Is historical information available for WDW Cast Member (CM) pay and benefits? What typically did CMs make in the 1970s, 1980s, etc. vs. today?
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Cast Member Pay
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Iger does. Last year it was $40 million.
lazyboy97o
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Equivalent to $9.06/hr today.
G00fyDad
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So sometime in the past 38 years Disney has come to think less of it's CM's?? It couldn't be!
Minimum wage in 1971 (when WDW opened) was $1.60/hr, about $9.17/hr today.
I'm hoping a current CM might be able to provide more recent pay data. Don't starting CMs get paid more than minimum wge? What's the current pay scale? What have recent pay increases been?So sometime in the past 38 years Disney has come to think less of it's CM's?? It couldn't be!
Bloopers
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I get paid 7.83 an hr. (College program students get paid a few cents less since min. wage increased this year, LOL...) Each shift is 6 hours. Takes me 40 minutes to get there WITHOUT traffic. Leave 1.5 hours before work. After taxes, about 40 bucks a day. And they talk about overtime pay blah blah blah, but to get overtime seems to be such a feat.
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G00fyDad
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I get paid 7.83 an hr. (College program students get paid a few cents less since min. wage increased this year, LOL...) Each shift is 6 hours. Takes me 40 minutes to get there WITHOUT traffic. Leave 1.5 hours before work. After taxes, about 40 bucks a day. And they talk about overtime pay blah blah blah, but to get overtime seems to be such a feat.
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I didn't think that they paid worth a crap. Seems like I remember a bus driver once saying that they only made $9.00/hr.
Bloopers
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I didn't think that they paid worth a crap. Seems like I remember a bus driver once saying that they only made $9.00/hr.
The only people that gets paid well are the ones in air conditioned rooms sitting on their butts all day
I'm in school so I'm treating the job as a hobby, however, I know people who are working at that rate and trying to make a living from it. IDK how they do it. I know a girl who depends on Disney to make a living and she's a part-time cast member.. been trying to get 'promoted' to full time for quite a while already.
G00fyDad
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The only people that gets paid well are the ones in air conditioned rooms sitting on their butts all day
I'm in school so I'm treating the job as a hobby, however, I know people who are working at that rate and trying to make a living from it. IDK how they do it. I know a girl who depends on Disney to make a living and she's a part-time cast member.. been trying to get 'promoted' to full time for quite a while already.
And as I remember the cost of living in Florida (even up in Jacksonville where I lived) was not cheap. $7+ per hour is not enough here where I live right now and it is cheaper to live here than in Florida.
lazyboy97o
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I believe a bus driver is one of the higher paid, if not the highest, of the entry level positions. It also requires having the appropriate license.I didn't think that they paid worth a crap. Seems like I remember a bus driver once saying that they only made $9.00/hr.
litaljohn
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do "performing cast members" get paid better? I remember back when AK first opened and they had the warden type person that caught the poachers at the end of the safari with a fake gun (that later became a Walkie talkie) if your entire day comprised of getting yelled at, "but is little red okay!?!l" fighting that urge to just once in a while pull the canvas on the trucksdo it hides the animatronic and just sadly yelling back " we....we tried..... we did everything we could..." you fight that urge all day, you deserve like a thousand dollars each day, I would never make it past the first hour.
G00fyDad
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JAG107
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Not sure if this is o/t, but in 1999 I started in attractions at DL @ $7.21, and top rate at the time was $10.24, which dropped to $9.94 in 2003 IIRC. Top rate in the late 80's was around $9 I believe, so not a lot of raises in the past 20+ years. WDW pays slightly less than the CA parks I believe...
Bloopers
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Typically, yes, they do get paid better. I think it said on the website that the starting rate for look-alike roles is 12.40/hr. I say 'typically' because my friend works at "The Great Movie" ride and she gets paid the same hourly rate (7.83/hr more or less) for the acting roles implemented on that ride too.
Bloopers
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I used to live in Jacksonville! But yeah, the cost of living here isn't exactly cheap. And we all know how sucky gas prices are these days... Costs me $50 to fill a tank and I fill it about once a week. People don't work at Disney to be rich, they work there cause they enjoy making people happy!