List of highest paid American television stars

This is a list of people starring on American TV that are the highest paid, based on various sources of news and reliable websites. This list includes the top paid TV stars, the Network primetime salaries per episode, which includes stars from Two and a Half Men and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. It also includes the highest salaries per year which include Tyra Banks, Maury Povich and Ellen DeGeneres, and the top paid news presenters, with some people of the Today Show and the CBS Evening News.


Network primetime salaries per episode

Name Program Role Salary Year References
Charlie Sheen Two and a Half Men Charlie Harper $1.8 million 2010-2011 [1]
Kelsey Grammer Frasier Dr Frasier Crane $1.6 million 2002-2004 [2]
Ray Romano Everybody Loves Raymond Raymond Barone $1.7 million 2003-2005 [3]
Tim Allen Home Improvement Tim Taylor $1.25 million 1998-1999 [1]
James Gandolfini The Sopranos Tony Soprano $1 million 2006-2007 [4]
Jennifer Aniston Friends Rachel Green $1 million 2002–2004 [5]
Courteney Cox Monica Geller
Lisa Kudrow Phoebe Buffay
Matt LeBlanc Joey Tribbiani
David Schwimmer Dr. Ross Geller
Matthew Perry Chandler Bing
Jerry Seinfeld Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld $1 million +
Helen Hunt Mad About You Jamie Buchman $1 million 1998-99 [6]
Paul Reiser Paul Buchman
Johnny Galecki The Big Bang Theory Leonard Hofstadter $1 million 2014-2017 [7]
Jim Parsons Sheldon Cooper
Kaley Cuoco Penny
Ashton Kutcher Two and a Half Men Walden Schmidt $755,000 [1]
Drew Carey The Drew Carey Show Drew Carey $750,000 2001-2004 [1]
Lauren Graham Gilmore Girls Lorelai Gilmore $750,000 2016 [8]
Alexis Bledel Rory Gilmore
Kunal Nayyar The Big Bang Theory Rajesh Koothrapalli $750,000 2014-2017 [1]
Simon Helberg Howard Wolowitz
David Hyde Pierce Frasier Dr Niles Crane $750,000 [9]
Hugh Laurie House M.D Dr Gregory House $700,000
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Seinfeld Elaine Benes $600,000 1997-1998 [1]
Jason Alexander George Costanza
Michael Richards Cosmo Kramer
Jon Cryer Two and a Half Men Alan Harper

Morning top paid salary per year

Name Program Role Salary Year References
Judith Sheindlin Judge Judy Judge $47 million [10]
Barbara Walters The View Host $13 million [11]
Bob Barker The Price Is Right Game show host $10 million [12]
Maury Povich Maury Host $7 million (plus profits) [13]
Ellen DeGeneres The Ellen DeGeneres Show Host $5 million [14][15]
Jerry Springer The Jerry Springer Show Host $3 million - 4 million [16]
Tyra Banks The Tyra Banks Show Host $3.5 million [17][18]

Top paid news presenters

Name Program Role Salary Year References
Katie Couric CBS Evening News News anchor $15 million [19]
Matt Lauer Today Anchor $21 million [20]
Meredith Vieira Today Anchor $15 million [21][22]

Gallery

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Highest Paid TV Actors Of All Time Per Per Episode - UPROXX". UPROXX.
  2. ↑ "Kelsey Grammer: NBC's $1.6 Million Man". PEOPLE.com.
  3. ↑ "For $50 Mil, Producers Love Raymond". PEOPLE.com.
  4. ↑ "Sopranos actors end pay dispute". Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  5. ↑ Carter, Bill (February 12, 2002). "'Friends' Deal Will Pay Each Of Its 6 Stars $22 Million". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ Flint, Joe (April 10, 1998). "Mad Money". Entertainment Weekly.
  7. ↑ Rice, Lynette (April 8, 2014). "Big Bang Theory Actors Set to Earn $1 Million an Episode". People. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Salaries of TV's Top Talent Revealed". Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  9. ↑ Acuna, Kirsten (September 25, 2012). "The Highest-Paid Actors On TV This Fall". Business Insider. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  10. ↑ "TVs Highest Paid Star? Judge Judy (by a mile)". newser.com. Aug 22, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Barbara Walters". Forbes.com. June 14, 2007. Retrieved May 8, 2008.
  12. ↑ "Spotlights Monologues extended". Toronto Star. January 30, 2001.
  13. ↑ Deeb, Gary (September 15, 1978). "Ron Hunter and Maury Povich find there's more to life than Channel 5". Chicago Tribune.
  14. ↑ Kinon, Cristina (October 1, 2007). "Oprah tops Forbes TV list with $260 million salary". Chicago Tribune.
  15. ↑ "Oprah's $260M salary proves talk isn't cheap". CBC News. July 25, 2007.
  16. ↑ "Springer's denies knowledge about show's business details". June 5, 1999.
  17. ↑ http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-3216709/Everybody-loves-raises-LIFE-ARTS.html[]
  18. ↑ http://www.thestreet.com/p/newsanalysis/sbmanagement/10380979_2.html[]
  19. ↑ Carter, Bill (December 20, 2001). "Katie Couric Signs NBC Contract Said to Be Largest in TV News". The New York Times. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  20. ↑ Starr, Michael (May 2, 2002). "Matt Lauer Stays for Another 'Day'". Fox News. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  21. ↑ Durden, Douglas (September 14, 2006). "'Today' gives new host a very warm welcome". Richmond Times.
  22. ↑ "Vieira chosen as Couric's 'Today' successor". NBC. April 7, 2006. Retrieved September 10, 2014.

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