Leaked Salaries Show White Actors Make More Than Black Actors

It’s Not Right: Leaked List Shows How Much More White TV Stars Make Than Black TV Stars

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Comparing TV Actor Pay

Variety has leaked the salaries of TV stars in comedy and drama and the results are pretty staggering. What we know is this: white actors make decidedly more than black actors even when white shows have smaller viewerships than black shows.

Take a look:

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Notice anything?

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Well take a look as we break down the numbers for you.

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Tracee Ellis Ross makes $80,000 per episode of Black-ish

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Anthony Anderson makes $100,000 per episode as an actor…it’s possible he makes more as a producer.

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Dwayne Johnson is the highest paid actor of color on TV, making $400,000 an episode.

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Kerry Washington makes $250,000 and is tied as a black woman earner with…

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Viola Davis who also makes $250K per episode.

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Terrence Howard makes $175,000 per episode of Empire

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Taraji P. Henson makes the same…

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The Lyon brothers only make $20,000 an episode.

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That means three of the main characters on TV’s hottest show make less than Game Of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke for a season. By herself.

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The main cast of Westworld makes $175,000 however it’s unclear if that includes Thandie Newton and Jeffrey Wright.

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What’s remarkable is that so many of the shows on the list have viewerships much much lower than Black-ish yet the cast makes a fraction of the money.

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Nobody on Luke Cage made the list, but we wonder if that’ll change going forward.

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Black shows not represented, but hopefully soon: Atlanta, Power, Queen Sugar just to name a few.

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