The stars of Strictly Come Dancing reportedly earn a flat fee for appearing on the show, with the amount increasing the further they make it in the competition.
It is claimed the professionals are paid between £35,000 to £50,000 to appear on the show, and they can earn a further £35,000 if they are asked to perform on the Strictly live tour after the series, according to The Sun.
Meanwhile, the famous contestants are said to be paid the same flat fee each, starting at a minimum of £25,000 even if they leave in the first week.
If they make it to week four, they get an additional £40,000, and if they take part in the Blackpool special and the quarter final they get £60,000.
The semi-finalists reportedly bank £75,000 and the winner is said to get a massive £100,000.
Big bucks: The stars of Strictly Come Dancing reportedly earn a flat fee for appearing on the show, with the amount increasing the further they make it in the competition (actor Bobby Brazier and his professional partner Dianne Buswell pictured on show)
Raking it in: The famous contestants are said to be paid the same flat fee each, starting at a minimum of £25,000 even if they leave in the first week (Reality star Zara McDermot and her professional partner Graziano Di Prima pictured on Strictly)
A Strictly spokesperson declined to comment when contacted by MailOnline.
The competitors are expected to put multiple hours into rehearsing with their professional partners each week before performing live on BBC One every Saturday.
Each week, the professionals choreograph the routines and they may also appear on BBC Two spin-off show Strictly: It Takes Two.
It comes after it was reported the Strictly Come Dancing judgers were locked in a pay row with show bosses ahead of this year’s series.
Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke were allegedly looking to received an 11 percent salary rise ahead of the BBC dance competition show’s new season.
But according to The Sun they accepted an offer of between 3 and 5 per cent.
Head judge Shirley is reportedly already earning £500,000, Motsi and Craig rake in £200,000, while Anton is believed to be on £180,000.
A source told the publication ‘There was a real stand off between the judges and the Beeb on this issue, with neither side willing to budge for weeks.
All over: The Strictly Come Dancing judges reportedly recently backed down amid their pay row with BBC bosses
Huge: Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke were allegedly looking to receive an 11 per cent salary rise
‘Thankfully they reached this resolution and are now breathing a sigh of relief and able to look forward to the new series.
‘The show simply felt that curing a cost of living crisis, and at a time when the licence fee has been frozen, they couldn’t justify an 11 per cent rise.’
The insider added that those involved with the show began to feel like the pay row was becoming a distraction from the upcoming 21st series this autumn.
The BBC was contacted by MailOnline for comment on the matter.
It comes after the show’s professional dancers reportedly slammed the judges for demanding a huge pay rise.
Despite training for long hours, the dancers – who include Giovanni Pernice, Dianne Buswell and Johannes Radebe – are paid flat fees of around £35,000 for their work on the programme.
The dancers apparently took to their group chat on WhatsApp in the wake of the news to slam the judges and are also considering asking for a pay rise.
BBC bosses were also ‘incandescent with anger’ after the demand for a salary increase.
Agreement: But according to The Sun they have accepted an offer of between a 3 and 5 per cent rise
Moneybags: The initially requested rise would have seen head judge Ms Ballas, who currently earns £500,000 for her three month stint, earning a staggering £15,960 per hour on the show
A BBC source told the Daily Mail: ‘While there is always some negotiation that goes on when new contracts are signed each year, this is something else.
‘Their jobs are some of the very best on television and they are already very well remunerated for their work so when these negotiations began this time around, there was shock and anger.
‘It is also not like they spend any other time working behind the scenes like the professional dancers. They turn up, get their make up done and go in front of the camera.
‘The professional dancers work tirelessly for weeks on end and they work themselves to the bone for the smidgen of what the judges already earn, let alone what they want to earn.
‘You would think that they would be aware that they work for the BBC and that they are essentially paid for by the British public through the licence fee.’
MailOnline contacted representatives for Shirley, Craig, Motsi, Anton, and BBC spokespeople for further comment at the time.
This came after Shirley was reportedly given a ‘take it or leave it’ deal by Strictly bosses to stay on the show, after she revealed she may quit over online trolling.
The head judge and Latin expert was subjected to much criticism last year in which trolls slammed her decisions and accused her of ageism and sexism.
But despite previously threatening to quit, Shirley has been in talks with bosses over a potential return to Strictly, previously revealing on the Jonathan Ross show that ‘their people are talking to my people’.
Shirley joined the judging panel as head judge in 2017, following the departure of Len Goodman.
Shirley recently hinted that she may not return to Strictly Come Dancing this year following the torrent of vile online abuse she received during the last series.
Negotiations: This comes after Shirley was reportedly given a ‘take it or leave it’ deal by Strictly bosses to stay on the show, after she revealed she may quit over online trolling
In a candid interview, she indicated the previous series may have been her last as she’d hit an ‘all-time low’ after the abuse ‘snowballed out of control’.
The ballroom dancer told how she was constantly left in tears after every show and struggled in silence, telling how it was ‘the most negativity’ she had ever faced.
She told the Mirror: ‘Last year I was struggling. It wasn’t just a little bit, it was a lot – the majority of it was in silence. I felt the abuse snowballed out of control and impacted me in such a negative way. I’m a pretty stoic person, and I tend to hold everything in.’
She explained that when the abuse began, it seemed ‘larger than anything else’, with the star telling how it left her ‘crying and emotional’, while she was ’embarrassed’ about how she felt and didn’t confide in anyone.