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.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median hourly wage for actors as of May 2014 was $19.82 (www.bls.gov). The bottom ten percent of actors earned $9.00 per hour or less, while the top 25% of wage earners made an hourly wage of $49.70 or higher. Employment for this occupation was projected by the BLS to grow at a faster-than-average pace of ten percent between 2014 and 2024.