How Much Money Does ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Winner Get? Pay Details Before 2019 Finale

It’s no secret that the winner of “Dancing With the Stars” takes home a Mirrorball trophy after receiving their title as a champion, but what some fans may not know is that they also take home some money as well.

However, the Season 28 winners—either Ally Brooke and Sasha Farber, Lauren Alaina and Gelb Savchenko, Hannah Brown and Alan Bersten or Kel Mitchell and Witney Carson—aren't actually going to be taking home money in the form of a cash prize. In fact, it will actually be the amount of pay they receive for doing the show, and all four celebrity contestants will be receiving an equal payday.

While in the past, the show’s known sliding pay scale for money celebrities earned on the show saw the finalists, usually only three contestants, making as much as $345K each for staying in the competition until the last show. This was after all of the contestants started off the season with a $125K signing bonus, with added amounts of money received for each week they stayed on the show. According to Gawker in 2010, the pay scale saw teams who made it to weeks three and four earned an additional $10,000, $20,000 for weeks five and six, $30,000 for weeks seven and eight and $50,000 for appearing in the final two episodes.

It was reported at the beginning of Season 28 however that the maximum amount celebrities could make for participating on the show was $295,000, which could have been a reduced payday overall due to budget cuts the show made ahead of the new batch of episodes.

Those same budget cuts saw the elimination of the show’s troupe dancers, which included Hayley Erbert, the demotion of Keo Motsepe and the elimination of both Artem Chigvintsev and Sharna Burgess from the newest season’s roster. While costs were not confirmed to be the reason for those cuts, it had been reported that at the time of her ouster, Sharna was the highest-paid female pro.

The “Dancing With the Stars” season 28 finale airs at 8 p.m. EST on ABC.