Each year, they are thousands to apply in the hope of participating in Koh Lanta. The files are scrupulously peeled by the teams by the teams of ALP, the company producing the survival game broadcast on TF1 for more than 20 years now. At the end of the casting phase, there are only twenty of them left to fly off to a heavenly destination where they live in conditions that are closer to hell. This adventure, the Robinson apprentices live it to test their limits, to face themselves, not for the money. But as the rule dictates, the big winner is not the only one to walk away with a cheque!
By participating in Koh Lanta, adventurers sometimes take unpaid leave. Some are bosses and leave their business for a few weeks. In order to make up for their absence from work, they receive a salary. In August 2021, Alexia Laroche-Joubert, boss of ALP, had been questioned on the subject by Estelle Denis on the airwaves of RMC. This is how she revealed that contestants win”minimum wage“. “Basically, it’s a distribution. I think it must be a hundred euros a day“, she indicates before specifying that the amount affected varies according to “if you go out on the first board or go all the way to the final“.
In short, one thing is certain, “the minimum remains the SMIC, then it depends on the number of days of participation“. But what does this correspond to? Today, and since May 1, 2022, the Minimum Growth Wage amounts to 1645.58 euros gross per month on the basis of 35 hours worked per week, or 10.85 euros per hour.In net salary, this is equivalent to 1304.64 euros monthly with an hourly minimum wage of 8.30 euros.
A sum far from the 100,000 euros promised to the big winner of Koh Lanta ! However, as Alexia Laroche-Joubert reminded us, “everyone forgets it“.”Why ? Because the motivation to participate in Koh Lanta it’s never the money“, she assures, rightly!