CBS Paramount is asking the on-air talent on the majority of its dramas to forgo their annual raises and keep their salaries flat next season. (Multiyear contracts typically have standard yearly increases built in.) The unprecedented move, part of an overall cost-cutting measure, is an effort to keep budgets down at the CSIs, NCIS, Numb3rs, and their kin, and prevent further behind-the-scenes layoffs. (CBS dramas produced by outside studios -- i.e., Ghost Whisperer, The Mentalist, and Without a Trace -- won't be affected.)

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Good - now they'll know how the rest of us feel!!!

Good - now they'll know how the rest of us feel!!!
:yeahthat

Good. All the networks should be doing that. In fact, I think the salaries ought to be decreased. No one should be earning thousands or millions of dollars for playing "Pretend" while the rest of us struggle to get by working real jobs.

Good. All the networks should be doing that. In fact, I think the salaries ought to be decreased. No one should be earning thousands or millions of dollars for playing "Pretend" while the rest of us struggle to get by working real jobs.
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I agree, why should behind the scenes employees be continually fired just so the actors can get their raises?

I'd love to make what the actors do, we're lucky to get a 3% raiser per year.

I agree, why should behind the scenes employees be continually fired just so the actors can get their raises?
EXACTLY!!! :clap