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Monday, December 31, 2007

Who Are The Highest Paid TV Stars?


JULY 26, 2007: The highest paid "Desperate Housewife" shares the same position with the most expensive "Grey's Anatomy" star on the just released chart of top paid entertainers in the TV industry.


According to this week's TV Guide, "Grey's" star Ellen Pompeo (snapped yesterday at "The Bourne Ultimatum" premiere in LA) who plays the titular character on the show and the recently wed "Desperate Housewife" Eva Longoria both earn $200,000 per episode giving them #7 on the chart of the highest paid TV stars.



The top prime-time position went to William Petersen of CBS CSI who earns half a million USD per episode.

The highest paid TV ceebrity overall is of course talk queen Oprah Winfrey with an unbelievable $260 million per year.

The highest paid news anchor is the lowest-rated one: Katie Couric who moved from NBC's Today to CBS Evening News earns $15 million per year.

Here are the charts:


TOP FIVE (all salaries are per year)

Oprah Winfrey ("The Oprah Winfrey Show"): $260 million

Simon Cowell ("American Idol"): $45 million

Judge Sheindlin ("Judge Judy"): $30 million

Katie Couric ("CBS Evening News Anchor"): $15 million

Zach Braff ("Scrubs"): $6.3 million


NETWORK PRIME TIME (all salaries are per episode)

William Petersen ("CSI"): $500,000

Charlie Sheen ("Two and a Half Men"): $350,000

Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: SVU"): $350,000

Chris Meloni ("Law & Order: SVU"): $350,000

Hugh Laurie ("House"): $300,000

Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("New Adventures of Old Christine"): $225,000

Ellen Pompeo ("Grey's Anatomy"): $200,000

Eva Longoria ("Desperate Housewives"): $200,000


DAYTIME (all salaries are per year)

Judge Judy: $30 million

Bob Barker: $10 million

Maury Povich (per year plus profits): $7 million

Ellen DeGeneres: $5 million

Jerry Springer: $3 million - 4 million

Tyra Banks: $3.5 million


NEWS ANCHORS (all salaries are per year)

Katie Couric ("CBS Evening News" anchor): $15 million

Matt Lauer (NBC "Today" co-anchor): $12 million

Meredith Vieira (NBC "Today" co-anchor): $10 million

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Labels: Ellen Pompeo, Eva Longoria, TV Business

posted by Justin Van De Kamp at 10:30 AM

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting.
I guess salary doesn't include money they get for being a producer?
In that case Ellen Degeneres would be much higher ranked, I guess.

Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 1:26:00 PM EDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thanks Justin for the most interesting post

I don't think that SVU is doing good enough in the ratings to justify Chris/Mariska's huge salary (although I have a thing for Chris from his Oz days!)

And Ellen Pompeo is far from the star of her show, which is ironic because she is the title character. She doesn't get more screen time than the others, and it seems that Katherine Heigl is going to be gunning for her salary after Knocked Up did so well.

Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 2:50:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Justin Van De Kamp said...

you're very welcome. I also believe Patrick Dempsey is right there neck by neck with Pompeo. No surprise given how some people go ga-ga over him.

Friday, July 27, 2007 at 3:36:00 AM EDT  

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