Actors on RTE's long-running drama Fair City earn nearly €460 a day, it has emerged.
However the broadcaster refused to say how much the top 10 highest-paid actors such as Clelia Murphy (Niamh) and Tony Tormey (Paul) are paid.
Meanwhile the taxi bill for all staff working on the soap who are needed early in the morning or late in the evening was nearly €30,000 last year, up from €25,376 in 2014.
It was further revealed that most of the 26 scriptwriters working on the show received €3,495 each per episode.
RTE added that information regarding allowances such as meals for the performers was 'commercially sensitive'.
The broadcaster said 198 episodes of Fair City were filmed last year at a cost per episode of €54,883 totalling €10.86m.
Fair City faces growing competition from TV3's drama series Red Rock.
Up to 220 people work on Fair City in a production week, and the average audience for the programme on RTE One was 448,200 last year, with thousands of additional viewers watching repeat and online transmissions.
The drama was first broadcast in September 1989.
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