Posts Tagged ‘Salaries’
Question Asked: How Do I Negotiate A Better Salary At A New Job?
When you’re considering taking a new job, it’s important to consider more than just a salary. While salaries are really important to most people, think of the grand scheme of things.
Aside from more money, could you negotiate stock options? Better benefits?
While money does in fact make the world go ’round. It shouldn’t be the sole reason you take (or don’t take) a new job.
Your new job may offer things that your old job can’t. Room to grow. New positions. Better stability.
Having said all that, I’ll actually answer your question:
Negotiating a better salary is a tricky situation. The most important thing is to try to be reasonable. If your potential new boss offers you $50,000, and you really wanted $70,000, it’s unlikely that they’re going to increase their offer by that much. So asking for that will make you look unrealistic.
However, if they offer you $50,000, and you wanted $55,000, it’s possible that you could talk them into that. Especially if that was within their original budget (from the job description you applied to.)
The biggest and most important thing is to stay within their budget, whatever you ask for.
Question Asked: Who is the Highest Paid Actor on Television?
Great question, and a surprising list of actors when I did the research on this.
The answers would be different if the question was “highest paid person on television”, which is Oprah (at $225 million a year)
Actors, however, tell a different tale:
- William Petersen (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) – $11.5 million ($500, 000 per episode)
- Charlie Sheen (“Two and a Half Men”) – $8.05 million
- Mariska Hargitay (“Law and Order: Special Victims Unit”) – $8.05 million
- Christopher Meloni (“Law and Order: Special Victims Unit”) – $8.05 million
- Zach Braff (“Scrubs”) – $6.3 million
- Hugh Laurie (“House MD”) – $6.2 million
Now, there’s another person who one could argue is an “actor”, that makes more than everyone on that list. Judge Judy. Judge Judy gets a reported $30 million per year, including the rights for syndication of her show to over 80 countries. Which not only puts her number two on the list of television personalities, but also puts her atop the list of judges’ annual incomes.
And, since you asked, here’s the highest paid actors in movies, as well:
- Keavnu Reeves (The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions) – $20 million + 15% of gross profits, totaling $185 million
- Bruce Willis (The Sixth Sense) – $14 million + 14% of gross profits, totaling $103 million
- Tom Cruise (War of the Worlds) – 20% of gross profits, totaling $100 million
- Bruce Willis (Live Free or Die Hard) – $25 million + 20% of gross profits, totaling $96 million
- Tom Cruis (Mission Impossible: II) – $20 million + 30% of gross profits, totaling $92 million
Not bad for a couple months’ work, huh?