If it were a single crystal it would be the worldâs. largest by a considerable margin. Incidentally, if you want to buy large crystals for your basement, a dealer at. the last Tucson Mineral show had a 17,600 lb. quartz crystal for sale for only. 2Â½ cents per carat.
That's more than most of the below-the-line talent featured in this story and twice as much as the average actor, who earns $52,000, according to SAG-AFRTA. But most animals work for peanuts: The day rate for a dog or cat in Hollywood is $400, with most earning $5,000 to $10,000 a year.
Averages. Actors averaged a mean $33.82 per hour in 2011, according to the BLS. The lowest-paid 10 percent made $8.79 hourly, and the highest-paid 10 percent earned over $90 hourly. Most worked in the motion picture and video industries to make a mean hourly $43.33.However, independent actors made the highest average pay at $45.39 per hour.Other typical employers and average salaries were performing arts companies, which offered $21.15 per hour, television broadcasting with $24.84 hourly and radio broadcasting with $24.83 per hour.n the opposite coast, the Hollywood area theater contract defined pay based on box office weekly gross and theater size. For example, actors in theaters with up to 199 seats whose productions earned $25,000 or less per week earned a minimum $343 per week.