The winner gets a million and the person who comes in second wins $100,000. Are they the only winners of money? Why is it so important to be in the final three?
If you are in the final three and you win the immunity challenge that means you get to pick which of the other two contestants to go against you in the vote for the winner. Once you get to the final three, it truly is every man (or woman) for himself.
I think also that everyone gets paid something based on how long they are in the game.
Because if you don’t get to the Final Three, you can’t be the Final One. And all alliances are only valid until they get you to where they agreed to get you. Once you get to the Final Three, that doesn’t mean that you have to gracefully step aside because that was as far as the agreement went. You go all out in that last immunity challenge so you can either get the final immunity and choose who goes to the Jury Council with you, or you can impress the one who does get it with your drive and determination so s/he boots the other person instead of you.
One thing I’m not clear about regaring runner up money is whether they adjust the figure based on someone’s popularity. All Mark Burnett will say is the first person off gets $2,500.00 and it goes up from there, but Kimmi from Survivor: The Australian Outback was (I think) the fifth person voted off and she said in a chat that she got $50,000! How could someone who didn’t even make it to the merge get half of what the runner up gets? I think it may have been true because I think it was on Kimmi’s chat at cbs.com after she was booted, plus why else won’t Burnett disclose the complete pay scale?
I’ve heard the third place person gets $85,000.
Wow, sweet, and much more than I expected. The first person voted out of the All Star edition gets $25,000, so I’m really surprised that the top prize wasn’t beefed up to, say, $5 million. Then again, they may increase the prize money and make it a big surprise to pump up the action halfway during the game.
*MINOR SURVIVOR ALL STAR SPOILER BELOW
BTW, Jeff Probst said that the all stars were so afraid of getting stuck with only the clothes on their back like the Pearl Islands castaways that they all wore three layers of clothing on their way to the island!