores and for internet use. It also covers audio-only content, such as telephone messages and audio used in consumer products.

“This is a smart agreement that serves the needs of the members working in this important area,” said SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher. “I congratulate the member negotiating committee and Lead Negotiator Ray Rodriguez for their dedication and hard work.”

“I congratulate the National Executive Committee on the ratification of this agreement. Our negotiating committee and Chief Contracts Officer and Lead Negotiator Ray Rodriguez brought back a strong deal with substantial gains for SAG-AFTRA members,” said SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland.

Highlights of the agreement include:

• A 12%  increase to minimum compensation effective Jan. 11.
• A 1.5%  aggregate increase to the employer contribution rate to the Health & Retirement Funds effective Jan. 11.
• New language requiring qualified hair and makeup artists that have proven experience working with all types of hair and skin, addressing an important concern particularly voiced by performers of color. 
• Boundaries on self-tape and live-remote audition requests and specific prohibitions on unreasonable or unsafe requests.
• Lasting cultural change through new standards for nude or partially nude work.
• New compensation model for work on interactive voice recording/phone prompt systems that reflects how the most successful performers in this space structure their fees.

The term of the agreement is Nov. 1, 2022, to Oct. 31, 2025, and upon ratification, provisions became effective retroactive to Nov. 1, 2022, except as otherwise provided.

About SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.