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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just saw the video with Mandy Moore who said she's received streaming residual checks for This Is Us for as little as $0.01.

Unreal! [/quote]

Mandy Moore made 4.5 million per season for This is Us. More money than most human beings on this Earth will see in a lifetime of working. How much more do you think she deserves "up front" to make up for low residuals? It is hard to feel sorry for her. If she doesn't like the residual check, maybe she should find another career.[/quote]

Point goes over head! If Many Moore, the star, is only making that, what do you think the lower billed actors are making? What you are doing is using an exception to prove a rule. Not cool.[/quote]

The PP who doesn't get that not everyone is paid at Mandy Moore level should see this post by an actress, Michelle Hurd, who is in steady work, but still cannot always meet the minimum annual income from acting she needs to qualify for work-based health insurance.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu1mWUWNDlO/

She points out, for example, that for a guest shot in an episode, actors make between about $5,000 and $8,000, one time. So if she books three guest shots, three episodes, in a year, she appears to be doing well, but even at the top of that pay scale she would still fall just short of the $26k she has to earn by acting to get health insurance coverage through her work (via the union).  The pay scale is not about her, her experience, etc. It's fixed by the studios and producers. (And I would add -- she'd need other sources of income because who lives on $24,000 a year anywhere, much less LA, NY or any large US city with TV and film production facilities?)

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The point is not going over my head. Michelle Hurd is not working full time. By my calculations 3 guest episodes in a drama equals a little over 6 weeks of work (calculated in 40 hour work weeks). She can get health insurance through the national exchange.  I’m trying to understand what YOU think Michelle Hurd should be paid.[/quote]

How does their current health care work? Is it free if they make 26k a year? I worked for a Fortune 500 company and paid for health insurance since mid 1980’s.

26k is part time work. No company pays for healthcare for part time workers.

Kaley Cuoco described her work week on TBBT as follows: they get the script Tuesday night, the go in Wednesday and Thursday to rehearse/rewrites and record on Friday in front of an audience. So three days of work.

Jennifer Aniston described her work pretty much the same. They recorded Friday and sometimes could go until 3:00 in the morning. BUT EVERY FOURTH WEEK THEY HAD OFF. The writers of Friends even made more than the stars. Each star of Friends still make 20 million a year on residuals. No idea if this in the exception. I am curious what TBBT residuals are for each star.

It’s ridiculous what the big stars make. But it’s even more ridiculous what the studios are making. (The same could be said for sport teams and owners. But athletes do put their health on the line.) There’s definitely more money to be shared among the workers.

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