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Eve Plumb Reveals Surprising Residual Pay From Brady Bunch Reruns
Cast members said the show paid modest salaries and residuals dried up after early reruns, with the highest-earning child making just over $24,000.
- Despite The Brady Bunch's enduring popularity on cable, cast members receive no ongoing residuals, with Eve Plumb recently stating, "We don't make residuals."
- Barry Williams wrote in Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg that 1970s payment structures differed from today; rerun payments "dried up shortly after we finished filming."
- The highest child actor salary during the final season was $1,100 weekly, totaling just over $24,000, while Susan Olsen noted the cast was only "paid for reruns for the first 10 runs."
- Plumb noted that audiences assume the cast earned significant wealth because "People do tend to assume that we made a lot of money off 'The Brady Bunch' because it's on all the time."
- Separate from acting income, Plumb sold a Malibu beachfront home purchased in 1969 for $55,300, unloading it for $3.9 million in 2016.
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Eve Plumb Drops Sad 'Brady Bunch' Money Confession
Majil / AFF-USA.com / MEGA For decades, “The Brady Bunch” has remained one of television’s most replayed family sitcoms, turning its cast into permanent pop culture icons long after the series ended. However, behind the nostalgia and endless reruns, one of the show’s stars is revealing a much sadder reality. Eve Plumb recently admitted that despite the sitcom’s lasting success across generations, the actors are no longer seeing meaningful mone…
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