[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'157787\' date=\'Jul 17 2007, 08:41 PM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'157781\' date=\'Jul 17 2007, 07:41 PM\']
Per Episode, Seacrest (Barker made about $28,500 per ep if the rumors were true)
Per season/year, probably Barker (rumored to be $5M)
Assuming 175 episodes per year, $28,500 * 175 = $4,987,500. That adds up.
Let's say your average daytime network game show emcee was making $5,000 per week in 1980 (Allen Ludden was making $4,500). Adjusted for inflation, that's about $13,400 per week in 2006, or about $700,000 per year. Double that because TPIR is a one-hour show, and it comes out to just under $1,500,000 per year. So the fair market price for a TPIR emcee in 2007 is about $1.5 million, or less than one-third of what Barker was making.
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Note to CBS:
I'll host TPIR for only $500,000...Hell, I'll even host for 1980 Ludden wages ($1800 per hour), plus pay for my travel expenses to & from Colorado and a modest rent-a-car in L.A.!!! :-)
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And I'll announce for scale. Better yet, you can pay me in Twinkies.
