'The Bachelorette' Will Pay Emily Maynard HOW Much?

Insert the jokes about love's pricetag here, but the fact is, it's going to cost ABC a lot more than it will new "Bachelorette" Emily Maynard.

The one-time winner of Brad Womack's hand and other parts on "The Bachelor" returns later in 2012 for the love-in-prime-time ABC hit's eighth season. Getting back the Southern beauty who in July 2011 tweeted "I don't want to be The Bachelorette" will apparently cost ABC a pretty penny, reports Wetpaint's newly minted "Bachelorette"-devoted website.

As a matter of fact, nine months after that remark, she's reportedly pocketing a cool $250,000 base salary while shooting the upcoming season in Charlotte, NC. To put it into perspective, the site reports that Season Seven Bachelorette Ashley Hebert received a mere $100,000 to pit unsuspecting men against each other in a kickboxing tournament and jerk the unsuspecting suitors around while she pined for someone who left the competition voluntarily.

To be fair, though, Hebert has done just fine despite being just a tad "underpaid": she and selected suitor J.P. Rosenbaum are reportedly still happily engaged.

Additionally, ABC has apparently been quite accommodating toward Maynard. She expressed some regrets during a July 2011 prime-time interview on "The Bachelorette" that she regretted how the perpetual media scrutiny after winning Womack's hand affected her young daughter Ricki. To avoid uprooting Maynard and separating her from her daughter, ABC moved shooting from the typical Los Angeles mansion where it's traditionally filmed to Maynard's North Carolina hometown.