Although the cast of "is always sunny in Philadelphia" is undoubtedly going well for themselves these days, when they started their sitcom, they were still in the hustle mode. Initially working with only one camera that can only afford Glen Hawthon's "Show "'s Checks' Checks 80thThat first season of "always sunny" There was a $ 100 budget and a dream.

Okay, they weren't $ 100, but it was low. The production budget was so low, in fact, that Rob McKaine still could not afford to leave his job as a waiter. He was paid $ 7,500 episode; Not bad by regular people's standards, but it's still much lower than what you would expect to do the leading actor and shower. Add the fact that there were only seven episodes in the first season, and then consider the lack of work stability involved - they had no way to know if they would do it in season 2 - and it makes sense for me to want to keep their daily work just to be safe.

It is all worth it as for Melini. As he explained in A. A recent interview with Variety:

"It was our chance and we are very proud of those episodes. It was certainly unlike anything else on TV. We knew we were betting on ourselves. Johnon was a lot ahead of us and said," We take the risk of you. You entered and said you wanted to be a shower. You're not even the main waiter in a restaurant! But I believe in you. ”You give you a significant ownership of the show. And it worked pretty well!"

The second season of the show had a higher episode count and the ratings of higher viewers, Partly thanks to the addition of Frank Reynolds to Danny Devito. Almost twenty years later, the show is known for being one of the longest live sites in action in the history of American TV and for being one of the few long -standing shows that remain consistent in quality even in later seasons. Rob McGenny no longer needs a waiter gig as a security network, that's for sure.

Although $ 7,500 episode seems low for TV gig, it turns out that wages in this range are quite common. For example, some Saturday Night Live fans were surprised when Pete Davidson mentioned in a recent interview That the SNL team makes them only "like a three Grand episode". The about 20 episodes of a $ 60,000 salary; Of course vibrant but not enough to live that lifestyle of Don Drapper Everyone assumes that there are actors.

Well, it is possible that Davidson may exaggerate how low his initial salary is, as other outlets report that members of the last year's team are making about 6-7kl from the episode. They also tend to receive a salary for each season returning to the show. (What is part of why Kenan Thompson probably does a lot good for yourself today as an actor member who is about 20+ seasons.) Take it all and add to Commercial money Verizon/T-Mobile Most of them seem to grow, and the SNL still looks like a comfortable gig as a whole.

Discussion about TV payments drew a lot of attention during the strikes of writers in 2023, where the actors and writers of hit shows like "Orange is New Black" and the "bear" talked about Surprisingly small payments They got from their popular job. Not only does modern TV actors pay as much as you think, but thanks to the importance of streaming services through the traditional network/cable television, they are no longer conducted in so many debris checks.

As a low budget and low paid, as "always sunny" during the early years, the fact that union status has reached in 2011, put its teams and crew in a great place in the long run. Making "always sunny" may have been a fight at the beginning, but the crew still had pretty good to modern TV production standards.