An MCU writer explains how Marvel Studios has further taken advantage of the writer system.

AnMCUscreenwriter has offered new insight into how Marvel treats its writing teams.

For an upper-level writer, the quote is $25,000 per script.

Jessica Jones Marvel

Say youre doing ten episodes, and youre getting $25,000 per episode: Youre getting $250,000.

[Note: “Staff writer” is the lowest paid writer in a writers' room.

I got to the end of my 20 weeks, I left at the level of staff writer.

Krysten Ritter, Jessica Jones

I was making 4 grand a week."

I made more money as a story editor than they made as EPs in that time."

And since then the studios have just abused the situation even more.

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Its a real f*** you."

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