How Much Do “Bachelor in Paradise” Contestants Make?

 

By ZN

It’s that time of year again when the men and women who did not find love on national television get to head to the islands to find love with the rest of the Bachelor/ette rejects, and nothing is more exciting. It might be the best part of the show, if we are being honest. No one is looking to be their best self, and everyone is looking to have a good time, maybe hook up, and maybe find love. It all depends, but at the end of the day, there will always be good-old-fashioned drama between the drunken people in Mexico as they get to know one another, bond, and then collectively decide to hate any late entries. Bachelor In Paradise is everything, and fans are dying to know if the people who appear on the show get a paycheck for spending their time in paradise.

The entire premise is interesting. The people who did not find love when they originally appeared on the show get a second chance to look for someone to love them. This time, however, they are not just a group of women looking to fall for one man. They are also not a group of men looking to find love with one woman. This time, the numbers are pretty evenly stacked, and everyone’s chance of finding love goes up significantly. These people don’t always want to find love, some of them do find love. Some of them get married, some have babies, some get engaged only to call it off later, and some get married, have a couple of kids, and then end their marriage (we are looking at a long-ago favorite with Carly and Evan). The point is that everyone has a chance to find someone.

There are new people brought in all the time just in case someone isn’t connecting, or someone is getting a little too happy with someone else. Not everyone is friendly, most people are entirely too inebriated to function as a normal adult, and we can tell it’s hot, hot, hot while they’re on the island that does not appear to have any air conditioning in a relatively open-air building. Either way, though, these people get to do what they want for a few beach-front weeks during summer, and maybe they get to make some new friends or find love while they’re there. The point is that we all love it, so what else matters?

 

Do Bachelor in Paradise Contestants Get Paid?

Yes, they do. Everyone who appears on BIP gets a paycheck, so they aren’t just giving up their jobs and their lives for nothing. They get to have fun, they get a free vacation, and they get to find love, and they each get to bring home a decent paycheck when you take into consideration that they step outside their lives for a few weeks. The income they bring home is anywhere between $7,000 and $15,000 per person. How much each one gets is based on several factors. For instance, we’d imagine that those who get to stay longer on the show and aren’t eliminated in rose ceremonies are probably going to get the bigger checks. Those who are ousted quickly get the smaller paychecks.

Of course, this is not without a few caveats. The first is that these people want to look good on television, so they do tend to spend a pretty penny getting ready. They need new makeup, they need swimsuits and coverups and clothes to wear to rose ceremonies and around the island that look good on television and translate well for cameras. They leave their jobs, their families, and their homes, but they are also getting paid to go on vacation and to potentially come home with a fiancé or a new boyfriend or girlfriend, or whatever. So, it’s not a bad gig for anyone who can get it.

In fact, many of the contestants on the island believe that it’s far better to be on this show than to be on others. When these contestants are on the Bachelor, they’re just looking for love. They are looking for love that they may not find because there are so many of the same sex looking to find the same love with the same one person, and there’s nothing making it worthwhile for many. At the moment, though, there are numerous people that they can find love with on the island, and they are getting paid to look for it. Essentially, they get to go home with a paycheck even if they don’t go home with love.