Golden Globes Will No Longer Pay Voting Members a $75,000 Wage

• The Golden Globes will now not pay a $75,000 wage to its voting members.
• A Golden Globes spokesperson mentioned it made the change to stop the notion of bias.
• Different main awards just like the Oscars and Emmys don’t pay voters a wage.

The voters who determined which movies and tv reveals would obtain a Golden Globe have been for years paid for his or her service.

Not anymore.

Golden Globes President Helen Hoehne instructed the 50 members affected by the choice in a Zoom name on Friday that they’d now not obtain their $75,000 annual wage, The Los Angeles Instances reported.

A Golden Globes spokesperson confirmed the choice to Enterprise Insider. “The Golden Globes describes the change in coverage as an acknowledgment that persevering with to pay members may add to a notion of bias in voting,” the spokesperson mentioned.

The 50 voting members who have been receiving wage funds have been former members of the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation, the nonprofit group of leisure journalists that constructed the Golden Globes into a serious awards powerhouse, rivaling even the Oscars.

Nonetheless, after a sequence of scandals in 2021 rocked the HFPA, inflicting NBC to tug the Golden Globes from the air, Hollywood media agency Penske Media Eldridge acquired the group and turned the Golden Globes right into a for-profit entity. This system returned to tv in 2023.

The spokesperson mentioned that the voting physique for the Golden Globes now numbers 300 and is made up of leisure journalists from 85 international locations.

Different widespread Hollywood awards reveals, just like the Academy Awards, the Emmys, and the Grammy, don’t pay their voting members a wage.