{"id":399,"date":"2018-01-11T20:13:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T20:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2018-01-11T20:13:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T20:13:47","slug":"salary-gap-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Salary Gap Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The big story hitting the main street and social media this week is the huge pay gap between the stars of the movie \u2018All the Money in the World.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">People were quick to become outraged when it was reported that Mark Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million for required reshoots while his female co-star Michelle Williams got less than $1,000 for hers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Like most anything in the news these days those getting their panties in a wad aren\u2019t getting the whole story\u2026 It turns out that Williams original contract included any required reshoots so the production company didn\u2019t have to pay her anything. In contrast Wahlberg\u2019s contract didn\u2019t include such a clause so when they wanted him to do the required reshoots with a replacement for the disgraced Kevin Spacy it was open for negotiations as to how much he\u2019d get paid for his work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">With all the press this one issue has been getting I\u2019m surprised that no one has ever reported on what the two stars got paid to do the movie in the first place. More than likely if we knew that information this whole issue of such a huge pay gap wouldn\u2019t look like such a big story or garnish the same publicity that a story that only tells you a small portion of the story has gotten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big story hitting the main street and social media this week is the huge pay gap between the stars of the movie \u2018All the Money in the World.\u2019 People were quick to become outraged when it was reported that Mark Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million for required reshoots while his female co-star Michelle Williams got less than $1,000 for hers. Like most anything in the news these days those getting their panties in a wad aren\u2019t getting the whole story\u2026 It turns out that Williams original contract included any required reshoots so the production company didn\u2019t have to pay her anything. In contrast Wahlberg\u2019s contract didn\u2019t include such a clause so when they wanted him to do the required&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-stupid-is","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}