[letittbe]

Should Charlie Sheen be making 1.25 million an episode? I think not. And fucking Snooki makes 30K and episode to get drunk and get arrested.

Drama, per episode

Hugh Laurie, House $400,000+
Christopher Meloni & Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU $395,000 (each)
David Caruso, CSI: Miami $375,000
Marg Helgenberger, CSI $375,000
Mark Harmon, NCIS $375,000
Laurence Fishburne, CSI $350,000
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer $350,000
Denis Leary, Rescue Me $350,000
Gary Sinise, CSI: NY $275,000
Patrick Dempsey, Grey's Anatomy $250,000
David Boreanaz, Bones $200,000
Jeffrey Donovan, Burn Notice $200,000
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife $175,000
Dana Delany, Body of Proof $150,000
Lauren Graham, Parenthood $150,000
Jada Pinkett Smith, HawthoRNe $150,000
Jimmy Smits, Outlaw $150,000
LL Cool J, NCIS: Los Angeles $125,000
Chris O'Donnell, NCIS: Los Angeles $125,000
Mark Feuerstein Royal Pains $125,000
Jason Lee, Memphis Beat $125,000
Joe Mantegna, Criminal Minds $125,000
Tom Selleck, Blue Bloods $125,000
Michael Weatherly, NCIS $125,000
Matt Bomer, White Collar $100,000
Nathan Fillion, Castle $100,000
Thomas Gibson, Criminal Minds $100,000
Jon Hamm, Mad Men $100,000
Cole Hauser, Chase $100,000
Alex O'Loughlin, Hawaii Five-0 $100,000
Timothy Olyphant, Justified $100,000
Scott Caan, Hawaii Five-0 $80,000
Angie Harmon, Rizzoli & Isles $75,000
Anna Paquin, True Blood $75,000
Blair Underwood, The Event $75,000
Zachary Levi, Chuck $60,000
Ian Somerhalder, The Vampire Diaries $40,000
Shailene Woodley, The Secret Life of the American Teenager $40,000
Ashley Tisdale, Hellcats $30,000

Comedy, per episode

Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men $1.25 million
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men $550,000
Marcia Cross, Desperate Housewives $400,000
Teri Hatcher, Desperate Housewives $400,000
Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives $400,000
Eva Longoria Parker, Desperate Housewives $400,000
Dan Castellaneta, The Simpsons $400,000
Julie Kavner, The Simpsons $400,000
Tina Fey, 30 Rock $350,000
Jeremy Piven, Entourage $350,000
Steve Carell, The Office $297,000
Angus T. Jones, Two and a Half Men $250,000
David Duchovny, Californication $200,000
Kevin Dillon, Entourage $200,000
Adrian Grenier, Entourage $200,000
Miranda Cosgrove, iCarly $180,000
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie $175,000
William Shatner, $#*! My Dad Says $150,000
David Spade, Rules of Engagement $150,000
Ed O'Neill, Modern Family $100,000
Patrick Warburton, Rules of Engagement $85,000
Betty White, Hot in Cleveland $75,000
Kaley Cuoco, The Big Bang Theory $60,000
Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory $60,000
Ty Burrell, Modern Family $50,000
Jane Lynch, Glee $50,000
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory $40,000
Matthew Morrison, Glee $30,000
Selena Gomez, Wizards of Waverly Place $30,000
Dylan and Cole Sprouse, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody $20,000 (each)
Rico Rodriguez, Modern Family $15,000

Late Night/Talk Syndication, per year

Oprah Winfrey $315 million
Judge Judy Sheindlin $45 million
David Letterman, The Late Show $28 million
Jay Leno, The Tonight Show $25 million
Conan O'Brien, The Conan O'Brien Show $10 million
Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen DeGeneres Show $8 million
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel Live $6 million
Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Lately $3.5 million
George Lopez, Lopez Tonight $3.5 million

Reality, per year

Ryan Seacrest, American Idol $15 million
Joel McHale, The Soup $2 million
Piers Morgan, America's Got Talent $2 million
Kate Gosselin, Kate Plus 8 $250,000 per episode
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Jersey Shore $30,000 per episode

News, per year

Matt Lauer, Today $16 million +
Katie Couric, CBS $15 million
Brian Williams, NBC $12.5 million
Diane Sawyer, ABC $12 million
Meredith Vieira, Today $11 million
Bill O'Reilly, Fox News $10 million
George Stephanopoulos, ABC $8 million
Keith Olbermann, MSNBC $7 million
Shepard Smith, Fox News $7 million
Wolf Blitzer, CNN $3 million
Christiane Amanpour, ABC $2 million
Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC $2 million
Eliot Spitzer, CNN $500,000

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[RSAccountssy]

Blererdflgjdlfj! I don't want to see a version of this for sports stars either.

