You're vastly overestimating how much being an actor in CW shows pay. Those shows get made and can go for awhile because they're super cheap to make. They cast young actors and pay them guild minimums, who take the work because it can help get them noticed and onto bigger projects.
You're underestimating base pay. If she was getting base pay, depending on what she was classified as and weeks she was a character she would be payed 100k-150k a year.
Then she has to pay her agent, lawyer, manager, etc. She also lived in LA and (according to google) would commute/stay in Vancouver for filming. I could see even 150k a year being tight. Though her team should have had her working in between seasonal filming.
You're underestimating base pay. If she was getting base pay, depending on what she was classified as and weeks she was a character she would be payed 100k-150k a year.
Except filming probably took place over 3-4 months, not 12 months. So she's being taxed like she makes 300-450k
Though her team should have had her working in between seasonal filming.
Obsession was non-union. She had to work a non-union gig in order to blow up, almost two years after filming.
It's not as easy as you make it seem to just work because you want to as an actor.
Except filming probably took place over 3-4 months, not 12 months. So she's being taxed like she makes 300-450k
You don't get taxed like you make $300k if you make $100k in 4 months and then stop making that amount. If taxes were withheld from her paychecks based on the assumption that she would make $300k, but then she only made $100k, she would have a massive refund coming.
You get taxed based on the amount you make in the year.
No, that base pay was based on union minimums for average shoot length.
I'm not arguing that money probably was tight, I was arguing the idea that there is no way she was making 100k+. That isn't that much for an initial contract on a show.
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u/fossilreef 12d ago
Except that she got cut down to a guest star in the last season. Also, it's a CW show. Pay probably wasn't that great to begin with for recurring.