The actress said she was hesitant to quit too soon, unsure whether the quirky workplace comedy would last. Instead, she always planned for the well drying up sooner rather than later.
“Don’t take anything for granted and save.”
Fortune reached out to Kinsey for comment.
“I tried to keep a level head now that I had consistent income, knowing that everything has a finite end date and that consistent income would eventually go away, and I didn’t want to be stuck with a lot of big purchases,” the 54-year-old said.
In the early days of the show, popular stars like Krasinski and Fischer reportedly earned $20,000 per episode, with their pay rising to $100,000 an episode by the time season four aired, according to Entertainment Weekly. While it’s unclear how much Kinsey was paid per episode, she told CNBC that it was “enough for her to start building her savings.”
“It’s really tough, say anyone going into the business or acting or any of that stuff, the entertainment stuff, you’re going to get beat up,” Fallon advised. “It’s going to be to the point where you’re like, ‘I’m so depressed I can’t do it.’ But just know that if you can just get through it and keep working, eventually, whatever is going to happen in life will work out.”
And with the democratization of technology and social media making side gigs easier than ever to pursue, the practice is likely to only expand.
