Successful the sport isn’t the one method to carry dwelling some chilly, onerous money.
Everybody who competes on Survivor needs the identical factor: to win! There are many the reason why (fame, bragging rights, and many others.), however the huge one is clearly cash. Who wouldn’t need $1 million hanging out of their checking account? For Season 40 (Winners at Warfare), the stakes have been even larger as a result of the prize was truly $2 million! However what you could not know is that profitable the sport isn’t the one method to carry dwelling some chilly, onerous money. Do Survivor contestants receives a commission? You wager they do!
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How a lot do ‘Survivor’ contestants receives a commission?
If you concentrate on it, it makes excellent sense that anybody who competes on Survivor will get paid for it. In any case, they’re showing on tv. They legally have to be paid for that. The massive bucks go to the winner (obvs), however the runners-up additionally get a good-looking handout on the finish of the season.
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In keeping with ABC Information, Kelly Wiglesworth (the runner-up in Season 1) bought a verify for $100,000 for coming in second (Richard Hatch, in fact, bought the $1 million prize … after which finally went to jail for not paying taxes on that cash). However the different gamers of that first season didn’t go dwelling empty-handed. They have been every paid in accordance with how lengthy they stayed on the present. So Sonja, the primary tribe member (ever!) voted off the island, acquired $2,500, and Rudy (who got here in third) bought $85,000.
Today, there are three contestants left on the finish of the season as a substitute of two. In keeping with Fortune, the 2 runners-up every obtain $110,000, however nonetheless, everyone seems to be paid one thing. So long as you make it to the jury, you’re assured a fairly penny by the tip of the season. Though we actually wouldn’t scoff at making $2,500 for a single day’s work both.
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Season 40 of ‘Survivor’ was in all probability the most costly one ever.
Along with the $2 million prize, Season 40 additionally made use of the controversial Fringe of Extinction — a separate island the place gamers can stay after being voted out of their tribe. Whereas on Fringe of Extinction, eradicated gamers can compete for fireplace tokens and a attainable likelihood to get again into the sport.
Actually, in Season 38: Fringe of Extinction, contestant Chris Underwood spent virtually the whole season on EoE and finally got here again to win the entire enchilada. Anyway, Fringe of Extinction signifies that the contestants are on the present even after they’ve been voted off, which in flip means they should be compensated. And the truth that everybody on Season 40 was already at the least mildly well-known signifies that they in all probability weren’t settling for a similar charges that unknown gamers from earlier seasons did.
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And then there’s the Sia cash — for the previous few years, Sia (as in, the singer) has awarded varied quantities of cash to her favourite gamers in every season. So yeah, showing on Survivor — particularly as a fan favourite — actually has a whole lot of advantages even if you happen to don’t win the sport.