Jerry made serious cash in the last season of 'Seinfeld', Jerry Seinfeld has a silver tongue — in a greater number of courses than one.
Out of appreciation for the quarter century commemoration of the humorist and performer's eponymous hit sitcom, CNBC dissected scripts from the show and associated them with the remuneration of the four principle characters: Jerry Seinfeld (played without anyone else), George Costanza (Jason Alexander), Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards).
The news outlet figured that Seinfeld (the man)—who scored an incredible $1 million for every scene by the show's ninth and last season—made about $13,000 per line when show finished. The other three characters, who had less lines, were each paid $600,000 per scene in the last season.
That generally adds up to: Richards at $15,000 per line, Louis-Dreyfus at $13,000 (same as Seinfeld), and Alexander at $11,000.
But then those rates are misleading. Seinfeld really snatched a great deal more cash than his co-stars—and not simply on the grounds that he had reliably more lines per scene. Why? Basic: Syndication bargains. These arrangements "are assessed to have acquired over $3 billion since 1995. Seinfeld's slice comes to around an incredible $400 million over that time period," CNBC reports.
Blah, blah, blah Seinfeld made a ton of
Out of appreciation for the quarter century commemoration of the humorist and performer's eponymous hit sitcom, CNBC dissected scripts from the show and associated them with the remuneration of the four principle characters: Jerry Seinfeld (played without anyone else), George Costanza (Jason Alexander), Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards).
The news outlet figured that Seinfeld (the man)—who scored an incredible $1 million for every scene by the show's ninth and last season—made about $13,000 per line when show finished. The other three characters, who had less lines, were each paid $600,000 per scene in the last season.
That generally adds up to: Richards at $15,000 per line, Louis-Dreyfus at $13,000 (same as Seinfeld), and Alexander at $11,000.
But then those rates are misleading. Seinfeld really snatched a great deal more cash than his co-stars—and not simply on the grounds that he had reliably more lines per scene. Why? Basic: Syndication bargains. These arrangements "are assessed to have acquired over $3 billion since 1995. Seinfeld's slice comes to around an incredible $400 million over that time period," CNBC reports.
Blah, blah, blah Seinfeld made a ton of
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