CATDOLL: How much do popular voice actors earn? Hanazawa Kana earns 20 million per year!

When a new season is about to come, there will always be stories of hardworking voice actors that are worth praising. For example: Hanazawa Kana, Namikawa Daisuke, Amamiya Sora, etc. These voice actors who are often called hardworking usually appear in so many animation works. So what kind of treatment do they have behind the principle of "the more capable, the more work"? Well, to put it bluntly, how much do voice actors earn in a year? The editor with a burning gossip soul decided to dig out how much these voice actors who work hard day and night on the front line earn.

First of all, let me first understand how much the popular voice actor Mamoru Miyano, who is widely loved by the people for his excellent artistic appearance, earns annually. A music supervisor once revealed that Mamoru Miyano's annual income exceeds 100 million yen (hereinafter referred to as yen). Mamoru Miyano listened and smiled bitterly. Is the annual income really more than 100 million? I don't think so. The music supervisor should be joking with half jealousy and half envy. However, based on Mamoru Miyano's popularity and activity in recent years, it can be inferred that he must earn a lot!

In addition, let's take a look at the popular voice actor Hanazawa Kana, who has repeatedly become a model worker in recent years. She has a sweet smile that the people love (I am not blackening her! No) and a highly recognizable voice and cute looks. After maxing out her voice actor skill tree, she continued to expand into other fields. Her hardworking figure can be seen in advertisements and movies. Some netizens broke the news online that Hanazawa Kana earns 20 million a year!

In order to give the audience a better understanding of what it means to earn 20 million per year, the editor found a ranking of the top ten voice actors with the highest annual income about 14 or 15 years ago. The ranking is as follows:

Emi Hayashihara earns 70 million per year, Ryo Horikawa earns 30 million per year, Masako Nozawa earns 40 million per year, and Hiroshi Yamadera earns 20 million per year (foreign movie dubbing)
Yuko Minaguchi earns 14 million per year ((Highly professional and popular voice actor, high dubbing fee)
Nana Mizuki earns 16 million per year (a popular voice actor with high professionalism and high dubbing fee)
Kikuko Inoue earns 12 million per year (popular voice actor, high dubbing fee)
Horie Yui earns 12 million per year (popular voice actor, high dubbing fee, CD printing tax)
Yukari Tamura earns 12 million per year (popular voice actor, high dubbing fee, band income)
Guan Zhi earns 8 million per year (popular voice actor, high dubbing fee)

Hayashibara Megumi

Horikawa Ryo

Yamadera Koichi

The top three voice actors, Nana Mizuki, Yukari Tamura, and Yui Horie, all earned more than 10 million yuan in the past. So it seems that the news that Kana Hanazawa, who is currently at the peak of her career and has a lot of external affairs, earns 20 million yuan a year is quite reliable! So how much does Kana Hanazawa really earn? The editor can only tell you a lot...

After seeing the annual income of these popular voice actors, are you all drooling and full of beautiful yearning for the voice actor industry? If this is really the case, the editor decided to pour some cold water on you.

First of all: In this highly competitive world of voice actors, there are approximately 300,000 people who strive to enter this industry with the dream of becoming a voice actor, but only about 10,000 of them actually become voice actors, and in the end only about 300 people can make a living as voice actors.

Secondly, although they are all voice actors, the income of popular voice actors and unknown voice actors is of course very different. Of course, the income of new voice actors and voice actors who have been in the industry for many years is also very different. Most new voice actors earn less than 1 million yen a year, and only about 10% of voice actors earn more than 5 million yen. Some voice actors are paid on a monthly basis. If there is no voice actor work that month, then the income for that month is 0. It's really a sad story.

It is not difficult to find that at the bottom of the voice actor industry, there are many people like Shizuka Sakaki in the animation "Shirobako". They have no voice actor job and no income. They rely on part-time jobs to make a living. They participate in selections again and again, but fail continuously. Voice actor may be such a profession that cannot be chosen and persisted by the amount of annual income. It can only be supported by the determination to do this job sincerely. So, Minna-san, if you have a voice actor you like, love and cherish him! Voice actors have a hard time.