This is a list of people starring on American television that are the highest-paid, based on various sources. Television series TV and streaming salaries per episode {| class="sortable wikitable" |+ |- style="text-align:center; background:#d6d6d6;" ! Name ! Program ! Role ! Salary ! Inflation Adjusted ! Year ! |- style="text-align:center;" |Jennifer Aniston | rowspan="2" |The Morning Show |Alex Levy | rowspan="2" | $2 million | rowspan="2" | $ | rowspan="2" | 2019– | rowspan="2" | |- style="text-align:center;" |Reese Witherspoon |Bradley Jackson |- style="text-align:center;" |Charlie Sheen |Two and a Half Men |Charlie Harper |$1.8 million |$ |2010–11 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Ray Romano |Everybody Loves Raymond |Raymond Barone |$1.725 million |$ | 2003–05 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Kelsey Grammer |Frasier |Frasier Crane |$1.6 million |$ | 2002–04 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Chris Pratt |The Terminal List |James Reece |$1.4 million |$ |2022– | |- style="text-align:center;" |Tim Allen |Home Improvement|Tim Taylor |$1.25 million |$ | 1998–99 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Jerry Seinfeld |Seinfeld|Jerry Seinfeld |$1 million |$ | 1997–98 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Helen Hunt | rowspan="2" |Mad About You|Jamie Buchman | rowspan="2" | $1 million | rowspan="2" | $ | rowspan="2" |1998–99 | rowspan="2" | |- style="text-align:center;" |Paul Reiser |Paul Buchman |- style="text-align:center;" |Jennifer Aniston | rowspan="6" |Friends|Rachel Green | rowspan="6" | $1 million | rowspan="6" |$ | rowspan="6" | 2002–04 | rowspan="6" | |- style="text-align:center;" |Courteney Cox |Monica Geller |- style="text-align:center;" |Lisa Kudrow |Phoebe Buffay |- style="text-align:center;" |Matt LeBlanc |Joey Tribbiani |- style="text-align:center;" |David Schwimmer |Ross Geller |- style="text-align:center;" |Matthew Perry |Chandler Bing |- style="text-align:center;" |James Gandolfini |The Sopranos|Tony Soprano |$1 million |$ | 2006–07 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Kaley Cuoco | rowspan="3" |The Big Bang Theory|Penny | rowspan="3" | $1 million | rowspan="3" | $ | rowspan="3" | 2015–17 | rowspan="3" | |- style="text-align:center;" |Johnny Galecki |Leonard Hofstadter |- style="text-align:center;" |Jim Parsons |Sheldon Cooper |- style="text-align:center;" |Peter Dinklage | rowspan="5" |Game of Thrones|Tyrion Lannister | rowspan="5" | $1 million | rowspan="5" | $ | rowspan="5" | 2017–18 | rowspan="5" | |- style="text-align:center;" |Nikolaj Coster-Waldau |Jaime Lannister |- style="text-align:center;" |Lena Headey |Cersei Lannister |- style="text-align:center;" |Emilia Clarke |Daenerys Targaryen |- style="text-align:center;" |Kit Harington |Jon Snow |- style="text-align:center;" |Nicole Kidman | rowspan="2" |Big Little Lies|Celeste Wright | rowspan="2" | $1 million | rowspan="2" | $ | rowspan="2" | 2019 | rowspan="2" | |- style="text-align:center;" |Reese Witherspoon |Madeline Martha Mackenzie |- style="text-align:center;" |Jeff Bridges |The Old Man|Dan Chase |$1 million |$ |2021– | |- style="text-align:center;" |Simon Helberg | rowspan="2"