How Much Is Alex Trebek Really Worth?
Alex Trebek appears on TV for 30 minutes a day, five days a week, for well over 30 years, but it's the magic of television and saving shows to videotape that gives the allusion he's on that Jeopardy! set every single day like some kind of 9-to-5 working stiff. The Jeopardy! crew shoots an entire season's worth of shows — about 230 episodes — in just 46 days. Those four dozen or so shifts find Trebek working his way through five episodes each and every day. So while the hours are good, the pay is amazing. According to The Atlantic, Trebek earns an annual salary of $10 million to remind contestants to phrase their response in the form of a question and to tell them, "Right. Pick again!"
That works out to a little over $217,000 per day of work, or just under $44,000 per episode. In other words, most days on Jeopardy! the life-changing amount of money procured by the winning contestant isn't as much as Trebek took home just for doing his job. According to Forbes, he's the highest-paid game show host on TV.
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