Summary

• Daisy Ridley's salary for Star Wars: New Jedi Order is reported to be $12.5 million, a significant increase from her first movie in the franchise.
• Comparing to other Star Wars legacy characters, Ridley's salary is comparable to those in leading roles and higher than many top-paid female actors of 2022.
• This suggests that producers have confidence in Ridley's return as Rey despite the divisive ending of The Rise of Skywalker, although the reported salary does not mention profit sharing.

Daisy Ridley's salary for the movie unofficially titled Star Wars: New Jedi Order has reportedly been revealed. Ridley originated the role of the Jedi trainee and Resistance fighter Rey Skywalker in 2015's Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, going on to reprise the role in the following episodes The Last Jedi in 2017 and The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. She is set to return in New Jedi Order, which is said to take place 15 years after the events of Episode IX.

On the new episode of Star Wars: New Jedi Order movie. It was reported that Daisy Ridley's salary for the movie was $12.5 million. This total would be a massive improvement on Ridley's original Star Wars: The Force Awakens salary, which was reportedly between $200,000 and $300,000. Check out the full video report below:

How Does Daisy Ridley's Salary Compare?

Ridley's salary can be somewhat difficult to compare because not every actor's pay rate is reported for every project, even for the other Star Wars movies. However, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher reportedly made salaries in the low seven figures for their legacy character returns in The Force Awakens, with Harrison Ford's salary for his more centralized return as Han Solo ending up somewhere north of $10 million. This means that Rey's salary is comparable to any Star Wars legacy character who is taking on a lead role.

This salary is also somewhat higher than many of the reported salaries of the highest-paid female actors of 2022, which are not adjusted for inflation. The only salary from that year that matches Ridley's is the $12.5 million reportedly earned by Margot Robbie for her starring role in Barbie, on which she was also an executive producer. Check out Ridley's reported salary compared to the reported salaries of the highest-paid female actors of 2022 below:

Several of the actors on that list were already Oscar winners before 2022, which likely pushed their salaries even higher than they would have been otherwise. If Ridley's reported salary is true, this means that producers think the legacy character's return in Star Wars: New Jedi Order will make the movie a hot commodity despite the divisive Rise of Skywalker ending. However, this reported salary does not mention if Ridley will earn a percentage of the movie's profits, so it's possible she is exchanging more money up front for fewer points on the back end.

Source: The Hot Mic