Erin Murphy played Tabitha Stephens on seasons 3 to 8 of Bewitched from 1966 to 1972. It’s been more than 50 years since the show went off the air, but Erin kept quite a bit of memorabilia from her TV days. She shared a newspaper clip on Facebook on June 11, 2026, that showed just how much money she made. Back then, minimum wage was very low, so for a child, Erin was really raking in the big bucks.
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“Did you ever wonder how much I made per episode on Bewitched? Now you know. $400. That was a lot of money back then, when minimum wage was $1.25. For comparison, Burt Ward from Batman made $250 per episode. Approximately $4300 per week today,” she wrote.
Fans Loved that Erin Murphy Made More Money Than Batman
Seeing that the child star brought in more per episode than Batman made plenty of fans chuckle.
“Tabitha Stephens is absolutely worth more than Batman and Robin! They had to pretend to be someone else, see the light in the sky, put on a cape and a mask, and little Tabitha just had to twitch her nose like her mama. I love it! Thank you for sharing!” One person wrote.
Another actor shared their salary story from back in the day, and it was pretty similar.
“I was in about a dozen episodes of the reboot of Hawaii Five 0 as an extra and made about $140 per day just basically standing around and told where to go. Of course, the best part was the meals. The food was so good and I got to meet some great people. I was non union and I wanted to join SAGS but the initiation fee was something like $4,000,” they wrote.
This person also recalled the good old days when life was much simpler. “My first full time job in 1976 was $100 a week. Not enough to live on but you could get by in a cheap apartment with a roommate,” they wrote.
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