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SIGDIV // RATESTHE 15-HOUR DAYNO SURGE PRICING

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buying content.

You are staffing a deployment. Two hourly rates, one 15-hour day, four rules. This page is the whole price book and the reason behind every number. Read it once and you can read any quote we ever send you.

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The Seats

Two hourly rates staff every crew.

Cameras run $300 an hour. Support runs $175. A day is 15 hours, one operational period, so a camera seat is $4,500 and a support seat is $2,625. The edit is in the rate. One person, one job, done before the period ends.

Seat 01 // Photographer

$4,500Per day · $300/hr × 15

One camera, one lens. The still record.

By midnight
100+ edited frames · timestamped
Carries
Photo only · never both lenses
Built for
Proof · claims · the frame that settles it
Never
Staged · posed · recreated
Seat 02 // Videographer

$4,500Per day · $300/hr × 15

The moving record, cut on scene.

By midnight
60–90 sec recap · 2–4 work clips · b-roll archive
Carries
Video only · never both lenses
Built for
Recap and reach · the story that moves
Never
Recreated · dramatized
Seat 03 // Social Media

$2,625Per day · $175/hr

Runs your channels from the scene, in real time. Your voice, our footage, posted while it matters.

Seat 04 // Writer

$2,625Per day · $175/hr

Captions, press copy, the after-action narrative. The words that carry the frames.

Seat 05 // Media Liaison

$2,625Per day · $175/hr

PIO support on scene. Manages the press so command does not have to.

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The Four Rules

Four rules move the number.
Nothing else does.

Rule 01 // The Day

Seats times days

A day is 15 hours, one operational period. Add the seats, multiply by the days. The record delivers before the period ends.

Rule 02 // The Distance

Getting there and back

Deployments of three days or more bill one crew day rate for mobilization and demobilization. Half out, half back. Two days or less, we rough it out.

Rule 03 // The Nights

Past 48 hours, full deployment

More than one night and it runs as a full deployment: command trailer with Starlink, power, HVAC, trucks, side-by-side. $7,850 a day, sleeps four. Per diem joins, $250 per person per day. Self-contained, so we never draw down local resources.

Rule 04 // The Headcount

Past four, the kit

Past four deployed, the kit rolls: a bunk trailer sleeping up to ten, $2,500 a day, and a four-stall bathroom trailer, fully serviced, $4,500 a day. Sleep, shower, shave. Past ten deployed is a custom scope.

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The Math, Worked

Two quotes, read line by line.

Every line traces to a rule. Here is the smallest quote we write and one with every rule firing.

Quote A // The Blue-Sky Day

One photographer.
One day.

Crew · 1 photographer × 1 dayRule 01 // The Day
$4,500
Under 48 hoursNo camp · no mob · no per diem
$0
TotalHome by dark · crew rate only
$4,500
Quote B // The Hurricane

Five deployed.
Four days.

Crew · $20,625/day × 4 daysRule 01 // 2 photo + 2 video + 1 liaison
$82,500
Mobilization + demobilizationRule 02 // one day rate
$20,625
Per diem · 5 people × 4 daysRule 03 // full deployment
$5,000
Deployment package × 4 daysRule 03 // past one night
$31,400
Bunk trailer × 4 daysRule 04 // sleeps up to ten
$10,000
Bathroom trailer × 4 daysRule 04 // four-stall, serviced
$18,000
TotalEvery rule, on the table
$167,525

Same rules, your crew. Run your own numbers below, or print the rate sheet.

What To Expect

From the call to the record.

01 // Before

A straight answer, fast

Any hour, any day. Stand-by partners deploy first. The rate is the rate, blue sky or black sky. We do not price chaos.

02 // On Scene

On the incident's clock

We integrate with command and work to the IAP. Nothing staged, ever. The record delivers every operational period, edited, before it ends.

03 // After

The record is yours

Full rights, forever, no licensing meter. We never publish the work we were trusted with. You decide if it is ever seen.

The Builder

Build your deployment.

Same seats, same four rules. Every creator carries one lens. Your crew, your days, your number.

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Custom // Yours
Photo creators$4,500 a day · 100+ edited frames
1
Video creators$4,500 a day · recap, clips, b-roll
1

Support · $2,625 a day, each

Social media specialistPosting from the scene, in real time
WriterCaptions, press copy, after-action
Media liaisonPIO support · press on scene
Days on sceneTwo days or less, we rough it out
1

Crews run up to ten deployed. Past ten is a custom scope.

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