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

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.

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.

There are currently 300 members in the Globes voting body. The $75,000 salaries were laid out in a five-year deal specific to ex-HFPA members who were carried over when a 2023 corporate purchase turned the Golden Globes into a for-profit venture owned by Todd Boehly and Jay Penske’s Penske Media Eldridge,

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.

The Golden Globes organization has decided to end its policy of paying a $75,000 annual salary to former Hollywood Foreign Press Association members who vote on the organization’s annual film and TV honors.

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,