Elevate Entertainment Payroll Services

Elevate Entertainment Payroll Services handles payroll for the production and entertainment industry, with a particular focus on background actors. It acts as employer of record, paying every extra on a production and returning pay runs within one to two days.

What Elevate Entertainment Payroll Services offers

• Background payroll — paying the extras and background performers used on a production.
• Employer of record service — the firm takes on the employer role for these workers.
• Fast turnaround — payroll completed in 24 to 48 hours.
• Management tools — tracking, reporting, data mining and administrator report creation.
• Rules handling — integration of country, state and union rules, conditions and tax requirements.

Who it works with

Its clients are film, television and music video productions, production studios and independent films.

Key facts

• Team experience: the payroll team reports more than 20 years in entertainment and production payroll
• Turnaround: 24 to 48 hours
• Year-end service: W-2 forms for background actors are mailed by post, with digital copies available on request