enigmaax;656872 wrote:It is still relatively young...and peaking, I know. But when it starts running out of gas, who is going to sustain a career? Mike is the one who is going to continue to make money and who has marketed himself the best. Pauly has some personality. Vinny and Ronnie have nothing to offer on their own. Snooki will probably get her own trainwreck spinoff. The rest of the girls - nothing doing. The minute that Mike balks at a group deal (or when he gets enough going on his own to not have time), the rest are pretty much done. So keeping it fresh for the cast is just as important as mixing it up for the viewers.
I don't disagree with any of that, just saying they've all made A LOT of money on this. Not obscene money, but enough that investing smartly and living within their means they don't need to do much else. Of course, someone like Snooki probably isn't smart enough for that. But for the most part it doesn't look like any of them have gone hog wild with throwing money away, but they probably have. Too shocking to believe otherwise.
$5k per episode the 1st season * 9 = $45k
$10k per episode the 2nd season * 14 = $140k
$30k for Snooki, JWow, Situation and Pauly this season, a little less ($20-$25k?) for the others. = call it $250k+
And then you have a fourth season already in the works.
Not chump change by any means. Consider Snooki otherwise has a career selling t-shirts making minimum wage and she's already made multiples of her otherwise career earning potential.