How much does an actor get paid for a rerun?

While the exact amount isn’t actually known, cast members have revealed that the reruns pay them 6% of their original salaries. If a star made a mere $150,000 per episode across all 20 seasons, that would come in around $200,000 per year in royalties.

Does Bill Cosby still get royalties?

Cosby Show salary Cosby owned 20 per cent of the show’s equity and continued to receive royalties from the show for decades as reruns of the sitcom were shown on TV.

Do The Cosby Show actors get residuals?

Raven-Symoné joined The Cosby Show in 1989 at 3 years old. Today, she STILL generates money in residuals/royalties from the show. However, did you know that due to her other roles in TV, movies, music & etc.

Do contestants get paid for reruns?

Actors (other than background actors) get paid again when a performance is rerun. In TV’s past, those payments ended after a certain number of replays; now they can go on forever — making those “Law & Order” reruns an annuity for the actors.