DEH Actors Salaries Question? — Page 4

Tag said: "^For what reason would Will Roland or Kristolyn Lloyd be making over minimum?? (and probably Mike Faist too...)



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Because they are playing characters who are essential to the plot and whose names we remember. Minimum is for actors playing incidental roles.

And because agents don't get a cut of a minimum contract. They have to negotiate at least 10% over minimum to get their 10%.

DISCLAIMER: It's been a few decades since I worked in theater management. You seem knowledgable, Tag. If you or Hogan tell me things have changed, I'll believe you.

@Gaveston, yes, typically principals get more than the minimum (without regard to contractual supplements), and that includes anyone except perhaps what in a musical equity would call Chorus. Re favored nations, what I said is that the equity contracts do not generally contain these clauses (and let's just focus on the production contract because it is not in there) so there is no overriding principle that because one person gets a raise everyone must. That does not mean however that an individual contract cannot provide that someone is entitled to a parallel raise when certain others get one. (One could also negotiate that no one gets paid as much as you do, and it gets fun when you find both in the same production. Similar fun and games relating to font sizes... [I remember one show with so many font deals that the production considered hiring a mathematician with experience in differential calculus.])