1 of 40 Michael Yarish/CBS
Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Salary: $750,000 and $650,000 per episode, respectively
2 of 40 Sonja Flemming/CBS
Mark Harmon, NCIS
Salary: $525,000 per episode +points
3 of 40 Michael Parmelee/NBC
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Salary: $400,000 per episode
4 of 40 Sonja Flemming/CBS
Kaley Cuoco, Johny Galecki, and Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Salary: $350,000 per episode
5 of 40 Sonja Flemming/CBS
Simon Baker, The Mentalist
Salary: $350,000 per episode
6 of 40 Ron Tom/ABC
Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo and Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy
Salary: $350,000 per episode
7 of 40 Randy Tepper/Showtime
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Salary: $300,000 per episode
8 of 40 FOX
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Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Julie Kavner (Marge) and Yeardley Smith (Lisa), The Simpsons
Salary: $300,000 per episode
9 of 40 Michael Yarish/AMC
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Salary: $275,000 per episode
10 of 40 John P. Johnson/HBO
Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin and Alexander Skarsgard, True Blood
Salary: $275,000 per episode
11 of 40 Ray Mickshaw/FOX
David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel, Bones
Salary: $250,000 per episode
12 of 40 Kent Smith/Showtime
Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, Homeland
Salary: $250,000 per episode
13 of 40 Michael Yarish/CBS
Michael Weatherly NCIS
Salary: $250,000 per episode
14 of 40 Craig Sjodin/ABC; Michael Ansell/ABC
Tim Allen, Last Man Standing and Patricia Heaton, The Middle
Salary: $235,000 per episode
15 of 40 Ursula Coyote/AMC
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Salary: $225,000 per episode
16 of 40 Ron P. Jaffe/Fox Television
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Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, How I Met Your Mother
Salary: $225,000 per episode
17 of 40 Peter "Hopper" Stone
Ed O'Neill, Modern Family
Salary: $200,000 per episode + points
18 of 40 NBC
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Salary: $200,000 per episode
19 of 40 Peter "Hopper" Stone/ABC; Jordin Althaus/ABC; Peter "Hopper" Stone/ABC
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Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Eric Stonestreet, Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Salary: $175,000 per episode
20 of 40 Brooke Palmer/NBC
Laurence Fishburne, Hannibal
Salary: $175,000 per episode
21 of 40 Colleen Hayes/NBC
Lauren Graham Parenthood
Salary: $175,000 per episode
22 of 40 Monty Brinton/CBS
Pauley Perrette, NCIS
Salary: $175,000 per episode
23 of 40 Cliff Lipson/CBS
Robin Williams, The Crazy Ones
Salary: $165,000 per episode
24 of 40 HBO
Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Salary: $150,000 per episode
25 of 40 Ursula Coyote/AMC
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
Salary: $150,000 per episode
26 of 40 Jojo Whilden/CBS
Lucy Liu, Elementary
Salary: $130,000 per episode
27 of 40 David Giesbrecht/NBC
James Spader, The Blacklist
Salary: $125,000 per episode
28 of 40 Jennifer Clasen/Fox
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Salary: $125,000 per episode
29 of 40 Monty Brinton/CBS
Anna Faris and Allison Janney, Mom
Salary: $125,000 per episode
30 of 40 Comedy Central
Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Salary: $25-30 million
31 of 40 Margaret Norton/NBC
Jay Leno, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Salary: $20 million per year
32 of 40 Jeffrey Neira/CBS
David Letterman, The Late Show with David Letterman
Salary: $20 million per year
33 of 40 Meghan Sinclair/Conaco/ TBS
Conan O'Brien, Conan
Salary: $12 million per year
34 of 40 Lloyd Bishop/NBC
Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Salary: $11 million per year
35 of 40 Randy Holmes/ABC
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel Live
Salary: $10 million per year
36 of 40 E!
The Kardashian Family, Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Salary: $10 million per season
37 of 40 Fox
Keith Urban, American Idol
Salary: $5 million per season
38 of 40 Trae Patton/NBC
Adam Levine and Blake Shelton The Voice
Salary: $4 million per season
39 of 40 Monty Brinton/CBS
Jeff Probst, Survivor
Salary: $4 million per season
40 of 40 Fox
Kelly Rowland, The X Factor
Salary: $2.5 million per season