[PGR88]

Kibrick said he was earning $750 a week for the shorts, “a lot in those days, especially during the Depression,” he told Thomas.

In 1935 the average annual income for a homeowner was about $1200 per year. For a "sharecropper" (still a category in the census at that time) it was $475

My Dad, as a 30 year-old low-level manager at a steel plant in 1955 (twenty years later), made about $5200 per year.

So YES - that was a lot of money!

[WoofDog123]

it is so much money that i wonder if it is accurate. have any other cast members ever discussed their salaries, i wonder.

It sounds WAYYYY too high, honestly.

[Fledermaus]

Seems a little high.

[Ditto]

My Dad, as a 30 year-old low-level manager at a steel plant in 1955 (twenty years later), made about $5200 per year.

As a kid with a brand new associates degree in 1970, I was making a whopping $5500 a year, and compared to my previous jobs, didn’t know how to spend all that money. ;~)).