Question about acting guilds?

Question:Are there any well-known actors that are not members of any unions or guilds? Can someone link me to a list? I know there are tons of actors and actresses that are not, but I would like to know about well-known ones. THanks!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Are there any well-known actors that are not members of any unions or guilds? Can someone link me to a list? I know there are tons of actors and actresses that are not, but I would like to know about well-known ones. THanks!

All major working actors are in the guild's it's required to work.

Prior to SAG they used to work, for example, dancers in film for 16 hours a day for $5 in pay per day. Today they get $600 for the first 8 hours, $112.50 for each additional hour to 10 hours and then $150 per hour after 10 hours, with a maximum work day of about 14 hours. So that figures out to $1450 per day for an overtime shoot today, plus they get residual benefits for the life of the production scaling down from 90% to 10% after 10 years and payments for new use and re-use. (Non-union dancers in MTV videos get anywhere from $50 to $300 flat for the days work.)

A single day of work over 10 years can make you $2,500.

Side street or 99 seat theater pays as little as $300 a week, while big city union productions pay $2,000 a week for the same work. I'm talking the rank and file actor. Major players get far more.

Someone with 10 lines in a Broadway show is making $2,000 minimum per week for the run of the show or until they quit.

Big actors with popularity don't need the unions, their agents get them upwards to $20 million a picture paid out of 10 years.

The unions were designed for the smaller actors. They were designed to pay them enough to eventually live on in a business where you might only get 2 or 3 union jobs a year. It also gets them health care and pension if they do enough work per year.

A friend of mine gets one to three days work here and there, but after 20 years he's now making over $20,000 a year in residuals from those TV shows and movies plus another $4,000 a year in new income.

That's how little a small actor with 20 years in show business makes and it's the union that makes it for him. If producers had their way they'd pay him $200 flat for one day or work and nothing further.

Non-union extras get $7.50 an hour or about $50 a day for 8 hours. In New York they get NO OVERTIME for work past 8 hours, because NY does not have a daily overtime law only a weekly. A union extra makes $125 for the first 8 hours and MUST be paid $24 for 9 and 10 and $30 for hours over 10, even in New York. Los Angeles has daily overtime rules so non-union extras make $11 for 8 and 9 and $15 for 10+

Union rules and scales are done to make sure everyone is given a fair break and paid equally in all locations.

Union actors HAVE to get a meal every 6 hours, HAVE to get a dressing room or trailer and don't have to do any work the actor (and the union) considers dangerous.

The fees to join the union (over $2,000 in one payment) were designed to keep those who weren't serious out.

Even politicians have to join the unons, Huckabee, Clinton, Obama can't go on Oprah or Leno without an AFTRA card and they make the same pay Tom Cruise makes, $550 a show.

Why is this i mportant to you?