TV stars..who gets the biggest paycheck?

Richard Dower

If you wanna know who gets paid what, have a look

http://tonightontv.blogspot.com/2010/08/whos-being-paid-big-2010-edition.html


DRAMA (Upcoming Series)
Dana Delany (Body of Proof) - $150,000 an episode
Jimmy Smits (Outlaw) - $150,000 an episode
Tom Selleck (Blue Bloods) - $125,000 an episode
Cole Hauser (Chase) - $100,000 an episode
Alex O'Loughlin (Hawaii Five-0) - $100,000 an epside
Scott Caan (Hawaii Five-0) - $80,000 an episode
Blair Underwood (The Event) - $75,000 an episode
Ashley Tisdale (Hellcats) - $30,000 an episode

DRAMA (Returning Series)
Hugh Laurie (House) - $400,000 an episode
Mariska Hargitay (Law and Order: SVU) - $395,000 an episode
Christopher Meloni (Law and Order: SVU) - $395,000 an episode
Mark Harmon (NCIS) - $375,000 an episode
David Caruso (CSI: Miami) - $375,000 an episode
Marg Helgenberger (CSI) - $375,000 an episode
Laurence Fishburne (CSI) - $350,000 an episode
Kyra Sedwick (The Closer) - $350,000 an episode
Denis Leary (Rescue Me) - $350,000 an episode
Gary Sinise (CSI: NY) - $275,000 an episode
Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy) - $250,000 an episode
David Boreanaz (Bones) - $200,000 an episode
Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) - $200,000 an episode
Julianna Marguiles (The Good Wife) - $175,000 an episode
Lauren Graham (Parenthood) - $150,000 an episode
Jada Pinkett Smith (HawthoRNe) - $150,000 an episode
LL Cool J (NCIS: Los Angeles) - $125,000 an episode
Chris O'Donnell (NCIS: Los Angeles) - $125,000 an episode
Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains) - $125,000 an episode
Jason Lee (Memphis Beat) - $125,000 an episode
Joe Mantegna (Criminal Minds) - $125,000 an episode
Michael Weatherly (NCIS) - $125,000 an episode
Matt Bomer (White Collar) - $100,000 an episode
Nathan Fillion (Castle) - $100,000 an episode
Thomas Gibson (Criminal Minds) - $100,000 an episode
Jon Hamm (Mad Men) - $100,000 an epsiode
Timothy Olyphant (Justified) - $100,000 an episode
Angie Harmon (Rizzoli and Isles) - $75,000 an episode
Anna Paquin (True Blood ) $75,000 an episode
Zachary Levi (Chuck) - $60,000 an epsiode
Ian Somerhalder (The Vampire Diaries) - $40,000 an episode
Shaiene Woodley (Secret Life) - $40,000 an epsiode


COMEDY (Upcoming Series)
William Shatner ($#*! My Dad Says) - $150,000 an episode

COMEDY (Returning Series)
Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men) - $1.25 million an episode
Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) - $550,000 an episode
The Ladies of Desperate Housewives - $400,000 an episode each
Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons) - $400,000 an episode
Julie Kavner (The Simpsons) - $400,000 an episode
Jeremy Piven (Entourage) - $350,000 an epsiode
Tina Fey (30 Rock) - $350,000 an episode
Stevel Carell (The Office) - $297,000 an episode
Angus T. Jones (Two and a Half Men) - $250,000 an episode <--- This is one rich kid!
David Duchovny (Californication) - $200,000 an episode
Kevin Dillon (Entourage) - $200,000 an episode
Adrian Grenier (Entourage) - $200,000 an episode
Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly) - $180,000 an episoe <--- Another rich kid!
Edie Flaco (Nurse Jackie) - $175,000 an episode
David Spade (Rules of Engagement) - $150,000 an episode
Ed O'Neill (Modern Family) - $100,000 an episode
Patrick Warburton (Rules of Engagement) - $85,000 an episode
Betty White (Hot in Cleveland) - $75,000 an episode
Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) - $60,000 an episode
Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory) - $60,000 an episode
Ty Burrell (Modern Family) - $60,000 an episode
Jane Lynch (Glee) - $50,000 an episode
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) - $40,000 an episode <--- WAYYY underpaid
Matthew Morrison (Glee) - $30,000 an episode
Selena Gomez (Wizards of Waverly Place) - $30,000 an episode
Dylan and Cole Sprouse (Suite Life on Deck) - $20,000 an episode each
Rico Rodriguez (Modern Family) - $15,000 an episode


