Monday April 20, 2009 at 16:53
“Dave [Letterman] makes a lot more than I do. Way more. And I’m number one. But that’s okaaaay.[…] I’ll tell you how I got the guest—hosting job. There were other guest hosts. And one of the other guys’ managers said, ‘We’ve gotten together with all the guest hosts, and we want $25,000 each time one of our clients does it.’ I said, ‘No.’ They said, ‘How much you asking for?’ I said $515. They said, ‘That’s crazy.’ I said, ‘No, $515 is scale.’”
— Jay Leno, quoted in Michael Hainey, “The Hardest Working Square in Show Business,” GQ
Cool, so if your employer underbids your services for a client and that sets you up for years of underpayment, you’re not screwing yourselves—you’re pulling a Leno.
