Sarah Jessica Parker’s ‘Sex and the City’ Reboot Salary Is Actually Less Than What She Earned for the Show’s Final Season
As of this writing, Sarah Jessica Parker holds the record for the highest per-episode salary in television history — and she has Sex and The City to thank for this.
During her 6-year stint playing the ultra-fashionable Carrie Bradshaw on the hit HBO series, Parker’s net worth grew substantially as she earned hundreds of millions of dollars for her work on the show. Now that it’s been confirmed that SATC will be returning to the small-screen, those big pay-checks will once again start rolling into Parker’s bank account. However, this time around, she’ll be making a lot less money.
Sarah Jessica Parker will only make $1 million per episode for the reboot
Seventeen years after Sex and the City aired its final episode in 2004, Parker confirmed that the show is officially making its triumphant return for a new chapter called And Just Like That…
In December 2020, media outlets reported that a Sex and the City reboot was in the works for HBO Max. SJP finally confirmed on Instagram in January 2021 that a reboot is underway with all of the original cast members returning, except for Kim Cattrall.
“I couldn’t help but wonder… where are they now? X, SJ,” she captioned an Instagram video of the sounds and sights of New York City.
Since it’s been revealed that SATC will be returning with Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis reprising their iconic characters, more information has been coming out about the highly anticipated reboot — including how much the show’s stars will make this time around.
According to Variety, Parker, Nixon, and Davis are set to take home over $1 million per episode for the 10 episode series. Though that’s plenty of cash to splurge on a couple of Cosmopolitans, this is actually a lot less than what Parker was earning when Sex and the City was at its prime.
Sarah Jessica Parker took home close to $150 million for the last three seasons of ‘SATC’
Sex and the City aired for six seasons on HBO from 1998-2004, and during that time, Parker made a lot of money.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, the actor took home about $50 million for the first three seasons. However, when she became an executive producer on the show in time for Season 4, Parker began earning $3.2 million per episode.
This means that over the course of the 46 episodes in Seasons 4-6, Parker took home a whopping $147 million.
But the money didn’t stop there.
When Parker starred in the Sex and the City movies in 2008 and 2010, her salary was still in the millions. Celebrity Net Worth reports that she earned $15 million for the first film and managed to earn $20 million for the second, despite its poor reviews.
But seeing as Parker produced and starred in both films, it makes total sense why she made a pretty penny from those projects.
With all of the money she made from the Sex and the City franchise, we’re surprised that Parker won’t be making as much from the reboot. But even if her salary stays at $1 million per episode for this revival, SJP will still be rolling in some serious dough!
