On the most basic level, actors are paid so much because people pay so much to see them. Now, you might be thinking you don’t pay more than a couple of dollars for your Netflix subscription or to buy the latest blockbuster movie. However, you are willing to pay $10. Most of your friends and family are probably willing to pay that much, too. If you and 100 of your friends and family are willing to pay $10 each, that’s $1,000. With hundreds of millions of people around the world all agreeing to pay $10 a piece, the numbers add up fast. People like to be entertained and they are willing to pay to enjoy themselves watch great actors on screen. It doesn’t seem like much, but most people are spending a fair amount of money to watch actors work. In the United States, the average household spends $47 per month on streaming service subscriptions. With more than 120 million households, that’s roughly 5.7 billion dollars every single month.
