Profitable Survivor means accumulating a $1 million payday ($2 million for Tony Vlachos on Season 40, Winners at Conflict). However just one particular person can win the season, so what about everyone else?
Whereas little or no has been stated concerning the salaries of Survivor contestants, there’s a bit recognized about whether or not gamers who aren’t the Sole Survivor really stroll away with any cash. Scroll down for all the things we all know!
Are Survivor contestants paid?
Sure, Survivor contestants do receives a commission, however the quantity depends upon how lengthy they final within the competitors.
In 2021, Corinne Kaplan, who appeared on Seasons 17 and 26, opened up about how a lot contestants earn from the present. “I believe persons are at all times stunned to study that we do earn cash,” she stated on the Buying and selling Secrets and techniques podcast. “The identical pot of cash exists regardless of what number of gamers there are.” This, after all, signifies that the quantity every particular person will get depends on what number of forged members seem on every season to start with.
Kaplan additionally claimed, “CBS by no means accounted for inflation. There’s by no means any extra money within the pot.” She stated that the primary particular person voted off the present makes $2,500, with subsequent castoffs getting a step by step growing quantity till the purpose the place gamers who’re voted out grow to be jury members.
“Then it begins going up by $10,000 every jury member,” she stated. “$1 million is first place, second place is $100,000, third place is $75,000.” (Different reviews have said that the primary boot will get $3,500 and third place will get $85,000). Previous to Season 40, there was a stay Survivor reunion present, and Kaplan stated that gamers earned an extra $10,000 in the event that they confirmed up (and didn’t breach their contract prior).
On Season 17, Kaplan got here in sixth place and walked away with $45,000. When she returned for Season 26, she got here in twelfth place and made $20,000.
Who has received the Fan Favourite Award?
Throughout Season 8 of Survivor, the Fan Favourite Award was launched (it was later known as Dash Participant of the Season award). Followers bought to vote for his or her favourite participant to obtain a big prize, even when they have been the one who had received the season.
For the All-Stars season, Rupert Boneham, who completed in fourth place, was voted the winner and bought to take residence $1,000,000 — the identical quantity as that season’s winner Amber Brkich!
The award returned in Season 12, the place Cirie Fields (fourth place) received a GMC Yukon automotive. In Season 13, runner-up Ozzy Lusth additionally received a automotive (a Mercury Mariner).
The Fan Favourite Award was a part of the present from Seasons 15 by 26 earlier than it was retired. All of these winners acquired $100,000. So as, they have been: James Clement (seventh place), Clement once more (seventh place), Bob Crowley (winner), J.T. Thomas (winner), Russell Hantz (runner-up), Hantz once more (runner-up), Jane Vibrant (sixth place), Rob Mariano (winner), Lusth (fourth place), Kim Spradlin (winner), Lisa Whelchel (third place), and Malcolm Freberg (ninth place).
Who has received the Sia Award?
Sia is a longtime Survivor fan. In 2016, she fell in love with Season 32 contestant Tai Trang and needed to reward him. Trang completed the season in third place, however nonetheless walked away with $50,000 due to Sia. She additionally gave him $50,000 to present a charity of his alternative.
The singer introduced the award again in future seasons when sure gamers’ tales resonated together with her. In Season 36, Donathan Hurley, who got here in fifth place, was awarded $14,000 from Sia. Season 37’s Davie Rickenbacker was additionally given $14,000 from Sia after his sixth place end.
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After Season 38, Sia stated that if Joe Anglim chopped off his hair and donated it to a wig-making charity for youngsters’s most cancers, she would give him the Sia Award. He wasted no time, reducing his locks backstage on the stay reunion present. Sia gave him $15,000, which he donated to charity. That season’s seventh place finisher, Aurora McCreary, additionally acquired $15,000 from Sia, and Rick Devens, who got here in fourth place, bought $100,000.
On Season 39, Jamal Shipman got here in twelfth place, however bought $15,000 from the Sia Award. Two different contestants from that season, Elaine Stott and Janet Carbin, earned $100,000 every from Sia following their respective seventh and fifth place finishes.
The Sia Award returned throughout Season 42 when Drea Wheeler, who got here in seventh, bought $100,000. Season 43’s Ryan Medrano, who completed in ninth, bought $50,000, and so did second runner-up Owen Knight, whereas Jesse Lopez, who got here in fourth, bought $100,000.
On Season 44, Lauren Harpe (fifth place) and Carson Garrett (fourth place) bought $15,000 every from Sia, and Carolyn Wiger (third place) took residence $100,000. Season 45 was the final time the Sia Award was given out. Kaleb Gebrewold (eleventh place) and Jake O’Kane (third place) every bought $15,000, whereas Katurah Topps (fourth place) acquired $100,000.
Probst confirmed in 2024 that the Sia Award was being discontinued. “Over the numerous years Sia has introduced a lot pleasure to so many gamers and it was at all times straight from her coronary heart,” he shared. “So it’s with super gratitude and admiration to Sia that we bring to a halt one of the crucial distinctive relationships a TV present may ever have with a pop star of Sia’s international wattage.I ‘m actually honored for Survivor to have this one among a form affiliation with Sia.”