EXCLUSIVE: This should go nicely towards college tuition — after month-long salary renegotiations, the child stars of ABC hit Modern Family are finalizing new deals with series producer 20th Century Fox TV that will come with much bigger paychecks. I hear Rico Rodriguez, 14, who plays Gloria’s (Sofia Vergara) wise-beyond-his-years son Manny; Nolan Gould, 13, who plays the Dunphys’ dim-witted son Luke; Ariel Winter, 14, who plays his book-smart sister Alex; and Sarah Hyland, 21, who plays their college-bound older sister Haley, will be making in the neighborhood of $70,000 an episode, about tripling their current salaries. Hyland, who is the oldest of the juvenile Modern Family cast members and had bigger prior credits, has been getting slightly more than her young co-stars, but I hear there will likely be parity among the quartet going forward. Rodriguez, Gould and Winter negotiated together, while Hyland’s reps handled her talks separately.
As for Modern Family‘s other kid actor, five-year-old Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, who joined last fall as Cameron and Mitchell’s adopted daughter, replacing the twins who played the role early on, I hear her agents too tried to renegotiate her deal but that didn’t happen as she has been on the show only one season.
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The salary renegotiations for the young cast of Modern Family were much faster and far less dramatic than the talks between their adult counterparts and 20th TV, which dragged on for months and escalated into a standoff, garnered with a boycotted table read and a lawsuit, before an agreement was reached exactly a month ago. Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet and Sofia Vergara, who negotiated together, are now making in the $170,000-180,000 range per episode, up from $65,000, with built-in sizable year-to-year increases and a small piece of the series’ lucrative back-end.





The “kids” besides Sofia Vergara & Ty Burrell are the only reason to watch this over-glorified series.
The main cast has 10 actors, you watch the show because of six of them. Do the math. Damn, you watch the show because you LIKE it, just say it.
That the reps of the little girl who plays Mitch and Cameron’s daughter tried to renegotiate made me laugh out loud.
Yes, I like the new Lily, but she appears far less than the other four “kids”. She is probably still “replaceable” at this point.
Me too. Were they honestly thinking that small child would actually get a salary bump or they just wanted to join in on the fun? It’s so funny.
So glad your negativity is not contagious. Go MODERN FAMILY!!!
Excellent show and the kids are outstanding in their roles. Congratulations and I look forward to this upcoming season.
Although these kids are good they cannot hold a candle to the kids on THE MIDDLE. Go Sue Heck!
Good for the children, if the overrated adults got raises, everyone deserves raises, but to be honest this show jumped the shark after season 2, and I will not be watching this season, especially since much better shows, such as Patks and Recreatiom and Community are still being ignored by the public and the Emmys.
I wonder what the adult cast needs to do to fulfill their part in their contracts, like physical appearance clauses in part of their contracts. That stuff scares me…
I love this show and do not think that Aubrey Anderson-Emmons is replacable at all. She’s adorable and a good little actress at 5 years old. Parks and Recreation is a total yawn, in my opinion.
It is only far the kids get a payrise as well, especially since the adults got a pay rise
If Manny speaks without his Hispanic accent, why doesn’t Gloria speak without her Hispanic accent?
Because he was raised in America and she was raised in Columbia.