'Big Bang Theory' leads taking pay cuts so female co-stars can get raises

2017-03-02 4

The cast of The Big Bang Theory is doing something right to fix Hollywood’s wage gap. Kaley Cuoco, Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kunal Nayyar and Simon Helberg, who currently make $1 million per episode, reportedly agreed to take $100,000 pay cuts to increase the salaries of Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch. Bialik and Rauch now make about $200,000 per episode, so their pay would rise to $450,000 if the extra funds are split evenly, Variety reported. "The Big Bang Theory" is the number one comedy for the sought-after demographic of 18-to-49-year-olds and averages 20 million viewers per episode.

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