How Much Money To Replace Hollywood Star

This story showtime appeared in the Oct. 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

FILM STAR
How bad is the refuse in actor salaries over the past decade? Despite the huge sums even so existence raked in by such superstars as Robert Downey Jr. (his $75 meg comes from his 7 percent, first-dollar piece of Atomic number 26 Man 3, as well equally his $12 million HTC endorsement bargain) and Sandra Bullock (a 15 pct, starting time-dollar deal on Gravity and about $10 one thousand thousand more for her summer hit The Heat), well-nigh actors are feeling a definite squeeze, specially those in the middle.

"If you're [a big star], you're getting well paid," says ane top amanuensis, "but the middle level has been cut out." Sometimes with a hacksaw. Leonardo DiCaprio made $25 million (including bonuses) for The Wolf of Wall Street, while co-star Jonah Loma got paid $lx,000. Granted, that's an extreme example — Hill offered to do the part for calibration (and got an Oscar nomination for his trouble).

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Merely studio price-cutting has meant that mid-level stars are being nickel-and-dimed in ways that would have been unheard of in the aureate '90s (i.e., Marvel Studios' reportedly offering Mickey Rourke a mere $250,000 to star contrary Downey in Iron Homo 2). Before breaking out the violins, though, recollect that even mid-level stars are far better off than most other actors. According to the most contempo SAG statistics, the average fellow member earns $52,000 a yr, while the vast majority take home less than $one,000 a year from interim jobs.

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AGENT $200K-$10M
Like everyone in Hollywood, the talent agencies have been tightening their belts. "Your biggest business used to be, 'Would I get a $100,000 bonus or a $200,000 bonus?' " recalls one veteran agent wistfully. "Ha! Things have inverse." Those bonuses notwithstanding happen, they only require a hot client (or 5). CAA by and large pays more WME, UTA, Gersh, ICM and Paradigm, nonetheless salaries increasingly are tied to what an agent brings in. And an agency will overpay to lure a top amanuensis (and his clients). Generally speaking, though, starting agents can wait to earn $50,000 to $65,000; more senior agents brand around $200,000; partners make $400,000 to $700,000; and lath members — like CAA'south Bryan Lourd and WME's Patrick Whitesell and Ari Emanuel — tin can earn as much as $10 million. In rare circumstances, bonuses based on client earnings can turn mid-level agents into $i million-a-year employees. In short, top talent breeds top salaries. Tracey Jacobs at UTA is said to exist earning upwards of $9 million — and she reps Johnny Depp.

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Agent'Due south Banana $10-$xiii AN HOUR

At most agencies, you beginning in the mailroom, hope an assistant's desk opens upward, then dream of ascending the assistant ladder and then you tin can be on the receiving end of middle-of-the-night email rants from top agents. At CAA, though — where Richard Lovett has five assistants and Kevin Huvane has four — you lot start equally an assistant and movement up to the mailroom agent-preparation program.

Animate being ACTOR $5K-$108K

Crystal the monkey earned $108,000 in 2012 for appearing in nine episodes of NBC's Animal Practice. That'south more than virtually of the below-the-line talent featured in this story and twice as much as the average player, who earns $52,000, according to SAG-AFRTA. But nearly animals piece of work for peanuts: The day rate for a dog or cat in Hollywood is $400, with most earning $v,000 to $10,000 a twelvemonth.

Crystal the monkey

CINEMATOGRAPHER

$5K-$30K A WEEK

Peak directors of photography, of which there are probably about 10 to 15 in the industry, can command $25,000 to $30,000 a week on movies that shoot up to 12 weeks — maybe fifty-fifty a little more, according to insiders. That select circumvolve of top cinematographers would include 11-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins, Gravity University Accolade winner Emmanuel Lubezki and Martin Scorsese's frequent collaborator Robert Richardson. On a big-budget studio moving-picture show — say, $80 meg or more than — an experienced cinematographer tin expect to earn $10,000 to $xx,000 a week. On a depression-budget indie fare, DPs often have dwelling house $2,000 to $5,000 a week. On TV productions, the range is $5,000 to $8,000 a week.

FILM DIRECTOR $250K-$20M A Motion-picture show
"The middle range doesn't exist anymore," one studio executive says of the current financial landscape for feature motion-picture show directors. "Either you're paying for a modernistic principal, or you're paying a lot less. The days of paying $3 million or $4 1000000, knowing they're just doing the job, that doesn't be."

The going rate for mod masters? Between $7 meg and $10 1000000 for auteurs like Paul Greengrass and Ridley Scott, more if the motion-picture show is considered a tentpole. Christopher Nolan is said to take made $xx million against twenty percent of gross for Interstellar. Backend is otherwise rare these days for the non-A-list.

