Eve Plumb, 68, revealed how much the cast of The Brady Bunch makes from residuals—and it’s much less than you might expect. “If I had a dime for every rerun episode, I’d pay off the national deficit. I don’t,” Plumb quipped in her memoir. While the Friends cast earns $20 million annually in residuals, The Brady Bunch cast earns $0. “We don’t make residuals,” Plumb, who played Jan Brady, said in an interview with PauseRewind. The hugely popular sitcom, which aired from 1969 to 1974, fell victim to the rules governing residuals before 1975, which only paid cast members for the first 10 reruns. Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady, said her last check came in 1975, stating plainly in a 2013 interview, “We’ve made no money since then.” The salaries also left them much worse off compared with the pay sitcom stars received decades later. Barry Williams, who played Greg Brady in the ABC sitcom, revealed that in their final season, the kids were paid $1,100 a week, totaling about $24,000 for the season’s 22 episodes. “Take into consideration agent commissions, taxes, and the fact that some of the kids were expected to contribute to their families. It was enough to indulge in toys, but hardly enough to carry you through the slow periods that inevitably followed,” Williams said last year on an episode of The Real Brady Bros. podcast.
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