SDC Off-Broadway
Stage Directors & Choreographers Society Off-Broadway agreement, offered for Off-Broadway productions: minimum rates by job title, premiums, benefit contributions, dues, vacation and overtime for every rate set in force or scheduled.
Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, Off-Broadway agreement. It is offered for Off-Broadway productions.
On this union's rates, premiums are added to the rate: each one is its own pay line on top of the rate entered for the payee.
| Rate set | Status | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 → present | In force today | 5 |
SDC Off-Broadway minimums
The job titles a payee on this agreement can hold. None has a minimum on file in the rate set in force on Oct 21, 2026.
- SDC Off-Broadway titles with no minimum on file: Assistant Choreographer, Assistant Director, Associate Choreographer and Associate Director
- SDC Off-Broadway titles paid a negotiated fee and advance, with no minimum on file: Choreographer, Director and Director/Choreographer (see Fees, advances and royalties)
SDC Off-Broadway contributions
What the employer pays each fund on top of pay, in the rate set in force on Oct 21, 2026. Each fund's other rates, and how every rate is charged, are in the benefit contributions tables below.
- SDC Off-Broadway League Health Fund contribution: $282.00 per week (from Sep 1, 2026)
- SDC Off-Broadway League Pension Fund contribution: $215.00 per week (from Sep 1, 2026)
In force: Sep 1, 2026 → present
In force on Oct 21, 2026. A payroll uses this rate set when its pay period ends on or after Sep 1, 2026.
5 rules.
SDC Off-Broadway benefit contributions from Sep 1, 2026
Contributions the employer pays to the union's funds on top of pay. They are not deducted from the payee.
| Contribution | Applies to | Rate | How it is charged |
|---|---|---|---|
| League Health Fund | All titles | $282.00 per week | Every week; a daily-paid engagement bills the per-day rate instead |
| League Health Fund (per day) | All titles | $47.00 per day | Per paid day on a daily-paid engagement, in place of the weekly rate |
| League Pension Fund | All titles | $215.00 per week | Every week; a daily-paid engagement bills the per-day rate instead |
| League Pension Fund (per day) | All titles | $35.83 per day | Per paid day on a daily-paid engagement, in place of the weekly rate |
SDC Off-Broadway dues and deductions from Sep 1, 2026
Withheld from the payee's pay on every payroll and remitted to the union.
| Deduction | Applies to | Rate | Tax treatment |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDC Dues (SDC dues) | All titles | 3% of gross | Post-tax |
Related
- Union Studio Versions and Publishing: how a rate set is versioned, and which one a pay period uses
- Union Rate Reference: the document each rate comes from
- Payroll Calculations: what a payroll shows when its rate set hasn't yet been checked against the agreement, or steps mid-period
- Union rates: every agreement in this rate book
Rates as exported from Greenroom on Oct 21, 2026.
SDC Off-Broadway Developmental
Stage Directors & Choreographers Society Off-Broadway Developmental agreement, offered for Development productions: minimum rates by job title, premiums, benefit contributions, dues, vacation and overtime for every rate set in force or scheduled.
USA 829 Broadway
United Scenic Artists Local 829 Broadway agreement, offered for Broadway productions: minimum rates by job title, premiums, benefit contributions, dues, vacation and overtime for every rate set in force or scheduled.