Twenty years ago an actor received his first job on television. His “one line” wasn’t even a complete sentence; it was a hyphenate, just “Seventy-twenty-one.”
The casting director asked him if he would accept what was pretty much the minimum for the show, $600 for the day. Although 20 years ago SAG minimum was just around $350 at the time, it was fairly standard to pay far above that, even to an inexperienced day player at the time.