--- title: Hawaii Five-0: What to Know About the Equal Pay Dispute description: Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park have left the show 'Hawaii Five-0" after reported disputes with CBS over equal pay. canonical: https://time.com/4847554/hawaii-five-0-equal-pay-controversy/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-06T22:03:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:10.937Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: What to Know About the Hawaii Five-0 Equal Pay Controversy og:description: "The path to equality is rarely easy" og:url: https://time.com/4847554/hawaii-five-0-equal-pay-controversy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc4b2a3f3cb05d34/6988d4aa22fb8569e0e21dd5/hawaii-5-0-salary-controversy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hawaii Five-0 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What to Know About the Hawaii Five-0 Equal Pay Controversy twitter:description: "The path to equality is rarely easy" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc4b2a3f3cb05d34/6988d4aa22fb8569e0e21dd5/hawaii-5-0-salary-controversy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Everything to Know About the _Hawaii Five-0_ Equal Pay Controversy > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Mario Perez/CBS via Getty Images) HONOLULU - MARCH 14: "Ho' ohuli Na' au"-- Five-0 (left to right: Grace Park, Daniel Dae Kim, Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan) focuses on several key suspects when world-renowned photographer Renny Sinclair is murdered while on assignment in Hawaii shooting the annual swimsuit edition of a top sports magazine, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Monday, May 2 on the CBS Television Network. (Photo by Mario Perez/CBS via Getty Images)CBS Photo Archive—CBS via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 6, 2017 10:03 PM UTC Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park, two of the stars of the long-running CBS police procedural [_Hawaii Five-0_](http://entertainment.time.com/2010/09/17/hawaii-five-0-a-slick-expensive-vacation-from-tv-ambition/), will not be returning to the television series for season 8 due to failed contract negotiations. Last week, the [_Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hawaii-five-0-star-exits-spark-asian-american-concern-racial-hierarchy-remains-intact-1018936) reported that Kim and Park were leaving the series after having requested and been denied pay parity with their white co-stars and fellow veteran cast members, Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan. In a Facebook post published on Wednesday, Kim wrote, “CBS and I weren’t able to agree to terms on a new contract, so I made the difficult choice not to continue.” While Kim did not explicitly address the discussion about pay equity, many interpreted his remark that “the path to equality is rarely easy” as an allusion to the salary dispute. Following Kim’s post about leaving the show, CBS [released a statement](http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/05/hawaii-five-0-daniel-dae-kim-grace-park/) about both actors’ departure, noting that they were offered “large and significant salary increases.” Series showrunner Peter Lenkov also addressed the matter on his Twitter feed, writing that CBS had offered both actors “unprecedented raises.” > [](https://twitter.com/PLenkov/status/883051023299788800) According to [_Variety_](http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/daniel-dae-kim-grace-park-hawaii-five-0-1202484329/), Kim’s and Park’s final offers were reportedly 10-15% lower than those of O’Loughlin and Caan, who also receive a cut of the series’ back-end deals. Kim and Park have appeared as regular cast members since the show premiered in 2010 and have [the same number of episode credits as O’Loughlin and Caan.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600194/) Their departure raises new questions about diversity on the show, especially since series regular [Masi Oka announced in January that he planned to leave the show](http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/12/hawaii-five-0-masi-oka/). The absence of Kim and Park will result in a complete lack of Asian-American regulars on _Hawaii Five-0_ for season 8 — which may be perceived as problematic for a show set in a state where the majority of the population [claims some Asian heritage](https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2011-02-24-hawaii-census%5FN.htm). The conversation takes place against the backdrop of ongoing discussions about the [representation](http://time.com/4498750/emmys-2016-aziz-ansari-alan-yang/) of Asian-Americans and the [whitewashing](http://time.com/4714367/ghost-in-the-shell-controversy-scarlett-johansson/) of Asian-American roles in Hollywood. It also falls on the heels of [CBS’ admission](http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/cbs-diversity-glenn-geller-tca-1201834652/) that the network needs to do a better job with the diversity of the casts and [showrunners](http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/diversity-television-white-male-showrunners-stats-fox-nbc-abc-cbs-cw-study-1201789639/) of its series. Kim’s and Park’s decision to leave the series was met with support from the industry, with everyone from [Constance Wu](http://time.com/3696111/fresh-off-the-boat-constance-wu/) to Courtney Love weighing in on the issue. > [](https://twitter.com/ConstanceWu/status/882671626940174336) > [](https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/882333954484731904) > [](https://twitter.com/JennaUshkowitz/status/882745239563317248) Others called for O’Laughlin and Caan to stand in solidarity for equal pay in the same manner that the casts of [_The Big Bang Theory_](http://motto.time.com/4688290/big-bang-theory-cast-pay-cut/)and [_Friends_](http://people.com/tv/the-big-bang-theory-pay-cut-friends-salary/)did. > [](https://twitter.com/KANGisMAN/status/882749596459335681) > [](https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/880892740334002177) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4847554/hawaii-five-0-equal-pay-controversy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4847554/hawaii-five-0-equal-pay-controversy/"},"headline":"Everything to Know About the Hawaii Five-0 Equal Pay Controversy","datePublished":"2017-07-06T22:03:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:10.937Z","description":"\"The path to equality is rarely easy\"","url":"https://time.com/4847554/hawaii-five-0-equal-pay-controversy/","keywords":["Television","Newsfeed","viral","entertainment"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc4b2a3f3cb05d34/6988d4aa22fb8569e0e21dd5/hawaii-5-0-salary-controversy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc4b2a3f3cb05d34/6988d4aa22fb8569e0e21dd5/hawaii-5-0-salary-controversy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hawaii Five-0","caption":"Hawaii Five-0","creditText":"CBS Photo Archive—CBS via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4847554/hawaii-five-0-equal-pay-controversy/","name":"Everything to Know About the Hawaii Five-0 Equal Pay Controversy"}}]}] ```