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It's not as easy as it sounds to break it out by season - since they basically shot two and a half seasons, 36 episodes, in a single year.

By Year - here are the allotments - $10.4 million 2012 -

$11 million in 2013 -

$11.5 million in 2014 -

That's the amount reserved for the show. Payouts come after the season is shot and the state performs an audit to determine "qualified expenditures" during the shoot.

So - the 36 episodes of season 3 and 4 got roughly 21 million dollars.

The only hard numbers on budget available from the state (that I could find quickly) are for what they call "cycle 4" which has "qualified expenditures" of $24 million.

That suggests (with 12 episodes) a per episode budget of more than $2 million because all expenditures are not necessarily qualified expenditures.

Sorry I can't be more precise (or concise) - once I get to a laptop I can research the question more.