Obviously her salary was not commensurate to her talent!
  • First contract with Fox, 1945, $75 per week
  • Fox contract renewal, 1947, $150 per week
  • Columbia contract, 1948, $125 per week
  • Tom Kelley / Nude calendar, 1949, $50
  • Promoting "Love Happy," 1949, $100 per week
  • "The Asphalt Jungle, " 1950, $350 per week. $1050 total
  • Second Fox contract, 1951, $500 per week with semiannual increase up to $1500
  • "Clash by Night," 1952, $500 per week
  • "We're Not Married, " 1952, $750 per week
  • "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," 1953, $1250 per week
  • "River of No Return, There's No Business Like Show Business, and The Seven Year Itch," 1954 - 1955, $1500
    per week
  • Nex Fox contract, 1956, $100,000 fee plus $500 per week expenses
  • "Some Like It Hot," 1959, $100,000 fee plus 10% of the profits
  • "The Misfits," 1961, $300,000 fee plus 10% of the profits
  • "Something's Got To Give," 1962, $100,000 fee if she completed the movie

    Fun reading and retail sites:
  • Miss-Vintage Marilyn-Style Page...love this site - 5 Stars*
  • Ask Miss-Vintage... this gal put lots of work into this site.  Lots of wonderful Marilyn "beauty
    tips"  5 Stars*
  • Short MM Bio on AllMovie.com
Year
Film
Role
Salary
Adjusted for
Inflation
1947
Dangerous Years

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

Green Grass of Wyoming

Ladies of the Chorus
Evie

Girl in canoe/Girl exiting
church


Peggy Martin


$150/week


$1400/week
1949
Love Happy
Grunion's client
   
1950
A Ticket to Tomahawk

The Asphalt Jungle

The Fireball

All About Eve

Right Cross
Clara

Angela Phinlay

Polly

Miss Caswell

Dusky Ledoux


$1,050



$500/week, with
one-week guarantee


$9,100



$4,300/week
1951
Home Town Story

As Young as you Feel

Love Nest

Let's Make it Legal
Iris Martin

Harriet

Roberta "Bobby" Stevens

Joyce Mannering
   
1952
Clash By Night

We're Not Married!

Don't Bother to Knock

Monkey Business

O. Henry's Full House
Peggy

Annabel Jones

Nell Forbes

Miss Lois Laurel

Streetwalker


$750/week


$5,00/week
1953
Niagara

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

How to Marry a Millionaire
Rose Loomis

Lorelei Lee

Pola Debevoise


$1,250/week


$9,800/week
1954
River of No Return

There's No Business Like Show
Business
Kay Weston

Vicky Hoffman/Vicky Parker
   
1955
The Seven Year Itch
The Girl
$1,500/week
$12,000/week
1956
Bus Stop
Cherie
   
1957
The Prince and the Showgirl
Elsie Marina
   
1959
Some Like It Hot
Sugar Cane Kowalczyk
$200,000 + 10%
gross over $4 Million

$1,400,000 +
10% gross over
29 Million
1960
Let's Make Love
Amanda Dell
   
1961
The Misfits
Roslyn Taber
$250,000
$1,700,000
1962
Something's Got to Give
Ellen Wagstaff Arden
$100,000
$690,000