LATE NIGHT/TALK SYNDICATION
Oprah - $315 million a year
David Letterman (The Late Show) - $28 million a year
Jay Leno (The Tonight Show) - $25 million a year
Conan O'Brien (The Conan O'Brien Show) - $10 million a year
Ellen DeGeneres (The Ellen DeGeneres Show) - $8 million a year
Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) - $6 million a year
Chelsea Handler (Chelsea Lately) - $3.5 million a year
George Lopez (Lopez Tonight) - $3.5 million a year


REALITY
Ryan Seacrest (American Idol) - $15 million a year
Joel McHale (The Soup) - $2 million a year
Piers Morgan (America's Got Talent) - $2 million a year
Kate Gosselin (Kate Plus 8) - $250,000 an episode
Nicole "Snookie" Polizzi (Jersey Shore) - $30,000 an episode


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

Richard Dower

Shailene Woodley (Secret Life) - $40,000 an epsiode

^ WTF??????????....how the hell is she getting that much?, she's dreadful.....coudln't act her way out of a paper bag, seriously....how???????

Kate Gosselin (Kate Plus 8) - $250,000 an episode --> :eek:

Dman001

Hugh Laurie deserves the $400,000 a episode. He always gives a great performance. $1.25 Million for Sheen and $500,000 for Cryer? Ridiculous amount for a ridiculous show.

iCarley girl getting $180,000 while the starts of Glee not event getting half that per show. I know they are on different networks but surely Glee gets the same, if not more, ratings than iCarley?

RolandIRL

Anna Paquin (True Blood ) $75,000 an episode

she deserves so much more than this yet charlie sheen gets $1.25m for his shíte show :mad:

Richard Dower

Dman001 wrote: »

Hugh Laurie deserves the $400,000 a episode. He always gives a great performance. $1.25 Million for Sheen and $500,000 for Cryer? Ridiculous amount for a ridiculous show.

iCarley girl getting $180,000 while the starts of Glee not event getting half that per show. I know they are on different networks but surely Glee gets the same, if not more, ratings than iCarley?

iCarly gets huge ratings for Nick, probably it's most successful show, the key demos are massive, so i see why she gets that cash. I bet Glee stars will get more when the contacts get renewed.

amacachi

Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men) - $1.25 million an episode

Ugh.

Cookie33

whiteman19 wrote: »

charlie sheen gets $1.25m for his shíte show :mad:

can't believe that one either! - he got paid $875,000 last year
thought cast of glee might have got more but i suppose its only the first season

also jim parsons should be getting more than kaley and johnny in the big bang theory. he's the star imo

compare the figures for last year to the same people some got a very high pay rise like charlie sheen

Hank_Jones

It's basically a who's who of people that were kinda big in the 80's and 90's.

Richard Dower

Jake gets 250,000 grand....for doing shag all, fair play to him...it's not like that kid is gonna get work after 2.5 Men ends, he'll blow it all on escorts and trips to Vegas :-)

Dman001

Richard Dower wrote: »

Jake gets 250,000 grand....for doing shag all, fair play to him...it's not like that kid is gonna get work after 2.5 Men ends, he'll blow it all on escorts and trips to Vegas :-)

Ha fair play to him indeed, in fairness though his character is funnier than Sheen's in the show. It must get brilliant ratings, but I really don't see how.

ixoy

How can "Two and a Half Men" deserve such high salaries? 3 times what Hugh Laurie gets? What the hell? "House" is a longer, more involved and demanding show and also is a Top 10 show in the US. Why such a massive gap?!

