Film Career · Casting Director
Voice Casting Director
Casting Director · Teamsters Local 399 (casting directors)
- Union
- Teamsters Local 399
- Day rate
- ~$3,000–$6,000/wk
- Experience
- 8–18+ yrs
What does a Voice Casting Director do?
A voice casting director leads within the casting director department, answering for its output while managing the people and logistics behind it.
On union productions the position falls under Teamsters Local 399 (casting directors), which sets the rates, hours, and conditions the role works within. Like every casting director role, the job is hired production by production, and repeat work comes from department heads who trust the name on the call sheet.
What does a Voice Casting Director make?
- This is a department-head chair, toward the top of its department's range.
- Casting directors are paid per feature or weekly: roughly $25K-$100K+ a project, $3,000-$6,000 a week, or roughly $80K-$250K a year (Teamsters Local 399 in the West).
Film work is gig based, so crew are paid a day or weekly rate rather than a salary. These are realistic 2024-2025 ranges grounded in union rate cards and industry data; actual pay swings with budget tier, market, overtime, and reputation.
Sources & how we estimate pay
Union scale is the floor; the ranges above also reflect market day rates above scale. They are grounded in the following 2024–2025 sources:
Union rate cards & wage schedules
Official guild scale — the floor each craft is paid from.
- IATSE — 2024 Basic Agreement wage scales (PDF) ↗
- IATSE Local 600 (International Cinematographers Guild) — camera rate cards ↗
- DGA — minimum salary rate cards (director, unit production manager, assistant directors) ↗
- WGA — schedule of minimums (writers) ↗
- SAG-AFTRA — theatrical & background rate sheets (cast, stunts, background) ↗
- Teamsters Local 399 — basic feature wage rates, 2024–27 (transportation, locations, wranglers) (PDF) ↗
Government wage data
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the closest federal occupation.
You’ll like and be good at this job if:
Hard skills
- You know talent and can negotiate deals
Soft skills
- You are as comfortable managing people as doing the craft
- You can lead a crew, hold a budget, and answer for the department
Career progression
The role advances the way most casting director careers do: repeat hires from the same department heads, growing responsibility within the craft, and a reputation that travels between productions faster than any resume.
How do you become a Voice Casting Director?
The path here is internal: the casting director department promotes this position from within, based on a track record built in its junior chairs. Start at the department's entry level and let the work argue for you.
On covered productions, rates, hours, and conditions for the role are set by Teamsters Local 399 (casting directors) contracts.
Covered by a union? The joining a film union guide explains how each one takes members.