How much do commercials pay if you get cast?

Question:Just generally. The very least for an actor starting out and the very most you could get paid.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Just generally. The very least for an actor starting out and the very most you could get paid.

Generally, it could pay anywhere from 5,000 dollars to 5 million dollars...
Depending on how famous you are, if its a principal role or what.
Usually for someone in a principal role, for something like Mr.Clean you might get anywhere from 10,000 dollars for one, or 50,000 for a contract of 3-5 commercials.

It depends. On the lower scale, the money is mostly in how many times the commercial is run. So you might get $1,000 to do a voice over for a radio ad plus $50 every time it's ran. If it's ran 100 times, that's $6,000 total. If you do 10 ads a year at that rate you will be making $60,000 a year for a couple of weeks worth of real work. For TV commercials, you will be making more, but the downside is you are more likely to be asked to do less work so as to prevent "bleeding" of the message. Were you the person selling asprin or the person selling motor oil? To prevent that kind of thing happening, you might get a gig shown in the same region once every two years.

There there is the "It person." Not only do these people do one advertisement, they are the image and voice of the whole advertising account. Those are often multi million dollar projects.

It really just depends. I would ask the agency/business hiring you.

Depends on if they are union, non-union, dealer or national.

National pays residuals for monthly airings. Dealer is a one time fee.

SAG minimum is $600 for one day of 8 hour work.

On a dealer commercial that's all you'd make.

On a national if it runs for a year you can make thousands and thousands in residuals.

A dealer commercial has a 10 second dead spot to flash the local address of the Arbys or Toyota Dealer. No residuals

National is a pure ad start to finish. No local promo.

I know you said generally, but it can really depend.

With a local or regional commercial, you usually get paid a set rate for unlimited showings of the commercial within a certain amount of months.

With national commercials, you get paid for your time filming it, and you get paid residuals every time the commercial airs. If done right, you can make a nice living off of national commericals.