[retrahdggd]

I wasn't expecting to see Judge Judy make that much per year! Wow.

[steevytraunse]

I've watched a couple of episodes of Two and a half man....it's really obscene that Charlie Sheen gets paid that much to be drunk in front of a camera.

[lh88gFzI]

It really blows my mind that Juliana Marguiles makes more per episode than Jon Hamm. The Good Wife is a very good show, but over Mad Men?! And from a financial standpoint, is it really that much more attractive to marketers?

[medprof]

CBS has more money than AMC, I would assume.

[WUlcN1Rz]

Is Sheen's show incredibly popular ratings-wise? That's the only reason I can think of that Mr. NoTalent there could be getting paid so much. He's getting what the cast of Friends used to get at the height of its popularity.

[mtautomoscow]

Two & Half Men, from what I can gather, is the new Friends in terms of ratings.

re: Margulies versus Hamm - significantly higher ratings and bigger network. She also has a bigger career behind her and likely comes with a heftier price tag off the bat.

[WUlcN1Rz]

Anna Paquin, True Blood $75,000 For such a successful show in its third season, that's quite low, isn't it? I wonder how much her co-stars get? Does HBO pay well by industry standards? Anyone?

[boanuatiguali]

^ I thought the same thing. But they also have Conan O'Brien still listed, and his show's been off the air for a while now, right? So maybe it's an older list. Also, with that many lead/recurring characters, I wonder how much HBO can really afford to dish out per episode? Maybe everyone is fairly low.

[haudraufwienix]

David Caruso, CSI: Miami $375,000 lol!

[letittbe]

^ I thought the same thing. But they also have Conan O'Brien still listed, and his show's been off the air for a while now, right? So maybe it's an older list. Also, with that many lead/recurring characters, I wonder how much HBO can really afford to dish out per episode? Maybe everyone is fairly low.

I think it's a current list, that 10 million is for Conan's upcoming show because it's titled, The Conan O'Brien show and not The Tonight Show.

[Ygxejxox]

That's insane for Nathan Fillion, who's in nearly every scene of Castle, and for Zachary Levi of Chuck, whose show is very action-intensive for him, especially compared to Jeffrey Donovan of Burn Notice, which is similar in what it asks from its stars.

While I can understand to a certain degree people finding Two and a Half Men funny, I don't understand how people can call it GOOD or that the acting is anything more than mediocre (other than the mother and the maid, that is.) And Charlie Sheen is too deplorable of a human being for me to be able to watch him and separate the two Charlies.

And how does Sheldon make so much less than Leonard and Penny? I wonder if that discrepancy and some of the weird salary things has to do more with percentages and back end deals.

[boanuatiguali]

Both of my parents love Two and a Half Men. I think that show is heinous. You can't find a more predictable sitcom.

[asypecresty]

I wasn't expecting to see Judge Judy make that much per year! Wow.

That one surprised me the most!

Actually no, Charlie Sheen's salary is just barf inducing. Get outta here!!

[floadaVonfoli]

Obscene. BRB joining Communist Party.

[NewYorkDoctorD]

Dr House: top of the list? Well deserved!

David Caruso makes more than the other csi guys? He's the WORST (actor in the list). All he does is frown and fiddle with his sunglasses and he always does that speak-first-pause-make-eyecontact trick. Bleh.

2.5 men: the kid and the big housekeeper woman (Berta?) make me laugh, I can't help it, but Charlie Sheen is simply the worst aspect of the show. Imo it would be much better without him so it's strange to see he turns out to be the highest paid comedy actor of them all.

Also, no ranking for the Dexter cast?