The Golden Globes is ending its $75,000 salary for voting members. A spokesperson for the organization sought to reduce perception of bias.

President Helen Hoehne informed an estimated 50 members that they'd receive severance as the awards show brand aims to do away with the practice of paying its voting body.

The Golden Globes will no longer pay a $75,000 salary to its legacy voting members, Deadline confirmed Friday. The decision impacts about 50 members, we hear, and there is a severance payment involved to meet “contractual obligations to the voters,” a Globes spokesperson said.

Just when we thought all eyes were on the Academy! Heading into Oscars weekend, news broke that the Golden Globes will no longer pay its legacy voting members base salaries of $75,000 a year. Per The Hollywood Reporter,

The Golden Globes has terminated its policy of paying $75,000 annual salaries to former members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne has told former Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. members that they will no longer be paid a $75,000 annual salary.

Members of the Golden Globes voting body will no longer be paid, the organization’s president announced during a Friday meeting over Zoom, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The news, from Helen Hoehne,

The move ends a five year deal that began in June 2023 and affects 50 members who vote on the annual film and TV awards.