When you’re on a hugely popular show, you’re going to want to be compensated accordingly for that shows’ success. In the case of 13 Reasons Why, the cast of the popular streaming series has been rewarded with significant pay raises for the third season.
It came down to the wire, but the core eight members of the cast were given solid salary increases. Dylan Minnette, who has emerged as the sole lead following the departure of original star Katherine Langford, will be payed in the $200,000 per episode range, while Brandon Flynn, Alisha Boe, Justin Prentice, Christian Navarro, Miles Heizer, Devin Druid and Ross Butler will each be making $135,000 an episode in the upcoming third season, going up to $150,000 an episode in Season 4, should the show go to a fourth season.
It’s being reported that this is about what the actor’s reps had been seeking in a new deal for its stars. The bump is way above the group’s start salaries, said to be in the $20,000 – $60,000 an episode range, with Minnette believed to have started higher, around or north of $80,000 since he was a name before the series launched.
It is customary for the cast of successful shows to seek raises after Season 2. The impetus for the salary demands by the 13 Reasons Why actors were believed to be the big raises that the young cast of another hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, got for their upcoming third season. All 13 Reasons actors were still under contracts and started work on Season 3 as scheduled before renegotiations were completed. The cast even convened together for a cast dinner following the series’ first table read so the negotiations were never contentious, just business as usual.
