A source has told People that the two soap opera stars have quietly split after two. Salaries can therefore range from £12,000 to well over £200,000 depending on popularity. They never thought that she would have been the one to leave. Soap opera stars make a wide range of different salaries, but the average soap opera star makes an annual salary of 52,946.Top soap opera stars can earn as much as 300,000 or more per year, while low-level soap opera actors can earn as little as 10,841 per year.Soap opera talent that falls into the middle receive salaries that range from 52,946 to 133,501 per year. Of EastEnders’ £29.9m annual budget, £2.9m is spent on scripts, while £6.9m is spent on paying actors, extras and chaperones for child actors.Īcross Emmerdale, Coronation Street and EastEnders, the pay structure is the same: actors get a fee per episode, which can range from £400 to £2,000, with a guaranteed number of episodes a year (as few as 30 or as many as 100) and a repeat fee. Writers can be paid anything between £5,000 and £12,000 per episode, depending on experience and character. Former soap stars who have very normal jobs after career changesĪctors playing popular characters - such as EastEnders’ Jessie Wallace, who plays Kat - get a higher fee and usually exceed their guaranteed minimum number of episodes, while actors playing less popular characters can be in danger of falling short.Emmerdale couple Jeff Hordley and Zoe Henry share details of their real life romance in idyllic Dales.Music: She began her music career at age 14. ITV’s costs are more difficult to ascertain, but it would be fair to say that Coronation Street has a comparable budget, with Emmerdale’s closer to £125,000 per episode.Ībout one third of a soap’s budget goes on actor and writer wages. Loring left Days in 1986 and would only make sporadic film and television appearances over the next few decades.
At 212 episodes, that works out at £141,000 per episode - or 3.5p per viewer hour. About one third of the budget goes on actor and writer wages.īBC soap EastEnders costs £29.9 million. Of course, its different with the soaps megastars, like Eric Braeden (Victor Newman), who celebrated 40 years on the show in 2020 and can command up to 5,000 per episode, according to Wide Open Country, which estimates his net worth at 25 million.
Iconic spots on Coronation Street and Emmerdale (Image: ITV/Yorkshire Evening Post)Ī recent report from the National Audit Office revealed the cost of making soaps.
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