DAYS: Contract Guarantee Estimates for 2012-2013

[JAS0N47]

ONE YEAR CONTRACT CYCLES & GUARANTEE ESTIMATES (BASED ON AIRDATES):

Kristian Alfonso (Hope):
July 2011-June 2012: 151 episodes = Guarantee: 3 per week
July 2012-June 2013 (so far): 51 episodes (1st 6 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 2 per week

Camila Banus (Gabi):
October 2011-September 2012: 81 episodes = Guarantee: 1.5 per week
October 2012-September 2013 (so far): 40 episodes (1st 3 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 3 per week

Blake Berris (Nick):
August 2012-July 2013 (so far): 52 episodes (1st 4 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 3 per week

Shawn Christian (Daniel):
May 2011-April 2012: 108 episodes = Guarantee: 2 per week
May 2012-April 2013 (so far): 93 episodes (1st 8 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 3 per week

Bryan Dattilo (Lucas):
February 2012-January 2013 (so far): 81 episodes (1st 11 months)= Estimated Guarantee: 2 per week

Eileen Davidson (Kristen):
October 2012-September 2013 (so far): 45 episodes (1st 3 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 3.5 per week

Casey Deidrick (Chad):
August 2011-July 2012: 92 episodes = Guarantee: 2 per week
August 2012-July 2013 (so far): 47 episodes (1st 5 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 2.5 per week

Galen Gering (Rafe):
December 2011-November 2012: 157 episodes = Guarantee: 3 per week
December 2012-November 2013 (so far): 10 episodes (1st month) = Estimated Guarantee: 3 per week

Deidre Hall (Marlena):
October 2011-September 2012: 120 episodes = Guarantee: 2.5 per week
October 2012-September 2013 (so far): 38 episodes (1st 3 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 3 per week

Drake Hogestyn (John):
October 2011-September 2012: 111 episodes = Guarantee: 2 per week
October 2012-September 2013 (so far): 37 episodes (1st 3 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 3 per week

Lauren Koslow (Kate):
April 2011-March 2012: 90 episodes = Guarantee: 2 per week
April 2012-March 2013 (so far): 56 episodes (1st 9 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 1.5 per week

Kate Mansi (Abigail):
March 2011-February 2012: 105 episodes = Guarantee: 2 per week
March 2012-February 2013 (so far): 71 episodes (1st 10 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 2 per week

Eric Martsolf (Brady):
January 2012-December 2012: 103 episodes = Guarantee: 2 per week
January 2013-December 2013: TBA (at least 2 per week)

Joseph Mascolo (Stefano):
October 2011-September 2012: 59 episodes = Guarantee: Unknown (partially on leave)
October 2012-September 2013 (so far): 11 episodes (1st 3 months) = Guarantee: Unknown (partially on leave)

Chandler Massey (Will):
March 2011-February 2012: 87 episodes = Guarantee: 2 per week
March 2012-February 2013 (so far): 111 episodes (1st 10 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 2.5 per week

Peggy McCay (Caroline):
March 2011-February 2012: 22 episodes = Guarantee: Unknown (partially on leave)
March 2012-February 2013 (so far): 34 episodes (1st 10 months) = Guarantee: Unknown (partially on leave)

Nathan Owens (Cameron):
(**Schuyler Yancey did 39 episodes over 8 months...Estimated Guarantee: 1 per week)
December 2012-November 2013: 2 episodes (1st week) = Estimated Guarantee: 1 or 1.5 per week

Melissa Reeves (Jennifer):
December 2011-November 2012: 103 episodes = Guarantee: 2 per week
December 2012-November 2013 (so far): 14 episodes (1st month) = Estimated Guarantee: 2.5 or 3 per week

James Reynolds (Abe):
April 2011-March 2012: 63 episodes = Guarantee: 1 per week
April 2012-March 2013 (so far): 44 episodes (1st 9 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 1 per week

