Earnings

Earnings is a row in the left navigation of your judging screens, between Inbox and Profile. It opens one screen covering every festival you judge for: what your approved scorecards have come to, what festivals have recorded paying you, what is still outstanding — and, for the places you hold as a volunteer, a record of the work with no money on it.

FilmScorecard does not pay you. No money moves through the platform — no transfer and no payout account. Festivals pay their judges the way they always did, outside FilmScorecard, and record it here afterwards. What this screen shows you is those records, read from your side — and the invoices you have sent them.

This page covers the Earnings screen itself. The per-season statement it links to — the printable document a festival's coordinator reads too — has its own page: Your pay statement. Sending a festival an invoice from that statement is on Sending an invoice.

Paid and volunteer are per place, not per festival

Everything on this screen is organised around your place on one season — one row on a festival's roster, with its own terms. That matters because paid and volunteer are now a property of the place rather than of the season: a festival that pays its judges can invite one of them as a volunteer, and a judge can apply to a paying call as a volunteer.

So:

• Two places you hold at the same festival can be different. A paid place on one season and a volunteer place on another sit on two different tabs of this screen, with the same festival name on both.
• Nothing here tells you what anybody else agreed. A volunteer place says your work carries no payout; it never says whether the judge beside you is being paid for the same round.
• The tab a place lands on is decided by that place, not by the festival and not by the season.

Where those terms came from is on your invitation, or on the application you sent — see Your invitations and Applying to an open call.

Finding it

• The row is there for any judge with a place. It appears once you hold at least one accepted place on any season — paid or volunteer. A judge who only ever volunteers gets it too; their record is the Volunteer tab. With no place anywhere the row is absent, not greyed out, and the address gives "page not found".
• Being paused does not take it away. A festival that has paused you, or a season that has closed, still owes what it owes. Only being removed from a season's roster ends it — that place drops out of every figure and every tab, and the festival's own copy of your statement becomes the durable record.
• The quiet number on the row is your outstanding balance — $96.00, across every festival. It folds your paid places only; a volunteer place contributes nothing to it, whatever season it is on. It is not an alert, just a fact, and it disappears entirely at $0.00.
• The address is:

/judge/earnings

The old Your pay row's address, /judge/pay, forwards here permanently — old bookmarks keep working.

Signed out, you land on the log-in screen. With an unfinished judge profile you are sent to finish it first — see Setting up your judge profile — and without the current Judge Code of Conduct agreed, you are shown that first — see The Judge Code of Conduct. The sidebar is the one every judging screen carries, the Your festivals list included, and the festival switcher along the top is there too — reading Your festivals with nothing highlighted, because nothing here belongs to one festival; picking a festival from it opens that festival's judging home.

The heading and the three figures

Under the Earnings heading, a monospace line sizes the whole record — "12 scorecards filed, 9 approved, 3 festivals since 2025". Filed counts everything you have filed, volunteer work included; the year is when you accepted your first place.

Then three cards:

Three rules behind the numbers:

• Outstanding only counts what is positively owed. If one festival has overpaid you, that credit is never subtracted from what other festivals owe you. Instead the Outstanding card grows an amber footnote — "1 season overpaid by $12.00. The credit stays with that festival and is never subtracted from what others owe you." A credit usually settles itself as more of your work on that season is approved.
• Approved but unpriced work is excluded from every figure, and reported instead: when any of your approved scorecards on a paid place has no rate on record, a quiet amber line joins the cards — "3 approved scorecards awaiting pricing". Those scorecards show an em dash where their rate would be, on this screen and on the statement, and nobody can price them after the fact — if you believe one should have been paid, ask the festival.
• Volunteer work never enters the money. A scorecard filed on a volunteer place is not in Outstanding, not in Awaiting approval, and carries no rate anywhere on your side — it is counted on the Volunteer tab, and that is the whole of it. It is never in the "awaiting pricing" line either, which is about paid work nobody priced, not about work that was never going to be paid.

The five tabs

One table card with five tabs, each carrying its count: Scorecards, Payments, Statements, Invoices, Volunteer. The screen opens on Scorecards.

Your search and filters follow you from tab to tab; the sort does not. Filter to one festival on Scorecards and Payments is filtered to it too. Switching tabs puts the new tab back in its own default order.

