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Ashton Kutcher, Two and a Half Men
Salary: $700,000 per episode
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Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Salary: $600,000 per episode
3 of 40 Eric Liebowitz/NBC
Mariska Hargitay Law & Order: SVU
Salary: $385,000 per episode
4 of 40 Ali Goldstein/NBC
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Salary: $350,000 per episode
5 of 40 ABC
Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo and Sandra Oh , Grey's Anatomy
Salary: $350,000 per episode
6 of 40 Sonja Flemming/CBS
Simon Baker, The Mentalist
Salary: $300,000 per episode
7 of 40 Ali Goldstein/NBC
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Salary: $300,000 per episode
8 of 40 Michael Yarish/CBS
Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, and Kaley Cuoco, The Big Bang Theory
Salary: $300,000 per episode
9 of 40 Sonja Flemming/CBS
Angus T. Jones, Two and a Half Men
Salary: $300,000 per episode
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Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Salary: $295,000
11 of 40 Jordin Althaus/AMC
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Salary: $250,000 per episode
12 of 40 Richard Foreman/ABC
Patricia Heaton, The Middle
Salary: $235,000 per episode
13 of 40 Craig Sjodin/ABC
Tim Allen, Last Man Standing
Salary: $225,000 per episode
14 of 40 Ray Mickshaw/Fox
David Boreanaz, Bones
Salary: $225,000 per episode
15 of 40 Sonja Flemming/CBS
Ted Danson, CSI
Salary: $225,000 per episode
16 of 40 Richard Foreman/Fox
Kiefer Sutherland, Touch
Salary: $225,000 per episode
17 of 40 Ron P. Jaffe/FOX
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
Salary: $210,000 per episode
18 of 40 HBO
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Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgård, True Blood
Salary: $200,000 per episode
19 of 40 Sonja Flemming/CBS
Pauley Perrette and Michael Weatherly, NCIS
Salary: $175,000 per episode
20 of 40 Peter "Hopper" Stone/ABC
The Adult Cast of Modern Family
Salary: $175,000 per episode each
21 of 40 HBO
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
Salary: $150,000 per episode
22 of 40 Sonja Flemming/CBS
Chris O'Donnell, NCIS: Los Angeles
Salary: $140,000 per episode
23 of 40 TNT
Eric McCormack, Perception
Salary: $125,000 per episode
24 of 40 Kent Smith/Showtime
Claire Danes, Homeland
Salary: $110,000 per episode
25 of 40 Sonja Flemming/CBS
Alex O'Loughlin, Hawaii Five-0
Salary: $110,000 per episode
26 of 40 Katherine Bomboy Thornton/ABC
Connie Britton, Nashville
Salary: $100,000 per episode
27 of 40 Patrick Harbron/ABC
Terry O'Quinn and Vanessa Williams, 666 Park Avenue
Salary: $100,000 per episode
28 of 40 Monty Brinton/CBS
Jeanne Tripplehorn, Criminal Minds
Salary: $100,000 per episode
29 of 40 John Paul Filo/CBS
David Letterman, The Late Show with David Letterman
Salary: $28 million per year
30 of 40 Paul Drinkwater/NBC
Jay Leno, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Salary: $25 million per year
31 of 40 Meghan Sinclair/TBS
Conan O'Brien, Conan
Salary: $12 million per year
32 of 40 Sonja Flemming/CBS
Craig Ferguson, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Salary: $8 million per year
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Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Lately
Salary: $8 million per year
34 of 40 Scott Gries/PictureGroup/Comedy Central
Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
Salary: $6 million per year
35 of 40 Lloyd Bishop/NBC
Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Salary: $5 million per year
36 of 40 Michael Becker/FOX
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
Salary: $15 million per season
37 of 40 Ray Mickshaw/FOX
Britney Spears, The X Factor
Salary: $10 million per season
38 of 40 Justin Lubin/NBC
Christina Aguilera, The Voice
Salary: 225,000 per episode
39 of 40 Patrick Wymore/FOX
Gordon Ramsay, Hell's Kitchen
Salary: $225,000 per episode
40 of 40 Lewis Jacobs/NBC; Justin Lubin/NBC
Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton, The Voice
Salary: $100,000 per episode