How Much Does the 'Full House' Cast Make in Residuals? Jodie Sweetin's Answer Will Shock You

After learning how much the Friends cast earns each year in residuals, it may alarm you to hear what the Full House stars aren't getting. Especially since the nostalgia factor for the '90s TGIF staple is just as high.

With interest around residual checks taking off thanks to Lisa Kudrow's recent admission, Jodie Sweetin weighed in, and it turns out that she and her Full House castmates can't just sit back and let their hit show pay the bills.

While speaking with Josh McBride on The McBride Rewind podcast, Sweetin left many stunned when she shared how much (or how little) she receives from her time on Full House. She played Stephanie Tanner on the ABC hit beginning when she was just five years old, and it ran for eight seasons before getting canceled in May 1995.

Despite all that time on the air, and the continuing popularity of the show, plus a Netflix spinoff, residual checks are not what they once were for the Full House cast.

"I got a one-cent check the other day," Sweetin revealed. "No, there's no syndication anymore because it's all in streaming. Who gets paid for that? Nobody gets paid for that."

While Full House has historically aired reruns on TBS, WGN America, Nick at Nite, Freeform, TV Land, CMT, Hallmark Channel, and MeTV, Sweetin is correct that the series is now available to stream rather than airing as reruns on network television.

Warner Bros. owns Full House and has licensed the show to Hulu exclusively since 2017, where all eight seasons are available to stream.

That is due to the way contracts were written when these shows were filmed back in the '80s and '90s, before streaming existed. Payments for shows in syndication could be lucrative for the main stars of certain shows and even brought in smaller payments for lesser stars.

But over the years, as streaming services took over, residual checks have dwindled for all but the major shows like Friends and Seinfeld, leaving stars of shows like Full House with nearly nothing.

It's worth noting that in 2019, SAG-AFTRA struck a deal with Netflix that pays a residual scale to those starring in their original series for streaming after initial release, so the contracts are slowly changing with the times.

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This story was originally published May 1, 2026 at 10:57 AM.