Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch, who play Amy and Bernadette in the “Big Bang Theory” have gotten raises recently.
Both actresses, who are regulars on the show since fall 2010, have renegotiated their salaries, reported Deadline.
They were making somewhere around $20,000 to $30,000 a show, but will now get somewhere around $60,000 for the upcoming season, with the pay steadily increasing to almost reach $100,000 per episode by the end of their contracts.
The salaries still pale in comparison to the leading actors and actresses.
Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, and Kaley Cuoco, expected to negotiate as a group, currently get $350,000 an episode. Their raises will likely push the per episode salary past $500,000. Two other original cast members, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar, also are renegotiating their deals; all five expire in June 2014, reported Entertainment Weekly.
Some of the stars don’t appreciate the public nature of the contracts due to leaked information.
”I don’t even understand why the Internet has made it possible to reveal contract information,” Galaecky told EW in 2012. “We didn’t sign off on that being made public. It seems tasteless, which is maybe very Midwestern of me, but I just don’t understand.”
The show is coming off of its highest-rated season ever, and is a big hit for CBS, according to Deadline.
