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This is a list of people starring on American television that are the highest-paid, based on verified sources for each person.
TV and streaming salaries per episode
Name
|
Program
|
Role
|
Salary
|
Inflation Adjusted
|
Year
|
Ref.
|
Jennifer Aniston
|
The Morning Show
|
Alex Levy
|
$2 million
|
$2,383,000
|
2019–
|
[1]
[2]
|
Reese Witherspoon
|
Bradley Jackson
|
Charlie Sheen
|
Two and a Half Men
|
Charlie Harper
|
$1.8-2 million
|
$2,438,000
|
2010–11
|
[3]
|
Ray Romano
|
Everybody Loves Raymond
|
Raymond Barone
|
$1.725 million
|
$2,652,000
|
2003–05
|
[4]
|
Kelsey Grammer
|
Frasier
|
Frasier Crane
|
$1.6 million
|
$2,581,000
|
2002–04
|
[5]
|
Chris Pratt
|
The Terminal List
|
James Reece
|
$1.4 million
|
$1,648,000
|
2022–
|
[6]
|
Tim Allen
|
Home Improvement
|
Tim Taylor
|
$1.25 million
|
$2,286,000
|
1998–99
|
[3]
|
Jerry Seinfeld
|
Seinfeld
|
Jerry Seinfeld
|
$1 million
|
$1,869,000
|
1997–98
|
[7]
|
Helen Hunt
|
Mad About You
|
Jamie Buchman
|
$1 million
|
$1,829,000
|
1998–99
|
[8]
|
Paul Reiser
|
Paul Buchman
|
Jennifer Aniston
|
Friends
|
Rachel Green
|
$1 million
|
$1,613,000
|
2002–04
|
[9]
|
Courteney Cox
|
Monica Geller
|
Lisa Kudrow
|
Phoebe Buffay
|
Matt LeBlanc
|
Joey Tribbiani
|
David Schwimmer
|
Ross Geller
|
Matthew Perry
|
Chandler Bing
|
James Gandolfini
|
The Sopranos
|
Tony Soprano
|
$1 million
|
$1,469,000
|
2006–07
|
[10]
|
Kaley Cuoco
|
The Big Bang Theory
|
Penny
|
$1 million
|
$1,270,000
|
2015–17
|
[11]
|
Johnny Galecki
|
Leonard Hofstadter
|
Jim Parsons
|
Sheldon Cooper
|
Nicole Kidman
|
Big Little Lies
|
Celeste Wright
|
$1 million
|
$1,192,000
|
2019
|
[12]
|
Reese Witherspoon
|
Madeline Martha Mackenzie
|
Jeff Bridges
|
The Old Man
|
Dan Chase
|
$1 million
|
$1,177,000
|
2021–
|
[6]
|
Sarah Jessica Parker
|
And Just Like That
|
Carrie Bradshaw
|
$1 million
|
$1,124,000
|
2021-
|
[13]
|
Simon Helberg
|
The Big Bang Theory
|
Howard Wolowitz
|
$900,000
|
$1,092,000
|
2017-19
|
[14]
|
Kunal Nayyar
|
Raj Koothrapali
|
Roseanne Barr
|
Roseanne
|
Roseanne Conner
|
$875,000
|
$1,700,000
|
1996-97
|
[15]
|
John Goodman
|
Roseanne/
The Conners
|
Dan Conner
|
$860,000
|
$1,700,000
|
1996-97; 2019-
|
[16]
|
Ashton Kutcher
|
Two and a Half Men
|
Walden Schmidt
|
$755,000
|
$959,000
|
2014
|
[3]
|
Drew Carey
|
The Drew Carey Show
|
Drew Carey
|
$750,000
|
$1,210,000
|
2001–04
|
[3]
|
David Hyde Pierce
|
Frasier
|
Niles Crane
|
$750,000
|
$1,210,000
|
2004
|
[17]
|
Lauren Graham
|
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
|
Lorelai Gilmore
|
$750,000
|
$952,000
|
2016
|
[18]
|
Alexis Bledel
|
Rory Gilmore
|
Bryan Cranston
|
Your Honor
|
Michael Desiato
|
$750,000
|
$883,000
|
2019–2020
|
[6]
|
Hugh Laurie
|
House
|
Dr. Gregory House
|
$700,000
|
$929,000
|
2011–12
|
[19]
|
Andrew Lincoln
|
The Walking Dead
|
Rick Grimes
|
$650,000
|
$789,000
|
2017–18
|
[20]
|
Kate Winslet
|
Mare of Easttown
|
Mare Sheehan
|
$650,000
|
$765,000
|
2019–2020
|
[6]
|
Jon Cryer
|
Two and a Half Men
|
Alan Harper
|
$620,000
|
$797,000
|
2013–15
|
[21]
|
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
|
Seinfeld
|
Elaine Benes
|
$600,000
|
$1,122,000
|
1997–98
|
[3]
|
Jason Alexander
|
George Costanza
|
Michael Richards
|
Cosmo Kramer
|
Eric McCormack
|
Will & Grace
|
Will Truman
|
$600,000
|
$907,000
|
2005–06
|
[22]
|
Debra Messing
|
Grace Adler
|
Megan Mullally
|
Karen Walker
|
Sean Hayes
|
Jack McFarland
|
Steve Martin
|
Only Murders in the Building
|
Charles-Haden Savage
|
$600,000
|
$706,000
|
2020–
|
[6]
|
Martin Short
|
Oliver Putnam
|
Gillian Anderson
|
The First Lady
|
Eleanor Roosevelt
|
$600,000
|
$706,000
|
2021–
|
Viola Davis
|
Michelle Obama
|
Michelle Pfeiffer
|
Betty Ford
|
Pedro Pascal
|
The Last of Us
|
Joel Miller
|
$600,000
|
$706,000
|
2021–
|
Ellen Pompeo
|
Grey's Anatomy
|
Meredith Grey
|
$575,000
|
$685,000
|
2005–
|
[23]
|
Alec Baldwin
|
Dr. Death
|
Robert Henderson
|
$575,000
|
$677,000
|
2020–2021
|
[6]
|
Norman Reedus
|
The Walking Dead
|
Daryl Dixon
|
$550,000
|
$667,000
|
2017–18
|
[20]
|
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
|
Veep
|
Selina Meyer
|
$500,000
|
$726,000
|
2019
|
[24]
|
Sofía Vergara
|
Modern Family
|
Gloria Pritchett
|
$500,000
|
$596,000
|
2009–2020
|
[25]
|
Television hosts
Network primetime salaries per season
Daytime annual salaries
News presenters
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