Game of Thrones cast getting pay bump for season 7 and 8

It should secure them until the show concludes

Game of Thrones has continued to be phenomenally popular and therefore lucrative with season 6, so the cast are getting a bigger piece of the pie.

According to Deadline, its main actors Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) will earn more than $500,000 an episode for the already commissioned season 7 and almost certainly set to be announced season 8.

That amounts to a tidy $5 million each a season, although the final two are actually expected to be shorter than the usual 10 episodes, possibly each consisting of seven.

The successful salary negotiations are sure to secure the key cast members until the show finishes up, though of course the news assumes that all of their characters will live to see these remaining seasons.

The cast’s last bump is believed to have been in 2014, when their per-episode wages increased to $300,000.

Despite the show’s immense popularity, big award hauls and critical acclaim, it’s not the highest-paying TV series out there. After infamously protracted negotiations, The Big Bang Theory cast are thought to currently be earning $1 million an episode.