"Game of Thrones" (open in new tab) will go down in history as a pop culture phenomenon and a huge critical and financial success for HBO. The network poured a dump truckload of money into the series over eight seasons. With a large ensemble cast, part of that figurative dump truck is filled with actors' salaries, but not all of the main cast members are paid the same.

Asked about the pay discrepancy with her on-screen "brother" Kit Harrington (opens in new tab), Sophie Turner told Harper's Bazaar UK (opens in new tab) that the issue is "a little awkward."

"Kit got more money than I did, but he had a bigger story to tell," she explained. 'In the last series, he had 70 nights of filming. I said, 'You know what, ...... You keep that money,' and I was like, 'You keep that money.'"

It is also worth noting that "Game of Thrones" has a fairly well-known tiered pay scale for cast members (open in new tab), and Kit and Sophie are in different tiers on that scale. The highest paid group includes Emilia Clarke (open in new tab), Nicolai Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harrington, and Lena Heady (open in new tab). Like Sophie, Stark's sister Maisie Williams belongs to the so-called "B" tier and earns less than the five in the "A" tier.

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