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The actress revealed she barely qualified for insurance while working on the hit Netflix show.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Won’t someone please think of the shareholders and their need for infinite growth?

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t understand why infinite exponential growth catches such flak. It’s a very natural thing that happens organically. I like getting exponentially more money infinitely forever. What’s so hard to understand?

[–] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I know right? Infinite growth is natural… just like cancer.

[–] Screwthehole@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It is a mystery!

[–] Acid@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago

$29k before tax and manager fees as an actor for 6 months of work really does not seem worth it, how on earth is that possible?

[–] gimlithepirate@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I wish these strikes would normalize talking about your salary in the US.

It's such a huge source of power employers have over workers heads. People always say "research what equivalent roles get when negotiating" but the data that's out there is crap. Companies work hard to obfuscate what they pay people.

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

“Hollywood accounting “

[–] ramblechat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think we all assume that any actor with a decent recurring role in a hit TV show is earning thousands an episode. I often look up actors on IMDB while I'm watching something where I know I've seen them before, and it's amazing how many times you see they have gone years without being in anything. Some may be doing theatre, but a lot of familiar faces are often only in 1 thing a year, or go a couple of years without being in anything then have 2-3 episodes. I really feel it's not a viable career for most. Yet the execs make millions. This actor - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2895488/?ref_=tt_cl_t_12 - Susan Park, for example. She was in the first Fargo TV series in 2014, 5 episodes, which is where I remember her from. Then between 2014 and 2020 she was in a total of 29 TV episodes. Let's be generous and say she earned $10000 per episode. That's only $48333 a year on average. And 11 of those were 2016-2017, so between 2017 and 2020 she was in 6 episodes. She then was cast in Snowpiercer in 2020 and has been in other stuff since (High Desert most recently). She also did some minor film roles, I doubt the pay was much for those. So this is an actor I recognise who has been in some major TV shows, yet is out of work a lot.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, technically $30,000 / 8 = $3,750 an episode, but I doubt each episode represents, say, 80 hours of work for an actor. $3,750 @ 80 hours = $46.875 per hour.

But, figure more it's like 160 hours... $23.4375 an hour? So... the same as whatever side job an actor has to support themselves?

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