How common is Fi-core?
Thats a toughie. SAG reports that it is a very, very, small percentage, less than 2% of the total membership of SAG”. If you do a Google search of the term Fi-core or Financial Core, you will find hundreds of actor websites that promote this status on their resumes. It seems to be particularly prevalent in the voiceover community. LA Casting and Nowcasting have profile search options that include Fi-core. Clearly union membership nationwide is faltering. According to the US Dept of Labor, the private sector (not just entertainment unions) lost 369,000 union members in 2003 alone. Only 8.2% of all private sector workers belong to a labor union. It is commonly believed that the practice of financial core is growing, but perhaps not as quickly in the entertainment community as in other sectors of the workforce. SAG formed a Financial Core Task Force in 2007 which resulted in an immediate reduction in requests for Fi-core status. Several celebrities have declared financial core including J
