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Monday, September 20 2010
TvGuide editors have answered this question. They made up a top of the highest paid actors in television.
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 (CIS), $ 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
January 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
T. Angus 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
My Dad Says William Shatner ($#*!) $ 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 Sproul (The Suite Life of Zack and Cody) $ 20,000 (each)
Rico Rodriguez (Modern Family) $ 15,000
Late Night / Syndication Talk (per year)
Oprah Winfrey $ 315 million
Judge Judy Sheindlin $ 45 million
David Letterman (The Late Show) $ 28 one million
Jay Leno (Tonight Show) $ 25 million
Conan O'Brien (The Conan O'Brien Show) $ 10 million
Ellen DeGeneres (The Ellen DeGeneres Show) $ 8,000,000
Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live) $ 6,000,000
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 "Snook" 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) $ 8,000,000
Keith Olbermann (MSNBC) $ 7,000,000
Shepard Smith (Fox News) $ 7,000,000
Wolf Blitzer (CNN) $ 3,000,000
Christiane Amanpour (ABC) $ 2 million
Lawrence O'Donnell (MSNBC) $ 2 million
Eliot Spitzer (CNN) $ 500,000by FW Editor |
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