57 years ago today, April 4, 1967, Johnny Carson quit "The Tonight Show." He returned three weeks later after getting a raise of $30,000 a week. He declined to answer to rumors about the amount of his increased salary. But noted reports guessed the iconic host would earn more than $4 million over a three-year period following his own strike. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ CPI inflation calculator, that’s about $33 million today.
In the end, Carson concluded that he and the network came to terms that “satisfied” him. And as a result, he remained in the hosting chair until 1992
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