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Animation actors get new contract

By Richard Verrier

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SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) and Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) are getting a modest pay raise.

The Screen Actors Guild and the major studios have reached agreement on a new contract covering about 5,000 actors who provide voices for animated television shows.

The two-year contract, which is retroactive to June 10, is patterned on a deal the union negotiated earlier this year with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of the studios.

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The agreement includes annual raises of approximately 3% and establishes payments for shows that are distributed over the Internet, the guild said.

-- Richard Verrier

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Richard Verrier

Richard Verrier is investigations editor for Arts and Entertainment at the Los Angeles Times. He has been with The Times since 2001 and has run our Company Town since 2016. After stints at the St. Petersburg Times and the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, Verrier joined the paper as a reporter, and for many years covered all aspects of the entertainment industry before turning to editing. He oversees the Company Town coverage while working to guide and edit investigative and enterprise reporting across the entertainment team, collaborating with writers and editors from all departments. He is a native of Montreal and a graduate from the University of Toronto and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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