Residual and Agent Commission Reconciliation Agent

Actors get paid through agents, payroll companies and residual checks that arrive months after the work. Matching each payment to a booking is tedious, so errors slip by. Each month this agent reads payroll stubs, residual statements and the agent's commission statement, and matches every payment to a booking in your log. It recalculates commission at the agreed rate and checks residuals against expected airings when the production reports them. Payments that do not match go into a follow-up list. After matching, it checks that totals per job equal gross pay minus commission and withholding. If they do not, it recalculates by line and looks for split payments. It drafts questions to the agent or payroll company, but you send them. Edge case: commission should not be taken on some residuals, so it uses your contract terms per job.