How Much Does Tony Beets Pay His Workers on Gold Rush?
Tony Beets makes $25,000 per episode on Gold Rush. He is the highest-paid star on Discovery Channel’s reality television show.
The successful gold miner not only acquires the sum for his appearance on the show but gets to keep the gold he mined on the show.
Even the Discovery Channel has no rights over those finds.
However, it was not the same case in 2011 when Tony Beets first appeared on the show he worked for much less.
Similarly, Beets appeared as Todd’s consultant in the second season of Gold Rush. Later, he joined again as the Parker mentor and rented the Scribner Creel claim in season 4 to him.
With the growing popularity, his income has also increased in these years.
The cast like Jimmy Doresy make $100 per epsiode. Jim Thurber makes a monthly earning of $10,000, while Sterling Anderson makes $16,000 from Discovery Channel.
Meanwhile, some cast like Mitch Blaschke makes earning $100,000 annually from the show.
Beets also appeared in various TV series like Celebrity Page and Kennedy Live. The Canadian Dutchman joined the sequel Gold Rush: South America in 2013, where he only appeared in one episode, The Frozen North.
He also emerged in Gold Fever, Follow the Gold VR, Pay Dirt, White Water, Winter’s Fortune, and The Dirt.
He occurred in the 45 sequences of Gold Rush: The Dirt from 2013 to 2022.
