Production Value

Working Conditions in Austria

Permits

Austria is part of the EU. No special permits (including for the Swiss) needed.

Working Hours

40 hours a week / 5 days a week / 8 hours a day or
60 hours a week / 5 days a week / 12 hours a day or
6 days a week / 10 hours a day
Lunch break is 30 to 60 minutes
Turnaround is 11 hours
If shooting takes place outside the city, working hours start at the boarder of the city.

Overtime

First two hours overtime are 50%, after that 100%
Working hours before 6:00 and during nighttime are 100%
Working hours on a Saturday are 100% after the 5th hour
Sundays and Holidays are 100%.

In German only, the standard Austrian contract.

Rates

Please refer to the enclosed PDF:

Weekly 40 hours
Weekly 60 hours
Monthly (more than 3 months only)

In the 40h/week-table as well as in 60h/week-table, we would recommend to take the "inkl. SZ und Url.Abf." column. In Austria, it's common that employees get paid 14 monthly salaries, a double salary in June and one in December. This is called "SZ" (Sonderzahlungen). Furthermore, every employee is entitled to get at least 5 weeks of vacation. Since there is no opportunity to go on holidays during a tight production-schedule, film crew members get paid for non-consumed holidays. This is meant by "Url.Abf." (Urlaubsabfindung --> compensation for not consumed holidays).

Fringes

All of the crew members stated in the "Kollektivvertrag" have to be employed by the production company. Freelance agreements are actually not accepted (even if they occur once in a while). Since payroll accounting in Austria is kind of a science, the 24% flat-rate for fringes is an approximation but alright for budgeting purposes.

Allowances

Travel allowance (for more than 3 hours work outside the office but in the same town where the company is based) is still € 13, for work outside the city € 26,40.

For work outside Austria.

Compensation for travelling with private car is € 0,42/km up to 15.000, above € 0,395/km.