You Won’t Believe How Much the Love Is Blind Cast Gets Paid Per Season

How much do Love Is Blind contestants get paid?

According to a lawsuit filed by season 2 contestant Jeremy Hatwell via Variety, Love Is Blind reportedly paid contestants a flat rate of $1,000 per week — despite forcing them to work up to 20 hours per day, seven days per week. That would be as little as $7.14 per hour, well under the minimum wage in Los Angeles County of at least $15 per hour, according to the complaint.

The producers “intentionally underpaid the cast members, deprived them of food, water and sleep, plied them with booze and cut off their access to personal contacts and most of the outside world. This made cast members hungry for social connections and altered their emotions and decision-making,” said attorney Chantal Payton of Payton Employment Law, the L.A.-based firm that is representing Hartwell.

However, new reports have revealed how much they get paid if they make it far in the show.

The Pods

Salary: $5,000

According to a newly revealed tell-all by former contestant Matthew Duliba, Love Is Blind contestants are paid $5,000 at the first stages of the show which last 10 days.

Getaways

Salary: $2,500

The cast is only paid $2,500 for their vacations in paradise after they leave The Pods.

Real-life

Salary: $3,000

When the couples go out in the real world to meet each other’s families and see their day-to-day life, they’re only paid $3,000.

Reunion

Salary: $1,500

When the couples return to the show to reveal if they are still together or not, they receive a stipend of about $1,500.

Weddings

Salary: $1,000

Love Is Blind couples who get lucky and love all the way to their wedding receive a $1,000 stipend.

Do Love Is Blind contestants pay for their own stuff?

Technically, Love Is Blind contestants have to pay for their own glam, but they don’t have to pay for their own weddings or engagement rings. The show’s creator Chris Coelen has said if the couples want to personally add stuff to their wedding beyond the budget, the show won’t stop them. “If they wanted to spend their own money, or try to enhance it within reason, we would certainly allow that,” he said. “We would never put any constraints on them unless it was something we couldn’t accommodate within the show. That was really up to them.”

Love Is Blind‘s wedding planner Slomique Hawrylo revealed to Netflix’s Tudum that just flowers for a wedding ran around $50,000 to $60,000, while securing a tent for the ceremonies ate up almost $120,000 of the overall budget.