Lisa Rinna (Billie):
March 2012-February 2013 (so far): 44 episodes (1st 10 months) = 1 per week (last airs 1/30/13)

Suzanne Rogers (Maggie):
September 2011-August 2012: 62 episodes = Guarantee: 1 per week
September 2012-August 2013 (so far): 37 episodes (1st 4 months): 2 per week

James Scott (E.J.):
August 2011-July 2012: 165 episodes = Guarantee: 3 per week
August 2012-July 2013 (so far): 61 episodes (1st 5 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 3 per week

Freddie Smith (Sonny):
July 2011-June 2012: 53 episodes = Guarantee: 1 per week
July 2012-June 2013 (so far): 51 episodes (1st 6 months) = Estimated Guarantee: 2 per week

Alison Sweeney (Sami):
April 2011-March 2012: 139 episodes = Guarantee: 2.5 per week
April 2012-March 2013 (so far): 135 episodes (1st 9 months): Estimated Guarantee: 3.5 per week

Josh Taylor (Roman):
September 2011-August 2012: 67 episodes = Guarantee: 1.5 per week
September 2012-August 2013 (so far): 13 episodes (1st 4 months): Estimated Guarantee: 1 per week

Greg Vaughan (Eric):
November 2012-October 2013 (so far): 25 episodes = Estimated Guarantee: 2 or 2.5 per week

Arianne Zucker (Nicole):
June 2011-May 2012: 131 episodes = Guarantee: 2.5 per week
June 2012-May 2013 (so far): 86 episodes (1st 7 months): Estimated Guarantee: 3 per week

[Chris B]

How much do yall think someone like Lisa Rinna got paid per episode? Seems crazy to think she signed a contract with such a small guarantee, but of course they could've extended it if they wanted to.

[SFK]

I'll guess around 5k/day? That's me factoring in her "name" and primetime notoriety and the current state of soap budgets.

[Cheap21]

and some days she'd literally randomly pop in for 20 seconds and then disappear! She really got a good deal

[JackPeyton]

Lisa has said she went back to days after not acting for so long to get back into it and see what happened, shes a smart business woman and never came across as wanting to become a lead so im sure her contract was def for a low ep but i doubt she made a ton off it either.

Some of the younger set id bet have a higher guarantee than listed but ended up being used less.

[KMan101]

Interesting list. Thanks so much Jason. Always interesting to look at.

You can clearly tell who got a boost in the last few months. LOL.

I think episode guarantees are kinda ridiculous. I get it and why but I think the way soaps are run needs an overhaul. I'm sure massive budget changes could eventually save them money. I think there should be, yeah, some kind of episode guarantee but at the same time, a base salary of some sort so characters can be used how they need to be used. Having so many characters only allowed 8 episodes a month really isn't very good when you have 5-10 people at 12-15 a month. I guess it helps, somewhat, explain a little bit of the isolation.

Oy, sorry for the runon LOL. I don't even know if any of that made sense.

[JAS0N47]

Lisa's doing Celebrity Apprentice for the second time now, so I think she's more concerned nowadays with just being in the spotlight, rather than how much her guarantee is.

[JAS0N47]

Not probably too much higher. "Days" doesn't have the budget to be paying people and not using them. They have to pay what the guarantee is, so they need to use up every episode they can or lower the guarantee.

[JAS0N47]

For those who haven't seen them before, here are some contract guarantees (the real ones) from 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973:

Please note, these guarantee charts were prepared for 13-week cycles, so the guarantees are for just one 13-week cycle...multiply by four to get the annual guarantee numbers.

1969, 1970, 1973: http://www.jason47.com/days/contractstatusreports.html'>http://www.jason47.com/days/contractstatusreports.html

1972: http://www.jason47.com/jason47b/images/1972guarantees.jpg'>http://www.jason47.com/jason47b/images/1972guarantees.jpg

[KMan101]

Oh how cool to see that Jason.