Dancing With the Stars Season 34 is formally airing on the 2025 TV schedule, that means it’s time to obsess over who’s going to be the following recipient of the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy. The DWTS forged is as soon as once more stuffed to the brim with athletes, actors, Olympians, influencers, actuality stars, and musicians vying for the trophy on the ballroom flooring. Since they’ll be spending a bit of their time over the following a number of weeks competing, how a lot are they really paid between the rehearsals, reside reveals, and making all of it the way in which to the tip?
How A lot Do Dancing With The Stars Contestants Make?
Sources instructed Selection in 2019 that contestants on the fact dancing competitors sequence make $125,000 for the rehearsal interval previous to the season formally beginning and the primary two weeks on air. In the event that they make it to week three and past, contestants are given extra charges every week. Nevertheless, the utmost quantity a contestant can earn is $295,000. It has modified over time, although, as stories earlier than 2019 revealed contestants made as a lot as $345,000.
That being stated, controversial Season 27 winner Bobby Bones just lately admitted on Jason Tartick’s Buying and selling Secrets and techniques podcast that the present “pays okay.” He went on to disclose that his pay when he was on was utterly totally different from what was beforehand reported:
Like first episode, no cash, second episode, $10,000. I believe it is like, $10,000, $10,000, $20,000 — it finally ends up being $50,000 an episode, for those who final. So I ended up making like near $400,000 from that present. So financially, fairly good.
Regardless, the DWTS superstar contestants have to surrender numerous time to be on the present, and relying on how far they make it, they presumably need to do nothing however DWTS for at most, round 10 weeks. They need to plan their schedules across the present, so it solely is sensible that they receives a commission properly. If solely it stayed constant.
How A lot Do They Make When They Win?
As for making all of it 10 weeks and profitable the Mirrorball, that’s a distinct story. As beforehand talked about, extra charges are given to contestants every week relying on how far they make it. Nevertheless, longtime professional and reigning champ Jenna Johnson revealed on The Morning After podcast that the profitable couple solely will get the shiny trophy ultimately.
So whoever makes it to the finale, you all receives a commission up till then. And also you do get a pleasant bonus. When you make all of it the way in which to the tip, you’re getting paid the entire season, which is wonderful, and also you get a bonus on high of that for making it to the finale. When you win, it’s not such as you win 1,000,000 {dollars} and cut up it along with your companion. You’re simply getting a cute trophy collectively.
Whereas the contestants and execs might be earning profits throughout their time on the present, they’re principally competing for a trophy and bragging rights, and nothing else. On the very least, for the reason that trophy is now renamed the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy in honor of the late choose, that may be a fairly particular cause for wanting to come back out on high, even when it’s not precisely money.
It may be assumed that most individuals who do DWTS don’t essentially do it for cash, however as a result of they need to show themselves and assume it’s enjoyable. Plus, that trophy does look fairly nice. There’s no telling who would be the subsequent recipient of the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy, however Season 34 is simply simply getting began. New episodes of DWTS air on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and with a Disney+ subscription.