Stranger Things stars receive MASSIVE raises ahead of Netflix series’ fifth and final season
The stars of Stranger Things will reportedly get a major pay raise ahead of the show’s fifth and final season.
The cast has been split into tiers, with top adult stars Winona Ryder and David Harbor set to earn $9.5 million each for the entire season, according to Disc News.
The series’ younger stars are split into lower tiers with smaller, though still sizable, salaries for the final season.
DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives for Ryder, Harbor and Netflix for comment.
Moving forward: The cast of Stranger Things is getting a significant raise for its fifth and final season, according to Puck News. Winona Ryder and David Harbor will earn the most at $9.5 million for the season
Ryder and Harbor reportedly earn multiple times what they earned in the previous fourth season.
The Edward Scissorhands star and the Hellboy actor were paid around $350,000 per episode that season, which works out to around $2.8 million total.
The outlet reports that a second tier of salaries includes actors Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo and Noah Schnapp, who came out as gay on Thursday.
The actors, who portrayed the original quartet of friends from the first season, will earn $7 million each for the fifth season, a significant increase from their $25,000 per episode rates for the first season.
Original leads: The outlet reports that a second tier of salaries includes actors Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo and Noah Schnapp, who came out as gay on Thursday; Still from Stranger Things
Rising stars: The group, which also includes Sadie Sink (right), will earn $7 million for the fifth season; Still from Stranger Things
Sadie Sink, who joined the series in the second season but has become an integral part of the main cast, will also receive the same amount.
Another group of series regulars playing teens, including Natalia Dyer, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, and Charlie Heaton, will reportedly earn more than $6 million for the final season.
A final level is reserved for the other program accessories not included in the previous levels.
Although their salaries were not disclosed in the report, they are said to earn considerably less than the other groups.
Flying solo: Millie Bobby Brown is not included in the tiered increases, as she already has an exclusive deal with Netflix; seen in may in brooklyn
Completed: Another group of regulars playing teens, including Natalia Dyer, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, and Charlie Heaton, will apparently earn more than $6 million for the final season; Dyer, Heaton, Sink, Hawke, Schnapp, Priah Ferguson and Brett Gelman spotted in May
However, one major star is apparently not included in either level: Millie Bobby Brown, who plays a telekinetic teenager who escapes from a government lab before joining forces with the quartet of kids to fight the forces of evil that they have escaped to their (fictional) hometown of Hawkins, Indiana.
Brown has an exclusive contract with Netflix, so his compensation has been determined separately.
Few details have been released about the final season, though the Duffer Brothers, who created the series and serve as showrunners on Stranger Things, said indiewire in August that they would not be expanding the cast, as they did in previous seasons.
‘We are doing everything we can to resist [adding new characters] for season five,’ said Ross Duffer. “We’re trying not to do that so we can focus on the original characters, I guess.”
Sticking with the Basics: Details about the fifth season are scant, but the creators have said they don’t plan to add any significant new characters, unlike previous seasons; Still from Stranger Things