How much do sitcom actors get paid?

Answer 1

For theatrical films (what you see at movie theaters), the SAG minimums are $596 for a "Day Performer" and $2,070 for a "Weekly Performer." From there it goes to specific pay schedules. Weekly performers on Schedule "B" can get up to $5000 for a theatrical film, and $4200 for television. Performers working on Schedule "F" are paid by the project rather than by the week.

Under schedule "F" actors working on a theatrical movie earn $55,000 per picture; on a TV movie, $30,000 per picture; on a mini-series, $34,000; and on episodic TV (a weekly series), $30,000 per episode.

Beyond these minimums actors can negotiate whatever their marketability and popularity will bear. For instance, the cast of the television sitcom Friends each will receive about $1,000,000 per episode for their final season, the leads on ER get $300,000, and Drew Carey recently got an increase to $400,000 per episode plus a new Porsche!

At last report, the salary king of sitcom was Kelsey Grammer who gets $1.7 million per episode for his series, Frasier.