Other ones make no sense either (and I'm surprised to see how much O'Leary gets for the cable show "Rescue Me").

But seriously, I don't get "Two and a Half Men". Just why American, why.

phasers

Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) - $40,000 an episode

Wow, no wonder he's still in negotiations. That's a really big show, he should be earning twice that at least.

The amount Charlie Sheen gets is sickening, and those two twats from Law and Order are seriously overpaid too.

JP Liz V1

Nathan Fillion (Castle) - $100,000 an episode
Thomas Gibson (Criminal Minds) - $100,000 an episode
Jon Hamm (Mad Men) - $100,000 an epsiode
Timothy Olyphant (Justified) - $100,000 an episode

They deserve more and I expected Hamm to be on the same as Laurie tbh

Richard Dower

Awww...poor Oprah, only getting 315 million a year!

robby^5

The amount NBC pay a painfully unfunny man like Jay Leno is ridiculous. Then we have Conan, who is by far the best talent among all the American late night hosts, relegated to the networks. But I guess 10mil a year is not to be scoffed at

JP Liz V1

I think the Glee cast will be asking for more money soon

ejmaztec

There must be an Irish list somewhere, although it's probably buried deep inside a booby-trapped vault.

KeithM89_old

Kiefer Sutherland made $550,000 per episode of '24'
Lucky Bastard

JP Liz V1

Keithm89 wrote: »

Kiefer Sutherland made $550,000 per episode of '24'
Lucky Bastard

He was also a producer of the show

godtabh

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

He was also a producer of the show

Probably got more money for doing that

r3nu4l

Given the amount of money that Glee makes as a show the cast deserve a lot more than they are getting imo.

Charlie Sheen! :eek: What the hell? Ridiculous.

Hugh Lauire, yup, that's cool with me, same for Mark Harmon in NCIS.

I'm surprised that the guys from Modern Family aren't getting more but then again the next series will really tell how long the show can continue for.

phasers

I'm surprised there's no mention of Alec Baldwin? I'd have thought he'd earn a fair bit for 30 Rock.

Also

Nicole "Snookie" Polizzi (Jersey Shore) - $30,000 an episode

:rolleyes:

pickarooney

whiteman19 wrote: »

Anna Paquin (True Blood ) $75,000 an episode

she deserves so much more than this yet charlie sheen gets $1.25m for his shíte show :mad:

She doesn't. She's an awful actress on a PPV channel.

Richard Dower

^ yeah but she has nice boobs, apparently.

Venom

phasers wrote: »

Wow, no wonder he's still in negotiations. That's a really big show, he should be earning twice that at least.

The amount Charlie Sheen gets is sickening, and those two twats from Law and Order are seriously overpaid too.

Was shocked he got less than the other two :eek:

He walks and the show is done where the rest of the case could be replaced imho.

sky88

charlie sheen gets 1.25 million for playing himself bascally might as well take it if you can

paddyismaddy

ryan seacrest is an overpaid twat

Richard Dower

paddyismaddy wrote: »

ryan seacrest is an overpaid twat

And clearly gay...come ot Ryan, come out!!

cleremy jarkson

5 of those really stick out for me:

Ryan Seacrest (American Idol) - $15 million a year (because he just seems like somebody I couldn't like. In fact, I'm certain he's a prick)

Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly) - $180,000 an episode (because she's only a young girl and will likely turn out to be a self-important wee fucker)

Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men) - $1.25 million an episode (because, like somebody said, he's basically getting paid to act as himself! Even if it is a very popular sitcom and the market somehow dictates that he's entitled to earnings of that level, it still seems like too much! Maybe half a million would be enough)

Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) - $550,000 an episode (I'd say he should be entitled to about half of that)

Angus T. Jones (Two and a Half Men) - $250,000 an episode (It just seems like an enormous amount of money for a kid his age)

And obviously Oprah, who gets a simply ridiculous sum of money.

filthymcnasty

fecking hell oprah nearly makes more than the rest of them combined!!

