According to USA Today, “Friends” makes enough every year to support its own economy. The show regularly brings Warner Bros. a whopping $1 billion a year from syndicated reruns. The “Friends” cast doesn’t get the largest piece of the pie, but they do get 2% each annually. That total amount adds up to around $20 million. That doesn’t count potential money made from streaming deals on Netflix and HBO Max.
When they first started the show during Season 1, the cast reportedly only made $22,500 an episode. That totals to around a half a million dollars for all of the season. But the cast renegotiated their contracts through the years. By Season 9, they were making $1 million each, one of the highest TV salaries at the time.
“Were we worth $1 million? To me, that’s such a strange question,” Matt LeBlanc told HuffPost Live in 2015. “It’s like, well, that’s irrelevant. Are you worth it? How do you put a price on how funny something is? We were in a position to get it.”
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