SAG-AFTRA Collects $1 Billion In Member Dues & Non-Member Fees In Its First 10 Years As Membership Climbs To Record Highs
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA has collected more than $1 billion in dues and “agency fees” from its active members and financial core non-members since its founding 10 years ago with the merger of SAG and AFTRA, according financial reports the union files with the U.S.
Department of Labor.In a sign of their relative strengths at the time of their merger in 2012, the Screen Actors Guild had 129,092 active members and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists had 74,389 – many of whom were members of both unions.
In the 10 months preceding the merger, SAG collected $43,873,668 in dues and AFTRA collected $26,824,853.The entertainment industry’s largest union, SAG-AFTRA had a record 171,157 active dues-paying members as of April 30, 2022, the end of its last fiscal year.
That’s up by nearly 6,000 members from the year before.Even so, the $101.8 million in member dues and non-member “agency fees” it collected during the past year was down by more than $6 million from the prior year, largely because of dues extensions provided to members during the pandemic.
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