Report: How Much Money Does Jersey Shore Cast Earn Per Season?
June 13, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Ahead of Jersey Shore season six, some new salary information has been released revealing how much money the cast earns per season. So now you can compare pay with MTV channel-mates Teen Mom and Bravo’s Real Housewives.
The Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2 girls earn between $75,000 to $140,000 per season, with auxiliary cast such as parents and boyfriends earning on the lower side of that. The Real Housewives’ pay varies widely per city, with Beverly Hills earning between $100,000 and $250,000 per season; Orange County earning between $30,000 and $450,00 per season; Atlanta earning between $50,000 and $750,000 per season, not including bonuses (bringing the figure closer to one million). Newer characters, and tertiary characters, earn less. Also, established characters earn more money the more drama they cause.
And now it’s claimed the Jersey Shore cast earns between $40,000 and $1.8 million per season, not including bonuses which increases pay to $2.55 million per season for three of the eight cast members.
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, and Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio, get $150,000 per episode, with a season running about 12 episodes, for a total of $1.8 million dollars. And that’s before bonuses. Snooki, The Situation, and Pauly D, also get a $400,000 signing bonus at the beginning of the season, a $200,000 bonus at the end of the season, and for any additional reunion episodes they get $150,000 each time, for a total of around $2.55 million per season. And that’s before appearance fees, endorsements, book deals, and spin-offs.
The remaining cast earns less: Jenni “JWoww” Farley earns about $100,000 per episode; Vinny Guadagnino earns $90,000 an episode; Ronnie Magro and Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola each earn $80,000 per episode; Deena Cortese earns about $40,000 per episode. Although, according to a source, Cortese may earn more this season: “With all the drama that Deena has been bringing to the show, including kissing a girl and even getting arrested, her salary is definitely going up thanks to that.”