Submit your payroll
in one click.
Reverie is the W-2 employer of record for the musicians on your date — AFM scale, pension, health & welfare, and session reporting handled. And we are the only music payroll company built into Rhapsody, so the session you already booked becomes the payroll we run.
Stage 7 — Scoring Session
42 musicians · AFM Local 47Session wages
$84,320
Pension & health / welfare
$12,648
Cartage & doubling
$3,240
Employer taxes
$7,158
Total cost of employment
$107,366
Received. We pay, remit, and file from here.
Built into Rhapsody, end to end
Every other music payroll company starts with a file you have to produce. We start with the work you already did in Rhapsody.
Build the session like you always do
Set the instrumentation, hire the players, confirm the calls, set the scale sheet. Your roster, sessions, and budget are already there.
Hit submit
No export. No spreadsheet. No re-keying 42 names into a payroll portal. The payroll you already built comes straight to us.
Paid, remitted, filed
W-2 payroll runs, your players are paid by direct deposit, pension and health & welfare go to the funds, work dues go to the local, and the filings are ours.
Everything a music payroll has to get right
One date or a full season of dates — a single scoring session, a record, or a run of episodic cues.
W-2 employer of record
We employ the musicians on your date, so the filings and the employment liability sit with us — not with your production or your contracting entity.
AFM scale, calculated properly
Session rates under the applicable agreement, with doubling, overdubbing, overscale, cartage, premiums, and overtime worked out the way the agreement reads.
Pension, health & welfare
Employer contributions calculated on the correct wage base and remitted to the AFM funds on schedule, with reporting the funds accept.
Session reporting
B-forms and session reports generated from the same data that ran the payroll, so what you file and what you paid always agree.
Onboarding your players do once
Digital W-4, I-9, state forms, and direct deposit. A few minutes per musician, once a tax year, reused across every date you book.
Multi-state and loan-outs
Withholding per work state for players travelling to a date, plus loan-out corporations processed alongside your W-2 roster.
The union side is the whole point
Agreement rules are applied in the same run that produced the pay, so your session reporting and your payroll never disagree. We work across the theatrical and television scoring agreements, sound recording, and the low budget and independent variants — send us the agreement and the local and we will confirm the specifics before you book the date.
Session rates per agreement
Doubling and overdubbing
Cartage and instrument premiums
AFM pension and health & welfare
B-form and session reporting
New use, reuse, and special payments
Work dues to the local
Overtime and overscale
Payroll that speaks session
Reverie comes out of Rhapsody, the platform orchestras, scoring contractors, and studios already use to hire and pay musicians. That changes how the whole thing runs.
Export a spreadsheet, email it over, wait for someone to key it in
One click from the session you already built in Rhapsody
Your hiring roster and your payroll roster drift apart
Same roster, same sessions, same numbers — one data set
AFM rules bolted on as manual overrides after the fact
Agreement rules applied in the run that produced the pay
Sub swapped in at the downbeat? Fix it in two places
Replacements flow through to payroll automatically
A ticket queue, and a callback next week
A person who knows what a doubling is, same day
Tell us about your next date
Send the dates, the locals, and the AFM agreement involved. We will come back with a quote and exactly what onboarding your players looks like. Setting up an account does not commit you to a payroll.
Monday–Friday, 8:00am–6:00pm Pacific
California, USA
Questions we get asked
Rhapsody already holds your roster, your work sessions, your attendance, and your Budget & Payroll sheet. When you submit, that data comes to Reverie directly — there is no export, no emailed spreadsheet, and nothing re-keyed. We run the payroll from the same numbers you approved.
Music is our focus, and AFM-covered dates are what we are built for — scoring, sound recording, video game and trailer scores, commercials, and live dates. We also run non-union music sessions. We are not taking on work under the other entertainment unions right now; if your production needs that too, tell us and we will be straight with you about what we cover.
We regularly run dates under the theatrical and television film scoring agreements, sound recording, and the low budget and independent variants, along with video game, trailer, and commercial work. Send us the agreement and the local you are working under and we will confirm the specifics before you book the date.
Yes. Employer contributions are calculated on the correct wage base and remitted to the AFM funds on the required schedule, with the reporting the funds accept. Work dues are withheld and remitted to the local, and every musician has a per-date audit trail.
You set the call, the studio, and the downbeat, which generally makes session work employment rather than independent contracting. Paying it on a 1099 leaves you exposed to reclassification, back taxes, penalties, and unpaid fund contributions. As employer of record we take that on, and your players get proper wage statements, unemployment coverage, and workers' compensation.
No. Reverie runs as a standalone music payroll service and we will take your roster and session data in whatever format you already keep it. The one-click path removes work when you do use Rhapsody, but it is not a requirement.
Payments go out by direct deposit on the pay cycle we agree with you, and we will confirm the cutoff for your first run when we set up your account. If you are working against a delivery date, tell us the date and we will tell you what is achievable before you commit.
Pricing depends on the size and frequency of your dates and the agreements involved. Send us the shape of your work and we will come back with a quote.