'Real Housewives' Salaries Revealed, Highest Paid 'Housewife' Makes Over $2 Million Per Season!

RHONY’s Carole Radziwill

First season: $100,000
Second season: $150,000

Carole Radziwill made an appearance on the podcast “Behind the Velvet Rope With David Yontef” and admitted that the “first year” of RHONY, “everyone gets paid $60,000.”

“I was like, ‘I’m not doing it for [$60,000]. I’ll do it for a hundred.’ They had blown up the show at that point and right. They’d fired like four people … I guess they were desperate. I only found out … that Heather Thomson and Aviva Drescher didn’t get $100,000 because then the second season we were negotiating and they gave us $150,000. Heather thought it was great. I’m like, ‘It’s not that great.’ And then I realized they had just paid her the $60,000. Of course, I immediately told her because I wasn’t gonna like pretend or lie to her.”