Everyset

Managing the financial side of a production involves more than tracking the budget. Productions need to process payments to crew, vendors, and talent in a timely and organized way, maintain records of what was paid to whom, and handle the paperwork that comes with paying both employees and independent contractors. Everyset is a production payroll and payments platform built specifically for the entertainment industry, designed to handle the unique compliance requirements of film and television production payroll.

Entertainment production payroll is more complex than standard small business payroll. Crew members work under union agreements with specific minimum rates, overtime calculations, meal penalty provisions, and fringe benefit requirements that vary by union, agreement type, and jurisdiction. Everyset is built to handle these entertainment-specific payroll rules, including SAG-AFTRA, DGA, IATSE, and Teamsters agreements, without requiring the production to manually apply union contract calculations to each timecard.

For independent productions and smaller production companies that have historically processed payroll through a full-service payroll house like Cast and Crew or Media Services, Everyset offers a more accessible and technology-forward alternative. The platform is designed for the full range of production sizes, from micro-budget independents to mid-size commercial and television productions.

The integration between production payroll and budgeting is a natural workflow pairing. Knowing exactly what you are paying your crew in real time, and having that data flow accurately into your budget actuals, is the difference between a production that discovers it is over budget at wrap and one that knows its labor costs week by week. Everyset's data connects to Saturation's budget tracking, giving line producers a complete picture of actual labor costs against the approved budget.

As a Saturation partner, Everyset offers a discount to Saturation users through the perks program. Productions that need to process union or non-union payroll in a platform built for entertainment will find Everyset a more appropriate choice than generic payroll tools.

Access your Everyset discount through the Saturation Card perks portal. Set up your production company and individual production in Everyset. Add your crew with their union status, applicable agreement, and payment terms. Input timecards at the end of each shooting day or work week. Everyset calculates gross pay, overtime, meal penalties, and applicable union fringes automatically. Review and approve the payroll run, and Everyset processes direct deposits to crew and generates the required pay stubs and reports.