Every table works the same way at every window width: it scrolls sideways rather than restacking. The heading row stays pinned to the top, the row number and the identifying column stay pinned to the left, and the scroll region takes keyboard focus so the right-hand columns can be reached without a mouse. Click a column heading to sort by it; click it again to reverse.

Scorecards

One row per scorecard of yours that a festival has approved, filed on a paid place. Work you have filed that is still waiting on a reviewer is the amber count above, not a row; work filed on a volunteer place is on the Volunteer tab and never here, whatever season it was on.

No film titles, here or anywhere on this screen. Your earnings record is about money, not about which films you scored. If you need to point a festival at one line, quote the SC- number together with the category and the dates — the number is this screen's permanent name for that scorecard, and the rest is what the festival's own ledger groups by.

Sorting by Rate puts unpriced scorecards after every priced one.

Payments

One row per payment any festival has recorded against you, newest first.

A voided payment stays on the list, struck through and drawn quieter, and counts toward nothing — not the Paid figure, not the footer total, not your balance. Festivals void a payment to correct a mistake — logged against the wrong judge, entered twice. The reason is not shown to you; if a void needs explaining, ask the festival.

(The formal pay statement leaves voided payments off entirely — this tab is the one place on your side that shows one.)

Statements

One row per paid place you hold — including places where nothing has happened yet, which read a quiet Nothing payable.

The rows open newest accepted first. This tab is also the answer to judging for two festivals at once: every paid place is here, one View statement each — no more reaching the second festival's statement by typing its address.

A volunteer place has no statement and is never listed here. There is nothing to owe, so there is no document — its record is the Volunteer tab.

Invoices

One row per invoice you have sent, to any festival, newest first — see Sending an invoice.

A returned or withdrawn invoice is drawn quieter than the rest. With nothing sent, the tab reads "No invoices yet."

Open an invoice to act on it. While it is Sent, Withdraw is there; a returned one carries the festival's note.

Volunteer

One row per place you hold as a volunteer: the festival, the season with the word volunteer after it — "Winter 2026 Season, volunteer" — how many scorecards you have filed there and how many have been approved, and the words "Volunteer, no pay".

This is a list of your places, not of volunteer festivals. A festival that pays its other judges appears here for the place you hold as a volunteer, and appears on the Statements tab for any paid place you hold with the same festival. Nothing on either row says anything about the other.

There are no rate or money columns, deliberately. A volunteer place is owed nothing, there is no statement to open, and no figure — not even $0.00 — is printed against the work. The festival's own ledger does record a $0.00 against each approved card, so their side can group and total it honestly; that number is bookkeeping on their end and there is nothing on your side it would tell you. This tab is the record that the work happened.

Searching and filtering

The toolbar above the table:

• Search matches what you can read on the rows of the current tab — the SC- number, the category, a payment's reference or method, the festival and season names. Not amounts and not dates. It filters as you type; the ✕ inside the box clears it.
• Festival and Season are multi-select filters. Each lists every festival or season you hold a place at — including ones with nothing on the current tab, at a count of 0, so "no rows here" never looks like "no filter". Each has its own search box and a Select all row; a search matching nothing names what you typed and offers Clear search.
• The counts beside the options never move as you tick boxes. They are measured over the whole of the current tab, so they tell you what a filter would find rather than measuring your own filter back at you.
• Clear filters appears as soon as anything is set.

There is no paid-or-volunteer filter. The tabs are that division already.

The moment the two filters would run onto a second line — and always on a phone — they collapse behind a single Filters button carrying a count of what is set. On a phone the table's card runs to the edges of the screen, the toolbar is one line, and the tabs are one line too; if they do not fit, swipe them sideways.

None of it is kept. Search, filters, the tab and the sort are working state: they reset when you reload, they are not in the address, and there is no link that opens the screen pre-filtered.

The footer line

Under every table, one line states exactly what you are looking at — "9 of 54 approved scorecards. 1 festival, all seasons. Sorted by Approved, newest first." — and, where the tab has money, what the visible rows add up to: Rates in view on Scorecards, Payments shown (unvoided only) on Payments, Earned in view on Statements. The Invoices and Volunteer tabs carry no total.

