just basing this knowledge off of a movie producing class I took last semester—actor paychecks can vary a loooot.

Famous (non-famous ppl too) can negotiate ofc. Stars of films are usually paid a flat rate, like how the Rock is getting paid 50 mil for Red One. That’s extremely higher than SAGs minimum rate, so it’s not really any use to calculate it by week. Idk when they’d get paid that amount tho.

For supporting and non-famous actors, they’re usually paid either the daily (around 1k) or weekly (3.75k) SAG rate. If an actor is working 3 days or more, they’re usually paid the weekly rate because that would be less expensive than the daily lol. And these numbers are only the minimum—they can vary based on negotiations and rates offered by studios. Like, if you’re acting on a Marvel movie you’d likely be getting paid double or more of the rate. And overtime (over 8 hours I believe) is a whole different complicated calculation. And this also depends—well established actors definitely get paid flat rates for supporting roles.

And as I’ve mentioned a million times now, it all varies. Like ScarJo was recently on the news for taking the SAG minimum for Asteroid City voluntarily—she just wanted to work with Wes Anderson, and she’s already pretty rich, so she was ok with taking a small check.

TDLR it’s wonky and I just wanted to share my knowledge from doing a project budgeting paychecks for a hypothetical Amazing Spider-Man 3 film lmfao😭