--- title: Harrison Ford Will Earn 3,400 Times More for 'Force Awakens' Than Original 'Star Wars' description: Harrison Ford might be making 76 times more than his younger co-stars, but he's making 3,400 more than he did in 1977 when he was unknown. authors: - name: Ethan Wolff-Mann url: https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 160 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/ewolffmann former_staff: true published: '2015-12-21T18:52:54.000Z' modified: '2015-12-21T18:52:54.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Entertainment - Entertainment - millenials - movies - paychecks - pubdesk - wage gap word_count: 272 canonical: https://money.com/harrison-ford-salary-star-wars-1977-force-awakens/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Morning Glory - UK Film Premiere - Outside Arrivals](https://img.money.com/2015/12/gettyimages-107985635.jpg) The Star Wars franchise has a fresh set of faces leading it in its galaxy far, far away, a pair of formerly unknown actors named Daisy Ridley and John Boyega. The pair have picked up where Han Solo, Leia Organa, and Luke Skywalker left off, wearing the trademark earth-toned costumes battling space fascism. And they're doing it cheap: They're making about $446,000 each. Contrasting this to the old guard is interesting: They're being paid paid very, very handsomely, led by Harrison Ford likely making up to $34 million for *The Force Awakens* if (read: when) it makes $1 billion, according to the *[Independent](http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/star-wars-the-force-awakens-harrison-ford-was-paid-76-times-what-newcomers-daisy-ridley-and-john-a6780391.html)*. That's 76 times more than the kids. However, it's probably fair. Considering Harrison Ford had to be brought back to the franchise kicking and screaming because he thinks Han Solo is a shallow character who should have died in *Return of the Jedi* ([spoiler-laden link here](http://www.vox.com/2015/12/19/10624632/star-wars-force-awakens-spoilers)), the fact that he broke his leg during filming, and that he is known as the coolest space cowboy in history who carried the first trilogy, his expected earnings for *Force Awakens* almost seems like a deal. It's also payback of a kind. Back in 1977, Ford was paid just $1,000 per week, [he told *Good Morning America*](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/harrison-ford-paid-1000-week-1st-star-wars/story?id=35507491) earlier this month—around [$10,000 total](http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/harrison-ford-new-star-wars-earns-millions-cast-earns-thousands/). (That's roughly $39k today after adjusting for inflation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Calculator.) Maybe getting a small early-career paycheck will work out similarly for Ridley and Boyega. If Ford's raise over 39 years is anything to go by, they should see a paycheck of around $1.5 billion sometime down the line, in another galaxy far, far away. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/harrison-ford-salary-star-wars-1977-force-awakens/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Movies", "item": "https://money.com/movies/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Harrison Ford Will Earn 3,400 Times More for 'Force Awakens' Than Original 'Star Wars'" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/harrison-ford-salary-star-wars-1977-force-awakens/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/harrison-ford-salary-star-wars-1977-force-awakens/", "name": "Harrison Ford Will Earn 3,400 Times More for 'Force Awakens' Than Original 'Star Wars'", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-12-21T18:52:54.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/harrison-ford-salary-star-wars-1977-force-awakens/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/harrison-ford-salary-star-wars-1977-force-awakens/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2015-12-21T18:52:54.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Harrison Ford Will Earn 3,400 Times More for 'Force Awakens' Than Original 'Star Wars'", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/12/gettyimages-107985635.jpg", "width": 3000, "height": 1998, "caption": "Morning Glory - UK Film Premiere - Outside Arrivals" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ethan Wolff-Mann", "url": "https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/ewolffmann" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-12-21T18:52:54.000Z", "description": "Harrison Ford might be making 76 times more than his younger co-stars, but he's making 3,400 more than he did in 1977 when he was unknown.", "abstract": "Harrison Ford might be making 76 times more than his younger co-stars, but he's making 3,400 more than he did in 1977 when he was unknown.", "@id": "https://money.com/harrison-ford-salary-star-wars-1977-force-awakens/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2015-12-21T18:52:54.000Z", "wordCount": 272, "keywords": [ "Entertainment", "Entertainment", "millenials", "movies", "paychecks", "pubdesk", "wage gap" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Film", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film" ] } ] } ] } ```