On the other end of the calibration, emerging directors tin look $250,000 to $500,000 for their first large studio feature, but there are exceptions (ane European auteur was said to have recently have been paid $1 1000000 for his first Hollywood blockbuster).

Tv set DIRECTOR $25K-$42K AN EPISODE
Television receiver directors, of form, are an entirely different species, and get paid in a different mode. The base of operations DGA rate is $25,145 for a half-60 minutes episode and $42,701 for an 60 minutes. But different writers, directors sometimes helm all 22 episodes of a season — information technology's only too much work. Only some large-name pilot directors (David Nutter, Jason Winer and Pam Fryman) go an executive producer credit and a stake in the bear witness, which is how Bryan Singer is said to take made tens of millions for directing the pilot of House M.D.

Amusement LAWYER $2M-$6M
Maybe more than, if you're Skip Brittenham, who is rumored to take home $10 million a year. Later a exercise builds up, a lawyer tin receive thirty percent of what the firm earns from his or her clients. With a big enough list, that easily can add together up to millions. But fifty-fifty first-year attorneys can do OK, earning $135,000 to $165,000 (enough to pay off police schoolhouse).

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EXTRA $148 A Solar day
Just there'south a "bump" of $50 a day for wearing a hairpiece, or if yous're working in challenging conditions (rain, smoke). There's besides overtime — a full day of pay for every hour after 16 hours — which has been known to happen on movie sets.

GAME SHOW HOST $1M-$10M
Quiz masters make between $25,000 a week (for a syndicated show) to upward of $75,000 a week (for a primetime program). Unless, of class, you're Alex Trebek, Jeopardy!'s 30-year host — in which case you lot have home the $ten million-a-year jackpot.

LATE-NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST $3M-$30M
Late dark's contempo round of musical chairs hasn't changed the pay all that much — unless y'all're Stephen Colbert, said to be in line to earn a bit more than as David Letterman's replacement on CBS than the $fifteen million a year he gets from Comedy Central. The Daily Prove's Jon Stewart remains the elevation earner at $25 one thousand thousand to $xxx million a year. Jimmy Fallon is said to be making a trivial less annually than Jay Leno's$15 million for hosting The Tonight Show (and a lot less than the $25 million Leno made before he took a pay cut). And Seth Meyers barely tin afford an applause sign at $3 1000000.

Managing director $250K-$300K
Bonuses are the name of the game in the management business organisation. They're tied to commissions — one big client can be worth millions. Starting managers make $50,000 to $threescore,000 and are expected to bring in two to iii times their pay in commissions. Superlative partners can pull in seven figures. And unlike agents, managers can produce projects, bringing in additional fees.

NETWORK TV PRESIDENT $2M-$3M
The usual base salary for running the entertainment division of a major broadcast network is $2 meg, but a $three million base is not unheard of. And bonuses can double that salary. Still, says one sometime network president: "It'southward non like these are jobs people lust after — they're too hard. The really fun jobs are running cable networks, a job like head of programming at AMC, because you have more opportunity to be creative."

PORN STAR $120K

That'south what an "average" porn star makes in a twelvemonth, according to Joanne Cachapero of the Free Voice communication Coalition, the closest matter adult picture show has to a lodge. Large-name female performers — what Cachapero calls "top flight" — can earn $200,000 or more (men, for once, earn less, though they tend to accept longer careers). Only there's a limit to even the most successful porn star's earning ability. "Unlike mainstream performers," says Cachapero, "adult performers have less opportunity to diversify revenue by calculation streams like merchandising and endorsements."

STUDIO CHIEF $5M-$15M
Your boilerplate studio chief — think Alan Horn, Brad Grey and Amy Pascal — earns a base bacon of about $5 million. But bonuses and other sweeteners (structured on box office and production output, among other factors) usually corporeality to two to three times that payday. Plus, the job comes with the all-time perks in Hollywood, from individual jet rides to 24-hour assistants.

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PRODUCER

$250K-$2M

The number of producers whose fees top $two meg — such aces as Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Rudin, Brian Grazer and Neal H. Moritz — can exist counted on two hands (plus maybe a foot). Moritz now tops the list, surpassing Bruckheimer with his rich Fast & Furious 7 bargain. Rudin is said to have a quote of $2.5 million against 7.5 percent of outset-dollar gross. But one dealmaker says no one is earning true outset-dollar gross as in the erstwhile days. Instead, "everybody reduces before a film is greenlit and agrees to be part of a cash-intermission puddle." The PGA does not share average producer salaries, but a newbie typically earns $250,000, while a hot actor making a foray into producing earns $500,000 to $750,000 with some backend. Established actors with successful producing rail records tin take abode considerably more than — like Adam Sandler, who earned $5 meg to produce Grown Ups two (non most every bit much equally the $xx million he received to star in the film).

