According to salary.com, the salaries of TV dads have more than doubled since the early days of television:
Since the 1980s, when TV saw dads like Philip Drummond of “Diff’rent Strokes” and Cliff Huxtable of “The Cosby Show” start to earn higher incomes, TV dad salaries have been on the rise. Salary.com’s team of compensation experts studied a sampling of 60 TV fathers from the most popular television shows over the past six decades. Today’s TV dads have an average salary of $195,000 per year, which is more than twice the salary of their 1950’s counterparts, who were earning the equivalent of $75,000 (in 2005 dollars).
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We ranked a sampling of 60 TV dad salaries from popular shows since the 1950s. Ten dads were used in each decade in order to compute the TV dad salary average. Based on jobs and salaries, Hollywood’s depiction of popular fathers has been moving up the corporate ladder at a rate of about 21 percent per decade.
Pretty interesting…
