I read a while back that old tightwad only paid those full time musicians $110 a week. Guess they sucked it up for the exposure, for whatever that was worth on that gay ass show.
I don't know what they were paid per show - but they were getting union scale or better and it was 1971 - so how many hours did they work for that $110 ?
That was the scale I referenced.
“Still others left the show over money disputes with Welk, who paid the minimum union scale to his cast. “We worked at group scale, which was $110 a week, for 10 years,” Kathy Lennon recalled. “After that he agreed to pay us solo scale, $210 a week. That’s what we finished out at. When we told him we’d stay if he’d pay us double scale, he told us, ‘No act is worth a penny over scale to me.”
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-lawrence-welk-19920519-20160516-snap-story.html