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PUBLICIST $27K-$400K
Dissimilar agents, managers and lawyers, PR reps typically are paid a monthly fee, not a per centum of income. That makes a big difference. A partner at a big firm makes $200,000 to $300,000, though some of the bigger flaks are rumored to pull in nearly $400,000. Publicists with A-list clients earn $100,000 to $150,000 (though fees vary depending on how many clients are "on," or paying monthly fees), while midlevel reps (5 to 7 years of experience) accept dwelling house $50,000 to $fourscore,000. The entry-level flack at the red carpet and premiere parties who can't detect your proper name on her clipboard makes $27,000 to $35,000.

STUNT PERSON $50K-$1M
How much would y'all charge to jump a motorbike over a wall and into a pond pool? How near driving a semi tractor-trailer 65 miles an hour off a ramp and thirty feet into the air? Tom McComas, 44, who has washed all that and much more as a stuntman in The Nighttime Knight and Mission: Impossible movies, earns about a half-1000000 dollars a twelvemonth, and some make even more. Yuen Woo-Ping, who worked on the Matrix films and Crouching Tiger, Subconscious Dragon, was said to have earned $1 1000000 annually at his peak. But those are exceptions — about run a risk their necks for far less.

The AFTRA rate for stunt work is $889 a day. That's about $50,000 a film, assuming one works every day during a iii-month shoot. And work, by the way, is getting harder to come up by in Fifty.A. cheers to productions moving to Louisiana, Georgia and other low-toll states, where local stunt workers catch near of the jobs. "I was in the meridian ane percent, making $250,000 a year," says a Hollywood stuntwoman who has doubled for Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis. "But in the last two years, that has gone down by $100,000." She estimates the average working stunt person makes merely $50,000 to $100,000 a yr.

That's barely enough to cover a daredevil'due south insurance premiums, allow alone pay the bills when he or she takes the inevitable spill. "I was doubling Jim Carrey in Yes Man, on the back of a scooter on Sunset Boulevard with the girl doubling Zooey Deschanel," recalls McComas. "A car that was supposed to slide by us hitting u.s.a. at fifty miles per hour. She shattered her pelvis; I jumped, flipped in the air and herniated a couple of disks." He was out of work for viii months. "When you're hurt, you show up the side by side day and you're fired. Basically we're bluish-collar workers who punch the clock. I went from $ten,000 a week to $900 a week on inability. The bottom line for a stuntman is: Don't become hurt."

COMMERCIAL VOICE ACTOR $3K-$1M AN Advertizement
You lot can practice it on bad hair days, and it pays nifty. More than and more than height stars are lending their voice to Television receiver and radio commercials. Robert Downey Jr. for Nissan, Morgan Freeman for Visa, Jon Hamm for Mercedes, Tim Allen for Michigan Tourism, Kevin Spacey for Honda, Lisa Kudrow for Yoplait, Queen Latifah for Pizza Hut … the list goes on and on. "The trend in terms of celebrities doing voiceover has been distinctly upward," says Jeff Danis, president of DPN Talent, an bureau that specializes in commercial voiceover work. Big names like Freeman and Allen can command more than than $1 meg for an ad, which usually requires just a twenty-four hours's work.

But major stars account for just most 20 percentage of the voices you hear in commercials. The other eighty pct — non-celebrity voice actors — don't make well-nigh that kind of dough. Typically, they'll earn scale, which works out to most $3,000 to $5,000 an ad.

Jon Hamm is the voice of Mercedes.

Goggle box STARS $150K-$1M AN EPISODE

It used to be when movie stars did a Tv show, it was seen as slumming. Now information technology's considered moving on up. Just this summer, Oscar winner Halle Drupe debuted on CBS' Extant, and this autumn Katherine Heigl stars on NBC'due south State of Affairs, while Tea Leoni plays a ameliorate-dressed version of Hillary Clinton on CBS' Madam Secretary. Each of these actresses is being paid $150,000 an episode, the going rate for luring big-screen names to Idiot box (for a 22-episode season, it adds up to $3.iii million). That's a far weep from the $15,000 to $25,000 per episode an unknown actor is offered for a series regular role. But established TV actors with almost no big-screen experience can practice very well. Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting now will make $i million an episode on The Big Blindside Theory (up from $350,000). And then there's Mark Harmon, who makes north of $500,000 per episode of NCIS, and Ashton Kutcher, who earns $750,000 per episode of Two and a Half Men — or about $34,000 a minute. With paychecks like that, who needs a film career?

PRIVATE CHEF $75K-$200K

Michelin-starred individual chefs obviously can make more — but there are other ingredients in the salary recipe, like whether the client requires odd-hour meals or has a special diet. Co-ordinate to Christian Paier, owner of L.A.-based Private Chefs Inc., pairing a chef with a star or industry client can exist as challenging as matchmaking: "Some of these clients spend more fourth dimension with their chef than with their spouse — they travel with their chef wherever they go. It'due south a very intimate thing."