One quirk of the Statements and Volunteer tabs: their default order — by when you accepted each place, newest first — is not a column. Once you sort by a heading there is no heading to click to get the default back; leave the tab and return and it is restored.

When a tab is empty

• Your filters matched nothing — the block names the tab, reminds you "Your work at other festivals is still here", and offers Clear filters. You are never shown a bare empty table when it is your filter that emptied it.
• Nothing there yet — each tab explains itself: Scorecards points out that scorecards appear once a festival approves them and that the amber count above is work already filed; if you hold any volunteer places it also points you at the Volunteer tab, where that work actually is.

Dates on this screen

Filing, approval and void dates are shown as calendar dates in universal time, which can sit a day off from your local clock. Date paid is different — it is the calendar date the festival typed when recording the payment, shown exactly as they wrote it.

Who can see this

• Only you see this screen. It is your own record across festivals; no festival sees the whole of it, because no festival is owed the others' numbers.
• Each festival's staff see their own season's part of it — the same scorecards, payments and balances, from the season's pay ledger on their side. They also hold what you are not shown: voided payments' reasons, who recorded each payment, and receipts and notes.
• No other judge sees any of it, and none of theirs reaches you — no season totals, no averages, no other name anywhere. Including whether they are paid: a judge on a paying season sees nothing about their volunteer colleagues, and a volunteer sees nothing about the paid ones.

What this screen does not do

• Send an invoice from here. Invoices are sent from a season's statement — View statement, then Send invoice — and this screen lists them. There is no reminder to a festival before or after a due date.
• Show a payout or bank account. None exists in FilmScorecard. How a festival pays you is between you and them.
• Let you change anything. Every figure here belongs to the festival that owns the season. Nothing is editable, and nobody is notified when you look.
• Turn a volunteer place into a paid one. Nothing on your side can, and nothing on the festival's side can either once you have accepted — a fresh invitation is the only route, and it makes a new set of terms rather than editing yours.
• Tell you when most things change. No email and no inbox notice is sent when work is approved, an ordinary payment is recorded, or one is voided. The screen is a page you open, not a message that arrives. Your invoices are the exception: you are emailed when a festival returns one, with its note, and when it records a payment against one.
• Download or export. There is no CSV and no all-festivals PDF. Printing happens one season at a time, from the statement — View statement, then Download PDF there.
• Name a film. Not on this screen. The statements and invoices it opens do carry a Scorecards page listing each approved film by title.

If something looks wrong

A dispute goes to the coordinator of the festival that owns the season, through the Messages tab of your inbox. The people who run that season read the same records you do, so point at the SC- number or the payment in question.

Worth checking before you write:

• Filed is not approved. Work waiting on a reviewer is the amber count, not a row and not money.
• Unpriced is reported, never paid. An em-dash rate means no rate was on record when you filed — it is the festival's to explain.
• Volunteer is not unpriced. Work on a volunteer place was never going to carry a figure; it is on the Volunteer tab and in none of the totals, and that is the arrangement rather than a gap. If you expected that place to be paid, the thing to check is your invitation — or the application you sent, if you joined through an open call — because that is where the terms were set.
• A credit does not move between festivals. One season's overpayment never reduces another's debt; Outstanding can be higher than you expected for exactly that reason.
• Your rates are on your invitation, category by category — see Your invitations. A rate here that does not match one of them is a real question worth asking.
• A season you were removed from disappears entirely — from the figures and every tab. If you are leaving a paid season, print its statement before the coordinator removes you.

Related guides

• Your pay statement — the per-season document behind View statement: what it holds line by line, printing it, and who else reads it.
• Sending an invoice — turning a statement into an invoice, and what each status on the Invoices tab means.
• Your invitations — the offer you accepted, with every category's rate, or the line saying it carries none. What your scorecards recorded starts there.
• Applying to an open call — the other way a place gets its terms, including the choice to apply as a volunteer.
• Scoring a film — filing a scorecard, which is the moment its rate is recorded.
• Messaging festival staff — how to reach the coordinator a dispute belongs to.
• Your judging home — the screen you work from, and the rest of the navigation this row sits in.
• Your account — everything about you rather than about the money.