How much?

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Smileeys

Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 10:50 pm Click here to edit this post
Does anyone know how much players get paid for doing this? Big Brother was $750 a week - do you get anything with this one or is it only the winner that wins any money???

Voyeur

Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 11:06 pm Click here to edit this post
The winners get a million dollars.

Sunshinemiss

Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 11:35 pm Click here to edit this post
Well Smileeys my guess is as far as weekly stipend goes, not likely. If there is an additional prize they haven't announced it... I suspect the only reason we found out about the weekly stipend on BB2 was the fact that the HG's discussed it and as such it was overheard on the feeds.

Since this game happens in "real time" of about 2 weeks, I doubt they get any other pay than the daily travel expenses. But this is all JMHO.

Anybody have any more concrete info?

Badgercubs

Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 12:24 am Click here to edit this post
I would guess they do get a weekly stipend. They did on the Mole. Each team got paid depending on how long they stayed in the game.

Sandyc

Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 10:32 am Click here to edit this post
What money are they spending? Were they given an allowance or are they spending their own money for taxis etc.

Voyeur

Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 10:46 am Click here to edit this post
They receive a certain amount of cash in the packets they start each leg with. They have to use this money for everything except airfare. I'm not sure if they get to keep any leftovers for the next leg or not.

Cinder

Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 11:55 am Click here to edit this post
I also wondered about keeping leftover money. In the first episode some were concerned about running out. No one seems to have that concern now.
Also the players are NEVER shown exchanging the money. The grandparents mentioned it on the Early Show this morning. Evidently they had tried exchanging before getting off the boat and there was no time afterwards. Or maybe in the previous countries they were able to use American money with the taxis. In my experience traveling to Europe I never tried using American money for fear they would try to take advantage of me.

Voyeur

Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 01:01 pm Click here to edit this post
In most places, they will accept American dollars, but at a premium. If the exchange is 1.6 dinars to the dollar, they probably could have easily found someone to exchange one for one. They only needed 6 dinars.

Most retail type businesses here in Washington state used to accept Canadian dollars (at a modest premium) until the Canadian dollar started getting too volatile and it became a hassle to keep track of the exchange rate. When the Canadian dollar and American dollar were closer in value, small amounts of coins used to be accepted as equivalent, and I'd often get Canadian coins in my change, and could use them without difficulty just about anywhere. Once things settled down again, the use of credit cards had become a lot more widespread, so not accepting Canadian money wasn't costing businesses money.

In some places you don't want to exchange at a bank because the official exchange rate is poor compared to what you can get on the street.

Cinder

Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 06:03 pm Click here to edit this post
When I lived in North Dakota retail stores accepted Canadian money and vice versa.

Tbear

Sunday, October 07, 2001 - 11:24 pm Click here to edit this post
Smileeys,

Do you mean that EACH player on BB received an additional $750 per week to take home, aside fromthe money they did challenges for food????

Judy

Monday, October 08, 2001 - 05:11 am Click here to edit this post
Tbear: YUP!

Seamonkey

Monday, October 08, 2001 - 07:22 pm Click here to edit this post
Nic and Will didn't get the stipend, since they
won prizes at the end, Kent did get the stipend and the car so came in third, money wise.

Smileeys

Saturday, October 13, 2001 - 07:07 pm Click here to edit this post
Yes, Tbear (as Judy and Seamonkey has stated) everyone but W and N got a stipend of $750 a week for each week they were on the show.

And I was wondering if the contestants on this show is receiving anything similiar. I appreciate the responses - it seems there is not any official word on what they do receive, if anything.