Pay Inequality
Pay inequality was a major issue among Charlie’s Angels actresses. When the show first began, two of the Angels, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith, were inexperienced actresses and generally considered relative newcomers to television. They were both paid $5,000 per episode while Kate Jackson, who was better known, was paid $10,000 an episode an episode.
Eventually, Jaclyn Smith received a pay raise to $40,000 per episode. There was reportedly no feuding over this but you know it had to bother the actresses on a personal level to know someone was getting paid more for doing the exact same job as you. This ongoing argument about fairness in pay was unique at the time, as it was women arguing for the same pay as another woman, unlike the heated pay inequality feud that was simultaneously occurring on fellow 1970’s sitcom Three’s Company.
