{"id":3490,"date":"2017-02-17T20:37:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T20:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afm47.org\/press\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2017-02-17T20:37:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T20:37:59","slug":"afm-releases-new-national-music-theater-prep-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afm47.org\/press\/afm-releases-new-national-music-theater-prep-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"AFM Releases New National Music Theater Prep Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2854\" src=\"https:\/\/afm47.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Update.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"110\" \/>Following a proposal from Locals 47 and 802, the AFM International Executive Board, pursuant to its authority under Article 3, Sections 9(b)-(e) of the AFM Bylaws, has approved a <strong>National Live Musical Theater music preparation minimum scale<\/strong>, applicable in the U.S. and Canada, to become effective on <span data-term=\"goog_336014021\">April 1, 2017<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This National Musical Theater Music Preparation scale is for live musical theater productions only, applicable in all locals of the US and Canada. It shall not apply to any other category of music prep services (e.g., symphonic, electronic media, miscellaneous, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Establishment of this scale stabilizes rates in an increasingly portable work environment and removes the incentive for producers or their agents located, or mounting a production, in a Local&#8217;s jurisdiction to engage music prep services in a different Local solely on the basis that a different Local may have lower music prep rates.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of this wage scale\u00a0may be accessed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/afm47.org\/user\/login\" target=\"_blank\">members section at afm47.org<\/a> (login required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a proposal from Locals 47 and 802, the AFM International Executive Board, pursuant to its authority under Article 3, Sections 9(b)-(e) of the AFM Bylaws, has approved a National Live Musical Theater music preparation minimum scale, applicable in the U.S. and Canada, to become effective on April 1, 2017. 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