I'd wager that she probably didn't even make $1000/week...then agents/publicists take a big chunk, and as a minor, he parents probably took, and spent, whatever was left..
She had no career to speak of after the series ended..and she never got a piece of the royalties...the renewals everytime a program airs in syndication/reruns..that's where the REAL $$$ is..
She left for a season to do “Joanie loves Chachi” and it flopped and they came back for the final season or something
Well, yeah, actually she did. It is standard in the contract for any working SAG or AFTRA members.The royalties would dwindle over time.
A no name featured actor shooting a national commercial could realize 50 to 75 k over half of which is residuals.
The ones that really got screwed over where those in the 30's like Our Gang and the Bowery Boys.
Happy Days ended in 1984, when she was 24, and her acting gigs were few after that. She was still young, she could have gone to college, gotten a degree in something useful, and had a life. She chose not to.
“I’d wager that she probably didn’t even make $1000/week”
Her bio says she made $900 per episode in 1974. So, yeah, after everyone else took their cut she got minimum wage. Hollywood has always been a greedy liberal place.