The most economical, precise, and easiest way to handle your crew payments and, in addition, avoid those sticky "independent contractor" questions.

What We Do

Trice Talent Services offers the most convenient, efficient, and accurate way for producers and production companies, ad agencies and in-house media divisions to make crew payments. Whether the crew you use is union or non-union, organizations can avail themselves of whomever they want and avoid the vast and arcane amount of paperwork and timely filings required by state and federal agencies and the IRS. As employer of record, Trice also keeps you away from those sticky questions about independent contractors that has cost companies millions of dollars in unpaid tax assessments.

The Free Lunch

When you use Trice, the invoice for your crew becomes a line item expense, not a costly employee liability. As such, you can pass our bill through to your client as a production cost,
and our service costs you nothing. In fact, it saves you time and money. For clients who are end users, Trice saves many hours of accounting costs and time to familiarize someone in your office with arcane rules, government compliance, and pay schedules for crew members.

We are the Employer

Trice becomes the employer of record for the crew you use. We save you hours of book keeping trying to keep up with the still unsettled and certainly unclear IRS regulations regarding employees as opposed to contract labor. If you had to pay the crew yourself, they would become an employee of your company - even though you might only use them for a single day in one year!  Not only would this demand you to adhere to strict payroll deadlines potentially subject you to
constant pressure and communication with the various unions, but it would require you to withhold FICA, Medicare and state and federal taxes. It would subject you to new workers compensation experience ratings (crew members are a high risk group), and make you responsible for unemployment
claims, filings, and the host of material they require employers to file each year. All this in an area that covers three jurisdictions for unemployment and state withholding . Needless to say, you would have to carry the crew on your books for th entire year, and have you send a W-2 at tax time.
Whew. Let us do it.

That Ain't All Folks

We pride ourselves on service. In today's world, that seems to have a hollow ring, but we are of the old school that believes in such things as returning phone calls, and, at once, being friendly and knowledgeable. We will be glad to give you bottom line figures based on the scale of the various crew members prior to production. This can help you project the costs your production for competitive bidding and cost estimation. We are the oldest, most knowledgeable and respected talent payroll service you can find.

Join Our List of Clients

One of the things that makes us most proud of our success is the variety of clients we serve. While we have been the payroll service of choice for 7 of the top 10 largest businesses in the Washington area, we also number scores of independent producers and one person shops in our list of valued clients.
Each of these clients gets personalized and individual attention and we devote all the time necessary to answer their questions and make them feel comfortable about paying their crew. TOP