The shoot budget

The day being budgeted

Everything else is DEFAULT_DAY_POLICY — crew call 08:00, contract-policy OT line at 10h. The full schedule this prices is on the day plan page.

Budget switches

• Dataset technician$400band $250 · $400 · $600
• Media manager$400band $250 · $400 · $600
• Production technician$475band $340 · $475 · $600
• Lighting$675band $500 · $675 · $1,000
• Production assistant$250band $175 · $250 · $350
• Make-up artist$650band $450 · $650 · $1,000
• Security$350band $280 · $350 · $450Vendor invoice — already loaded, no payroll burden applied.
• Production manager$650band $450 · $650 · $900
• Media manager kit fee$225Equipment rental to a contractor, not wages — carries no payroll burden.
• Production technician kit fee$100Equipment rental to a contractor, not wages — carries no payroll burden.
• Make-up artist kit fee$225Equipment rental to a contractor, not wages — carries no payroll burden.
• Nevada payroll burden$875band $604 · $875 · $1,26325% on wages of W-2 crew. Sourced and Nevada-specific (23–27%). The legacy budget omits this entirely, which understates its own crew line by about a quarter.
• Overtime and replacement contingency$791band $577 · $791 · $1,097ASSUMPTION: 15% on the crew line, standing in for the legacy budget's explicit 1.5×/2× overtime ladder across 12–14 hour days.
• Talent coordinator$425band $300 · $425 · $600Pod role engagement (ADR-0056) — off campaign's costed eight-role day, so it never moves the feasibility guard.
• Wardrobe$475band $340 · $475 · $700Pod role engagement (ADR-0056) — off campaign's costed eight-role day, so it never moves the feasibility guard.
• Wardrobe kit fee$100Equipment rental to a contractor, not wages — carries no payroll burden. Pod role engagement (ADR-0056) — off campaign's costed eight-role day, so it never moves the feasibility guard.
• Nevada payroll burden — pod roles$225band $160 · $225 · $32525% on wages of W-2 crew. Sourced and Nevada-specific (23–27%). The legacy budget omits this entirely, which understates its own crew line by about a quarter. Pod role engagement (ADR-0056) — off campaign's costed eight-role day, so it never moves the feasibility guard.
• Overtime and replacement contingency — pod roles$184band $135 · $184 · $259ASSUMPTION: 15% on the crew line, standing in for the legacy budget's explicit 1.5×/2× overtime ladder across 12–14 hour days. Pod role engagement (ADR-0056) — off campaign's costed eight-role day, so it never moves the feasibility guard.
• Scheduled-OT premium, 105 min past the 10h contract dayestimate$1,210band $841 · $1,210 · $1,736The plan itself runs past the contract-policy threshold, so this overtime is scheduled, not contingent: 1.5× the pro-rated hourly of the costed day rates for W-2 crew (plus payroll burden on the premium), vendor lines at straight pro-rata, kit fees excluded. Sits on top of campaign's 15% contingency deliberately — that stands in for UNPLANNED overrun. Deal-memo convention, not NRS 608.

• Studio, 10-hour day$1,300band $700 · $1,300 · $1,950Low is a marketplace hourly cyc; high is a full stage with power, grid and parking included.
• Owned equipment: consumables, media, maintenance$325Owning removes the legacy budget's $2,300/day camera + lighting rental. It does not remove expendables, media, maintenance, or a tech to run the kit.
• Production insurance, amortised$208Annual DICE policy at ~$5,000 spread over an ASSUMED 24 shoot days. Cross-checks against the sourced 2–3%-of-budget rule of thumb.

• Kit still to buy — one-time capital$32,870band $26,400 · $32,870 · $40,410Crew's shopping list at street prices as of 2026-08-15. Capital, not a per-shoot cost — campaign's day deliberately carries only owned-kit running costs (consumables, media, maintenance, in Studio & day facilities) and never amortises the purchase.
• Rental instead — per-shoot alternativeestimatenot summed$1,315band $1,056 · $1,315 · $1,616ESTIMATE — renting the still-unowned kit for one shoot day at RENTAL_FRACTION (4% of purchase price/day, the midpoint of the rate-card construction campaign's research cites: cameras ~5%, LED 4%, grip 2%; no LV rental house publishes a card). An ALTERNATIVE to the capital line above, never added to it.
• Owned kit — replacement valuenot summed$0The figure an insurance schedule wants. Not a cost of this shoot; never summed.

• Car service (suv), 180 min of hotel ↔ studio legs$278The day plan's own transport slots at campaign's published as-directed hourly, plus 3% Nevada excise and the ASSUMED 20% gratuity — the same arithmetic as campaign's studioTransferCents, on the plan's real minutes instead of a flat 10h. Operator minimums (1–3h) may raise the real bill; no operator publishes a day rate.

• Crew and talent catering$8008 crew plus 3 model(s) at $50/head plus craft services. The user's estimate omits this line entirely.
• Dinner comps — Dinner at Catch, 2 head(s) × 3 model(s)$1,620Hosted (talent-funnel) mode: the entertainment comp reused from campaign's "Standard" package tier, per model on the day. Flights, hotel and per diem are the campaign package's own funded lines (packageCost) and are deliberately not restated here.

Informational lines (the rental alternative, the owned-kit replacement value) are shown for the decision they inform and are never in this figure.