--- title: Here's What Every Single Person in a $200M Movie Gets Paid description: Vanity Fair made a faux-end credits scene that depicts how much the cast and crew earns in a movie with a $200 million dollar budget. 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: '2016-06-08T14:38:57.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T02:12:59.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Entertainment - movies - pubdesk - salary - wage gap word_count: 263 canonical: https://money.com/movie-actor-pay-big-budget-film/ 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/). !["Worlds, Galaxies, And Universes: Live Action At The Walt Disney Studios" Presentation At Disney's D23 EXPO 2015](https://img.money.com/2016/06/gettyimages-484145912.jpg) *ANAHEIM, CA - AUGUST 15: (L-R) Actors Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Lupita Nyong'o, Daisy Ridley, director J.J. Abrams and actor Harrison Ford of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."* The list of credits at the end of a massive summer movie is very long—a $200 million budget buys you a lot of labor. If you've ever wondered who makes how much in a movie like *Star Wars: The Force Awakens*, *Iron Man 3,* or a Daniel Craig James Bond movie, *Vanity Fair* just created a faux credit sequence that reads like a receipt. Now we can actually see how much that [Key Grip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip) makes. [Watch video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnTF3guz7EQ) Being a hypothetical movie, it's obviously an approximation, but it's interesting to see the monetary hierarchy in the movie business. Here are a few examples: **Director:** $4 million **Executive Producer #1:** $1.1 million **Executive Producer #2:** $1.0 million **Producers:** $1 million **Top-Billed Writer:** $3.25 million **Other Writers:** $900,000, $250,000 **Director of Photography:** $900,000 **Production Designer:** $779,688 **Lead Actor #1:** $12 milion **Lead Actor #2:** $4.5 million **Lead Actor #3:** $1.5 million **Dialect Coach for Lead Actor #3:** $45,800 **Assistant #2 for Lead Actor #1:** $34,000 **Parking Coordinator:** $35,040 While the Vanity Fair credits do illustrate interesting tidbits of the film industry (star-cameo can net $75,000?), its politically correct un-gendered terminology for job titles (all genders are "actor") does mean that no light is shed on the controversies regarding the Hollywood pay gaps for women. As Jennifer Lawrence [wrote last year in Lena Dunham's Lenny newsletter](https://time.com/4071213/jennifer-lawrence-lenny/), she—and most women—are paid less than male counterparts, even if they've received the most coveted award for acting—a golden statue of a man—and are a huge draw at the box office. 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