Fox pays Simon Cowell $36 million/year for American Idol

[corporate_mike]

http://www3.contactmusic.com/news/index36.htm

[corporate_mike]

1. Nice job if you can get it

[MadHound]

3. Damn nice job!

You get to insult and berate dozens of people on a weekly basis, and get paid the big bucks to do so. Hell, for half that money I would insult and berate twice the number of people Simon does, and I'm damn good at it when pressed.

[redqueen]

2. Shouldn't this be in the Lounge?

:shrug:

[KamaAina]

4. "Quite possibly the most overpaid hack in all of human history."

"All over America, people are ripping up their pay stubs into tiny little pieces of confetti." </cowell>

[corporate_mike]

5. Cowell dropped out of secondary school at the age of 16

[Old and In the Way]

6. Another example of how worthless the USD is.

$36MM to critique a talent show? Sorry, our priorities/values are totally screwed in this country.

[rinsd]

10. Sigh......

He is the show's producer and creator. Shouldn't he get the lion's share of the profits?

Or is it better for News Corp to get them?

[Old and In the Way]

13. Sure!

My snark was misplaced. I think it's a sad indictment of our society and its misplaced values when this guy can make $30+MM producing crap. Just my opinion, though.

[corporate_mike]

14. Teachers, police officers, fire fighters make less than $50K/yr

[begin_within]

17. He's been battling the show's creator, Simon Fuller, over credits and $$$

[Marnieworld]

7. But that is not just for his "on camera" work

He is a producer and creator of a phenomenonally successful show. Compared to the revenues it makes I'm sure that is just a fraction. It makes sense to me.

[corporate_mike]

9. With that logic, Exxon's CEO should have been paid a lot more

[Blue_Tires]

8. don't the writers for the simpsons get a mil per episode?

that could work out to 30+ mil per year

[rinsd]

11. No way the writers get paid that much, maybe the voice talent

And even that sounds high.

[DS1]

12. I'd do his job twice a good as he does it, for half the price

[bridgit]

15. he must have a great agent...

[begin_within]

16. Well, to put it one way...

[tuvor]

18. 30+ million phone-votes per week?

I don't know what AI's cut is, but I have a hunch it's easily afforded.

He's a well-paid entertainer, just like so many others.

[Mojambo]

19. That's immoral. n/t