Hours and turnaround
Cast Hours Calculator
A whole cast's hours at once — call to dismissal, meal rules applied, overtime bands. Military time, no dates.
Calculation last checked
UBCP/ACTRA A1401. The first meal is unpaid and comes out of the day. The second is paid through as time worked, so it is reported and not deducted. Cast are UBCP performers, so this is their agreement rather than the crew one. Overtime bands are yours — no agreement here sets them.
Cast — military time, no dates
| Cast | MU/W | Call | Meal out | Meal in | Wrap | HMU wrap | Travel(min) | Worked | ST | 1.5× | 2× | Remove |
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Result
Enter a call and a wrap and the whole cast is totalled here.
Sources and method
A whole cast at once, laid out the way a cast time report already is: one row per performer, call through to dismissal.
The day starts at call, or at makeup and wardrobe when that is earlier. It ends at HMU wrap, because de-rig is still work. Leave HMU wrap blank and it falls back to cast wrap, and says so on the row.
UBCP/ACTRA BC Master Production Agreement 2025–2028, Article A1401 is applied — the performers’ agreement, because cast are UBCP performers and BCCFU is the crew council. The first meal period is unpaid and comes out of the day, and the second meal is paid through as time worked — so it is reported but not deducted. That one is worth knowing, because a tool that deducts a second meal quietly costs a performer half an hour or more.
The overtime bands are yours. No agreement here sets them. Eight and four are common defaults, not a rule, and the result says so.
Travel is reported separately and never enters worked time or the bands, because agreements treat it differently — one BC agreement caps out-of-zone travel at half an hour a day and another has no cap at all.
No dates. Military time, rolling forward on its own, and extended hours are accepted — a 1:30am wrap on a long night is 2530. Meals that themselves cross midnight are handled.
Nothing is rounded. Totals are shown in hours and minutes, as decimal hours, and in tenths rounded up for timecard entry — but which increment governs, and in which direction, is set by the agreement and by payroll, not by this tool.
The fourteen-hour flag — a day over fourteen hours gets a warning naming DGC BC 22.6(d): a crew member who works past fourteen hours and advises the employer they are too tired to drive home safely is entitled, on request, to courtesy housing or a round trip home at the employer’s expense. That is a crew clause; cast are UBCP performers and no equivalent is held here, so for a performer the warning is a prompt to raise it with production, not a citation on their behalf. It is the kind of right people do not know to ask for at hour fifteen.
Related guide
- How to calculate cast hours
Where the day starts, what comes out for meals, why travel is kept separate, and how a blank field changes the answer.