2013 Drama & Comedy Actors Salary Per Episode Revealed

[djgeneral]

DRAMA

$525k + points
Mark Harmon

$400k
Mariska Hargitay

$350k
Simon Baker
Patrick Dempsey
Sandra Oh
Ellen Pompeo

$300k
Michael C. Hall

$275k
Jon Hamm
Stephen Moyer
Anna Paquin
Alexander Skarsgard

$250k
Claire Danes
David Boreanaz
Ted Danson
Damian Lewis
Kiefer Suthland (24)
Michael Weatherly

$225k
Bryan Cranston

$200k
Jeffrey Donovan

$175k
Laurence Fishburne
Lauren Graham
Pauley Perrette

$150k
Peter Dinklage
Lena Headey
Aaron Paul

$130k
Lucy Liu

$125k + points
Greg Kinnear

$125k
James Spader

$120k
Blair Underwood (Ironside; now canceled)

$105k
Connie Britton

$100k
Keri Russell
Gillian Anderson
Toni Collette
A.J. Cook
Christina Hendricks
Kirsten Vangsness

$80k
Kerry Washington

$75k
Demian Bichir
Jennifer Carpenter
Vera Farmiga
Clark Gregg
Matthew Rhys
Rebecca Romijn
Jon Tenney

$70k
Andrew Lincoln

$50k
Noah Emmerich
Tatiana Maslany
Kurtwood Smith

$45k
Mireille Enos

$37k
Megan Follows

$35k
Kate Mulgrew
Isaiah Washington

$30k
Adelaide Kane

$25k
The Fosters
John Schneider

[djgeneral]

COMEDY

$750k
Ashton Kutcher

$650k
Jon Cryer

$325k
Kaley Cuoco
Johnny Galecki
Jim Parsons

$300k
Dan Castellaneta
Julie Kavner
Yeardley Smith

$235k
Tim Allen
Patricia Heaton

$225k
Jason Segel
Alyson Hannigan
Josh Radnor
Cobie Smulders
Neil Patrick Harris

$200k + points
Ed O' Neill

$200k
Amy Poehler

$175k
Julie Bowen
Ty Burrell
Eric Stonestret
Sofia Vergara

$165k
Robin Williams

$125k
Zooey Deschanel
Anna Faris
Allison Janney

$100k
John Goodman
Jeremy Sisto

$80k
Jane Lynch
Lea Michele
Matthew Morrison

$75k
James Caan
Max Greenfield

$70k
Sarah Hyland
Rico Rodriguez
Ariel Winter

$65k + points
Rebel Wilson

$60k
Jeff Garlin

$50k
Mayim Bialik
Kristen Johnston
Allison Williams
Elijah Wood

$25k
Melissa Joan Hart
Joey Lawrence
Amy Schumer

$20k
Ashley Rickards

[ForEver Blu]

Not suprised at the top two, SVU and NCIS both have been on for what seems like an eternity

[remake]

Andrew Lincoln better ask for a 200% raise with Walking Dead only getting bigger and bigger.

[ForEver Blu]

Originally Posted by remake

Andrew Lincoln better ask for a 200% raise with Walking Dead only getting bigger and bigger.

AMC is cheap as hell.


Look at how many Showrunners have left, with budget probably being the issue.

Correction: just looked again, Hamm is paid well. Guess it's all about Mad Men at AMC.

[djgeneral]

Updated with comedy

btw, this info comes from TV GUIDE in their September issue.

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by ForEver Blu

AMC is cheap as hell.


Look at how many Showrunners have left, with budget probably being the issue.

Correction: just looked again, Hamm is paid well. Guess it's all about Mad Men at AMC.

One difference between Mad Men and Walking Dead is they have different production companies. Mad Men is produced by Lionsgate, so when Hamm signed a new deal he was negotiating with them and not AMC. Walking Dead is produced by AMC so when it's time for Lincoln to sign a new deal (and who knows how long he's signed for) they could make him an offer and if he isn't happy with it they could just threaten to kill him off.

[Buscemi]

CBS got Robin Williams for a steal, I see.

And I figured that Spader would getting more than $125,000 a show, seeing how he's a three-time Emmy winner.

[xander]

I wonder on some of the other networks also. Like Supernatural. I can't imagine Jared and Jensen make less per ep than the bottom of those lists.

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by xander

I wonder on some of the other networks also. Like Supernatural. I can't imagine Jared and Jensen make less per ep than the bottom of those lists.

I'd like to know that

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by djgeneral

$525k + points

What does this mean?

[Visco.]

Originally Posted by coopfilm

what does this mean?

+1

[djgeneral]

It didn't say what "points" where but I'm guessing something along the lines of getting a cut of DVD sales, merch, etc. that type of thing?

[Buscemi]

Originally Posted by djgeneral

It didn't say what "points" where but I'm guessing something along the lines of getting a cut of DVD sales, merch, etc. that type of thing?

That's correct. Similar to how actors can get a percentage of the box office gross when doing a movie.

[Clark Kent]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

What does this mean?

Percentage points off the gross revenues. It's usually reserved for actors with serious clout or integral to the production, like Tom Welling on Smallville for example.

The list tells me that some actors have better agents than others.

[fatediesel]

In TV points can mean they get a cut of the syndication revenue. The cast of Friends all had points in their later deals and I read a report a couple years back that each of the cast members was still making about $5 million per year off syndication money. The Seinfeld cast (other than Jerry) wasn't able to get syndication points in their deal, but did get points for merchandise and DVD sales in their final deal. As co-creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David have made over $400 million each in syndication money. The voice actors of The Simpsons try to get syndication points every time their contracts are up, but Fox has never given in. To get syndication points you've got to have a lot of leverage because points are going to cost the production company money for as long as the show is syndicated so they are only going to give points to people who could pretty much end the show by leaving.