How much do the Stranger Things kid make per episode? Picard? Moiraine from The Wheel of Time?

The streaming wars are good for viewers: there’s a lot of good TV to watch out there now, and a lot more on the way. It’s also a great time for actors. Someone’s gotta be in all that programming, right?

But exactly how good is it? Variety has compiled a report of some of the big payees in the space right now. Let’s look at a sampling of some of the actors appearing in genre shows:

• Ruby Rose on Batwoman: 60k-75k per episode
• Orlando Bloom on Carnival Row: $350k per episode
• Rosamund Pike on The Wheel of Time: $350k per episode
• Jason Momoa on See: $600k per episode
• Patrick Stewart on Star Trek: Picard: $750k per episode

Then also have the entire Stranger Things lineup:

• Mille Bobby Brown: $350k per episode
• David Harbour: $350k per episode
• Winona Ryder: $350k per episode
• Gaten Matarazzo: $250k per episode
• Finn Wolfhard: $250k per episode
• Caleb McLaughlin: $250k per episode
• Noah Schnapp: $250k per episode
• Charlie Heaton: $250k per episode
• Natalia Dyer: $250k per episode
• Sadie Sink: $150k per episode

That is a lot of teenage millionaires.

NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 01: (Clockwise from top left) Actors Sadie Sink, Millie Bobby Brown, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard and Gaten Matarazzo attend SiriusXM’s ‘Town Hall’ cast of Stranger Things on SiriusXM’s Entertainment Weekly Radio on November 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

Now, obviously, the bigger your name, the more money you can command right out of the gate. That’s a lot of money ABC is paying Patrick Stewart to play Captain Jean-Luc Picard again, but that’s because he’s a big name, and networks will do anything to give them a competitive edge. “At this particular moment in time there’s a feeding frenzy,” said Dante Di Loreto, a president at major TV production company Fremantle. “There’s a lot of money that has been dropped into the television universe because of new companies entering the market and a desire to make an impact really quickly.”

“There definitely has been some dramatic salary inflation, in part as new services try to buy their way into the business,” said Showtime Networks entertainment co-president Gary Levine. “We’re paying more than we have, for sure. And that’s fine. But we have not had to give in completely to the hysteria of the marketplace.”

But of course, bigger names have always commanded bigger salaries. The new thing is that people are getting them on TV right away. For example, the Game of Thrones cast was making good money by the end of the show, but that was only after it had been a popular phenomenon for years. (Richard Madden, whose character Robb Stark died in the third season, said he was paid “fuck all” for the show in those early days.) But Apple paid Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Anniston $1 million per episode to appear in The Morning Show on Apple TV+, and you get the idea that some people think things are getting out of hand. “Apple started this whole nonsense, which is great for us, but it is outrageous,” one agent told Variety.

And things might continue in this direction. Apparently Chris Pratt is currently shopping around a project that would pay him $1.4 million an episode, while Harrison Ford is has a scripted take on the docuseries The Staircase that would net him $1.2 million per episode. Di Loreto doubts it. “There’s a lot of money, which is distorting the business in the short term, and that’s not going to sustain itself,” he said. “At some point it’s going to tighten up. I think it’s already tightening up at certain streamers. Once we get through this particular frenzy, we’re going to see more of that.”

Actors, enjoy the frenzy while you can.

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