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Judge Judy turned a $113K judge salary into $47M a year
Shaan's headline example of a personal monopoly: Judge Judy was a judge making $113K/year, but by becoming the irreplaceable face of her own show she earned $47M a year (~$900K per filming day), and CBS later bought her back catalog for $100M.
$47M
Annual earnings · USD/year
“She was making $47 million a year for, I don't know, 50, I think, days of filming. So she was making about $900,000 a day filming the show for Judge Judy, which is— she was a judge before that making $113,000 a year.”
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