How much Stranger Things cast have made in total across all five seasons
It's been a very good career move for those involved
Stranger Things is over and while the finale was not everyone's cup of tea, we're not talking about a disaster of epic proportions here.
Plenty of people liked it, some didn't and even if there are quite a few things which it seemingly forgot to resolve, the final episode was a pretty fun watch.
If you'd gone back to that distant world gone by of 2016 and told your past selves that Stranger Things would just be wrapping up the end of the fifth season by the start of 2026, they'd likely have been quite sceptical, but the Netflix show did finally manage to make it over the finish line.
Weirdly enough, there are some folks who seem convinced the show is not yet over and are certain there's a secret final episode coming soon, but this might just be a coping mechanism for viewers who wanted something from the show it wasn't going to give them.
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It's introduced some new stars to Hollywood and kept plenty of people in good paid employment for several years, but exactly how much everyone was getting paid is a matter of some discussion.
Winona Ryder and David Harbour
According to The Direct, Ryder and Harbour were 'tier one' actors who basically got paid the most for being in the show, with them reportedly on $350,000 per episode by the start of season three and earning $9.5 million apiece for the fifth and final season.
Joyce and Hopper have been the main characters all the way through the show and, as such, are top of the tree when it comes to salaries, with them each reportedly making around $17 million from their overall time on the show.
Ryder was reportedly the highest paid star on the show, fitting her reputation in the entertainment industry.
Part of the early pull of Stranger Things was 'hey look, Netflix have got Winona Ryder in a TV show'.
Millie Bobby Brown
Front and centre of so much of the action in Stranger Things is Eleven herself.
The show's child stars started off making between $20,000 and $30,000 an episode, but their pay jumped up dramatically as the seasons went on.
The Hollywood Reporter claimed that the younger actors were on this amount early on, but that Millie Bobby Brown negotiated her own deal with Netflix over pay rather than being sorted into a pay band with the rest of her co-stars.
She was working on other Netflix projects alongside Stranger Things, so the amount she's made from the show is not known, but given the pay rises that the rest of the cast enjoyed, you'd expect she did rather well out of it.
The rest of the kids
If Ryder and Harbour were the top tier of talent to be paid, then the precocious young stars Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp and Caleb McLaughlin are in the second tier.
Like Millie Bobby Brown they would have been on between $20,000 and $30,000 an episode for the first couple of seasons, but Deadline reported that from season three onwards their pay jumped up to $250,000 per episode.
Sadie Sink would join this bunch later on, and The Direct claims that this lot got $7 million for their part in the fifth and final season.
As such, those who have been on the show right from the beginning would have made over $11 million for being in it.
The teenagers
They might be a bit older, but Natalia Dyer, Joe Keery and Charlie Heaton are reportedly paid in a third tier, which meant they were getting $150,000 per episode from season three onwards, which is when Maya Hawke was added to the show.
Meanwhile, their pay reportedly jumped up to $750,000 an episode for the final season, meaning they will have made around $8.5 million from Stranger Things, though Hawke would have a little less due to not being in the first two seasons.
Everyone else below this bunch wasn't paid quite as much.
Tristan Spohn appeared in five episodes of the show's fourth season as he played Two, another one of the children kept in the Hawkins lab and experimented on.
He explained he was paid around $15,000 per episode of Stranger Things, as he was listed down as a 'recurring guest star', so he was a few tiers below the main cast when it came to getting paid.
Topics: Netflix, Stranger Things, TV, Money
Joe Harker