Onboarding

A mother agent’s job is to develop and prepare models to work, not only in other markets, but with other agencies in other cities and/or other countries.

As your MA, Stetts will help develop your portfolio and your modeling career to send you out to other agencies in different markets when/if the time is right.

We pride ourselves in being incredibly model-friendly. There is a $200 annual fee for print model and a $100 fee for fitting models that covers your workers compensation and booking platform costs. We offer to make comp cards for you at a cost of $25, but that is optional. The main investment that we ask you to make is a photoshoot (which you pay directly to a photographer of your choosing) to build your portfolio. The first shoot should include a makeup artist and styling package for the best chance of success. 

No. If you would like to be submitted to other agencies, we can submit your materials for consideration.

What does an exclusive agreement mean? 

Being exclusive means that we are your only management/agency for print modeling (you can have an acting agent). This also means that you cannot submit yourself to bookings without our involvement, and you must involve the agency right away when approached directly by a client.

Manager’s commission is an agency standard of 20% for any jobs booked through Stetts. This is standard practice at all modeling agencies, as it enables us to pay employees, utilities, expenses, etc.

However, if a brand reaches out to you directly, we take a reduced 10% commission.

As a freelance worker, there is no way to gauge how much work a model will book from month to month. Please rest assured that all projects we get that you are the right fit for, we will be submitting you for. This is a constantly changing industry, so some weeks you may get 3 self-tape requests from us, and other weeks you may not hear from us at all- it really all depends on the projects we get, what the client is looking for, etc. We want all of our models busy and working, so we do our best to ensure that.

We currently do not have international offices, but we do work with agencies globally to place our models.

You will be submitted to projects when you match the specifications that they are looking for. We always keep in mind our model's goals (beauty clients, fitness etc) and work towards those. You can see a sample of the clients we work with on our website and IG profile. 

Manager’s commission is an industry standard of 20% for all Stetts bookings.

This is standard practice at all modeling agencies, as it enables us to pay employees, utilities, expenses, etc.

However, if a brand reaches out to you directly, we take a reduced 10% commission.

This is not to be confused with an Agency Fee, which is a separate fee the client pays to set up castings, complete their paperwork, billing etc  (Ie. Rate of $2000 + AF, means you will receive $1600 - the rate minus commission).

Payment terms are usually net 30-60 days, however, sometimes clients take longer than this to pay. Please know we do our best to ensure timely payments, and as soon as we receive payment from the client, we will send payment your way that Friday via bill.com.

To initiate your onboarding, please send your w9 form directly to our accounting department - [email protected], the form can be be downloaded from the IRS here. Just this once please use your personal address.

Once you have sent in your w9 you will shortly after receive an invitation from bill.com to connect your bank account, we cannot pay you until this is setup.

If you change address at any time, please let [email protected] know to update your file.

All payments must be be directed to Stetts, so always list your address on all documentation given to clients including any w9s or w2s as:

c/ Stetts Model Management, 1123 Broadway #1007, New York, NY 10010

To be clear the RESIDENTIAL address should be your personal address for tax calculation purposes.

However your MAILING address for your checks, should be the Stetts address listed above.

Once we receive payment from the client, we then disperse via bill.com electronically to your bank account within the following week.

A 20% agency commission is deducted from your gross fee(s) except in special circumstances.

SAG Payments we receive include our agency fee, therefor a 10% Agency Fee and your 10% Agency Commission will be deducted.

Payments received from clients for the week spanning Thursday - Wednesday, are processed on at the next Thursday for review and approval. Once approved by Friday, they are processed for payment and generally take 2-3 days to land in your bank account depending on your bank. Sometimes there maybe a small delay due to holidays and schedules.

If you ever have any questions about your payments, contact [email protected] directly. Our accounting department is the only one who can answer questions about payments once a booking is complete. 

Jobs run through a payroll company will have withholding taxes removed and reported on your annual w2.

All contractor payments will be reported on your annual 1099 sent from Stetts. (Individual/sole proprietor or single-member LLCs only).

If you are missing any payroll w2 forms, they usually can be easily retrieved online from the payroll company. Links to assist are as follows.

GEP Cencast, LLC - ep.com/mytaxform

Team Services - https://theteamcompanies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ESS-110119.pdf

Extreme Reach Payroll - https://ps.extremereach.com/w2-request/

Your yearly agency commission total that you have paid to Stetts will be reported to you in an email in January so you can claim on your taxes as an expense.