What Sally Field earns — and who earns more
Yesterday, I plugged Sally Field’s presence on a list of Entertainment Weekly’s favorite actors. Today, I found her on another list: TV Guide’s roster of who’s getting paid what in TV.
Judging from the list, Sally’s getting robbed: Her $100,000/episode take, while presumably the highest of her castmates, puts her $25,000 below Grey’s Anatomy ensemblers Chandra Wilson and T.R. Knight; at half the take of Grey’s’ Ellen Pompeo and Desperate Housewives’ Eva Longoria; at a third of what Hugh Laurie makes for House; and at merely a fifth of what William Peterson rakes in for CSI.
A few other prime-timers who are making more than Mama Walker, according to the TV Guide article (all amounts per episode): Charlie Sheen, Zach Braff, Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni ($350,000); Kyra Sedgwick ($250,000); Patrick Dempsey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus ($225,000); Jeff Foxworthy ($150,000); and Julian McMahon and Dylan Walsh ($125,000).
On the other hand, to put things into perspective, the article also discloses the pay for the folks that make those actors look good: $30,823/week for a writer, $2,271 for the head makeup artist, $1,804 for the head hairstylist, $2,009 for a costume designer, $1,840 for a scenic artist. Forget all those star salaries and egos — whoever puts together the thing of beauty that is the Walker kitchen deserves a raise.
Photo: ABC.com
Brothers and Sisters, ABC, Sally Field, TV Guide, star salaries
July 25th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Well, also, B&S is still just getting started and it’s not a ratings juggernaut yet like Grey’s Anatomy and CSI. Also, the show isn’t carried by one person like Hugh Laurie and Zach Braff, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, etc. It’s a huge cast with a lot of accomodate.