The Highest Paid Actors on Television
Kelley Cuoco, Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki each make a cool $1 million per episode.*
*All salary data from Variety magazine, October 2016.
CBS Television
Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham will receive $750,000 each per episode to reprise their roles on The Gilmore Girls for Netflix.
Netflix
The star of NCIS on CBS earns $525,000 per episode.
CBS Television
Kit Harrington, Emalia Clarke, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Peter Dinklage each make $500,000 per episode on HBO. No word on what the dragons are paid.
HBO
The star of House of Cards on Netflix makes $500,000 per episode.
Netflix
Claire Danes is paid $450,000 per episode on Showtime's Homeland.
Showtime Inc
Mariska Hargitay makes $450,000 per episode on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
NBC Television
The star of HBO's Ballers earns $400,000 per episode.
HBO
ABC pays $400,000 per episode to Ellen Pompeo, star of Grey's Anatomy.
ABC Television
Drew Barrymore is making $350,000 per episode on Netflix's upcoming Santa Clarita Diet.
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Swedish-American actor Joel Kinnaman is being paid $350,000 per episode on Netflix's Altered Carbon, currently in production.
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Jonah Hill and Emma Stone are being paid $350,000 each per episode for the upcoming Netflix series Maniac.
Netflix
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman are receiving $350,000 each per episode for the upcoming HBO series Big Little Lies.
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Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith and Nancy Cartwright earn $350,000 each per episode for their roles as the Simpson family (among many, many, MANY other characters on the show).
Fox Television