Yahoo Lifestyle How Much Money Do Emmy Winners Make? Asking for My Close and Personal Friend, Ayo Edebiri.
The 2024 Emmy Awards are HERE and as we marvel at all of our fave TV stars as they hit the red carpet, we couldn't be more excited to see what unfolds at the show this year.
At the 2023 Emmys—which took place in January of this year due to delays from actors' and writers' strikes—stars like Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, and Jennifer Coolidge snagged the iconic Emmy statuette, and you might be wondering how much $$$ they received, too.
TL;DR: winning an Emmy doesn't necessarily come with a cute paycheck, but that doesn't mean the honorees can't get their money up. Here's everything we know about how much Emmy winners take home.
How much money do Emmy winners make?
So... Emmy winners *technically* don't get paid for earning the award. It's kind of like the Olympics, where athletes compete and earn their medals with no cash prize, or the Super Bowl Halftime Show performer, who is not paid.
How! Ever! Like Olympians, there's still an opportunity for Emmy winners to up their rates thanks to the ~prestige~ that comes with recognition from the Television Academy. Long story short, they can get paid more for winning an Emmy if they use that to negotiate higher $$$ from the projects they take on as an Emmy Award winner. Make sense?
So how much is an Emmy Award worth, then?
Great Q! According to the Los Angeles Times, the gorgeous Emmy statuettes are made out of copper and nickel... but they're also dipped in liquid gold (casual!). The outlet reports that manufacturing costs around $300 to $400 and the award weighs 128 ounces. As of September 2024, an ounce of gold is worth $2,520 per APMEX.
If the math is mathing, that means Emmys would be worth $322,560 if they were made of solid gold.
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