SHOWRUNNER $30K-$100K AN EPISODE
At 22 episodes a flavour, that adds up to $660,000 to $two.2 meg a year. A select few creator-runners brand considerably more, similar Matthew Weiner (who got $30 million for the last three years of Mad Men).

REALITY STAR: PRACTICALLY Nothing-$200K AN EPISODE
Sure, if you're a fellow member of the Duck Dynasty clan — or a Kardashian — you can brand millions (similar Kourtney and Kim'southward reported $xl million, three-yr deal with E!, or the Robertson family unit's more than than $200,000 an episode deal with A&Due east for Dynasty). Even D-list celebs who keep Wife Swap can make decent money: $10,000 to $20,000 an episode. But for the vast bulk of reality show performers — unfamous Bachelor contestants and other run-of-the manufacturing plant reality hopefuls — jury duty pays ameliorate. You lot're given a minimal stipend to compensate for missed wages, and that's pretty much it. The existent money in reality comes from parlaying your Television receiver profile into something larger, the way Housewives star Bethenny Frankel managed to state that $100 1000000 Skinnygirl deal in 2011. Mike "The State of affairs" Sorrentino spun six seasons on MTV's Jersey Shore into $9 million from endorsements of products including vitamins, clothing, jewelry and sunglasses. Those deals are rare these days, merely on a more modest scale, hot-ish reality stars can pick upward an like shooting fish in a barrel $5,000 to $10,000 just for showing up for paid "appearances" at bars and nightclubs.

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Movie WRITER $100K-$1M A DRAFT
Feature motion picture writers' incomes proceed to slide. According to the WGA West, screenwriters in Hollywood earned a combined full of $331 million last year, down nearly 25 per centum from 2009. Just some of them are doing pretty well. A screenwriter who sells a typhoon to a major studio can earn about $100,000, and a hot writer can score $1 million or more than. Super scribes such equally Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Simon Kinberg pull in as much equally $v million annually in writers' fees (more when you add in residuals and producing earnings), while other height screenwriters earn closer to $2 one thousand thousand.

TV WRITER $3K-$6K A WEEK
In a gloomy Hollywood climate, the WGA says things are looking relatively bright for Television receiver writers, who took in a combined total of $668.five million terminal twelvemonth, downwardly merely 6.two percent from 2012. And TV residuals are booming: Final year, WGA members received $233.7 million in Tv set residuals, up 55 pct since 2012. Nigh staff writers piece of work on xx-calendar week contracts, at a rate of about $3,800 a week, though more senior writers earn almost $6,000 a week. Merely the real money is in writing an unabridged episode on i's ain. That pays $24,788 a script, and considerably more if you create your ain series (encounter "Showrunner").

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BELOW THE LINE: The A to Z of Industry Pay

ANIMATION DIRECTOR $200K

ART DIRECTOR $134K

ASSISTANT ART Managing director $101K

AWARDS SHOW PRODUCER $300K

BEST Male child $92K

Torso DOUBLE $33K

Nail MIC OPERATOR $87K

CHAUFFEUR $56K

Camera OPERATOR $96K

CARPENTER $61K

COSTUME DEPT. SUPERVISOR $91K

COSTUMER $79K

Arts and crafts SERVICES FOREPERSON $74K

DOG HANDLER $54K

DIALECT Motorbus $125K

EDITOR $95K

FIRE SAFETY ADVISER $73K

Offset ASSISTANT DIRECTOR $192K

FOLEY Creative person $88K

GAFFER $59K

GARDENER (STUDIO) $50K

GRIP $102K

HAIRSTYLIST $77K

HAIRSTYLIST TRAINEE $66K

LIGHTING TECHNICIAN (ENTRY-LEVEL) $53K

LOCATION MANAGER $112K

MECHANIC $59K

MAKEUP Creative person $100K

MODEL BUILDER $68K

MUSIC MIXER $111K

NOVELIZATION Author $12,500 per book

PAYROLL ACCOUNTANT $66K

PERSONAL Banana FOR A CELEBRITY $80K

PROJECTIONIST (STUDIO) $72K

PROP MASTER $59K

PUBLICIST (STUDIO) $93K

SCENIC ARTIST $81K

SCRIPT SUPERVISOR $62K

SCULPTOR $75K

SET DECORATOR $104K

Sound EFFECTS EDITOR $88K

TEACHER (ON-SET) $88K

TRAILER EDITOR $81K

WIGMAKER, Form 1 $59K

WIGMAKER, Form 2 $69K

WILD ANIMAL TRAINER $75K

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