Looking at the list and the gap between some of the pay scales is huge, it's disgraceful that Charlie Sheen will get nearly 30 million dollars for the next season of 2 and a Half Men yet many veteran actors work for next to nothing.

There are a few names on the list who are more than deserving their pay cheque, nice to see veteran actors such as Smits and Selleck getting well rewarded for their work. It's also nice to see people like Cole Hauser and Timothy Olyphant being well paid though tbh I would much prefer to see the names below getting a pay rise.

Jimmy Smits (Outlaw) - $150,000 an episode
Tom Selleck (Blue Bloods) - $125,000 an episode
Cole Hauser (Chase) - $100,000 an episode
Mark Harmon (NCIS) - $375,000 an episode
Kyra Sedwick (The Closer) - $350,000 an episode
Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) - $200,000 an episode
Joe Mantegna (Criminal Minds) - $125,000 an episode
Nathan Fillion (Castle) - $100,000 an episode
Thomas Gibson (Criminal Minds) - $100,000 an episode
Timothy Olyphant (Justified) - $100,000 an episode

It must be really frustrating to work on the set of a show such as 2 and a Half Men and realise that while you earn a few hundred dollars a week, Sheen is pocketing a few million. A lot of the higher paid actors could take a leaf out of Keanu Reeves book, he gave away most of his pay cheque from the Matrix sequels to the behinds the scenes people. When asked why, he simply say that he had enough money.

The most shocking figure on the list for me, isnt Charlie Sheen's pay cheque but rather the 400 thousand per epsidoe that Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner each receive for the Simpsons. It really is quite astounding.

Is that Ryan Seacrest's earnings from just American Idol? He also has a radio show in America so add another few thousand on top of that.

Richard Dower

^ Seacrest has sticky fingers in alot of pies, he has his own production company and makes shows for E!, still think he's gay.

Richard Dower

Richard Dower wrote: »

^ Seacrest has sticky fingers in alot of pies, he has his own production company and makes shows for E!, still think he's gay.

And what does his sexual preference have to do with anything?

mike65

**** me who needs movies when you can make a TV series in Hollywood for a few years?
You can see why many Brits (and the odd Irishman) seek out a gig. Mind you none of them come close to Robert Mitchum for Winds of War 1983 1,250,000 dollars for a mini series. About 8 million in todays scaled up Hollywood inflation.

don ramo

sheen is on a ridiculus wage, i watch 2.5 men, it has it moments, but dear god what are the networks thinking keeping this show on the air, its had a fair old run now going onto season 8, they could easily cancel it, and the other two also, that 2 million for 3 people on the show, with one getting about 60% to himself,

and then you have the big bang theory, a funnier show with the top 3 actors getting 160,000 between them, WTF

also levi from chuck is only getting a paltry 60,000 an episode with no other cast memebers mentioned, how is it that someone on a network show (levi) get paid less than someone on PPV channel, such as anna paquin on true blood, who gets 75,000 an episode, which she is also severly underpaid for such a popular show, where does the money go,

weird to that patick dempsey is mentioned in the list, and ellen pompeo isnt, and the show is called greys anatomy,

and patrick warbutton is paid more that hes other funnier half on rule of engagment,

also if anyone would have a list of some of the sci-fi actors would be great to see what the like of robert carlyle is on for shows like stargate,

Caked Karen

Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men) - $1.25 million an episode
Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) - $550,000 an episode
.......seriously 1.25 million, that is just disgusting.............

maybe its cause i am not a fan of the show. Charlie comes in and basically act like himself and gets that kinda money when you have an actor like John Hamm, who is playing one of the most intense and brilliant characters on tv making 1.15 million less AN EPISODE! He should be up there with Laurie I think...Also you see new shows starting (like Hawaii - 50) and they are on the same wage as Hamm (clearly i like John Hamm )

I give hands up to Hugh Laurie, he is fantastic in his role and always does a good performance and Denis Leary deserves any wage he gets (i think he was on 375k)

does it have to do with the network aswell and stuff? like Mad Men (AMC) v 2.5 Men (CBS)

either way we'll never see a pick of it