|The Big Bang Theory|Howard Wolowitz | rowspan="2" | $900,000 | rowspan="2" | $ | rowspan="2" | 2017-19 | rowspan="2" | |- style="text-align:center;" |Kunal Nayyar |Raj Koothrapali |- style="text-align:center;" |Roseanne Barr | Roseanne|Roseanne Conner |$875,000 |$ |1996-97 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Ashton Kutcher | Two and a Half Men|Walden Schmidt |$755,000 |$ |2014 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Drew Carey |The Drew Carey Show|Drew Carey |$750,000 |$ | 2001–04 | |- style="text-align:center;" |David Hyde Pierce |Frasier|Niles Crane |$750,000 |$ | 2004 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Lauren Graham | rowspan="2" |Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life|Lorelai Gilmore | rowspan="2" |$750,000 | rowspan="2" |$ | rowspan="2" |2016 | rowspan="2" | |- style="text-align:center;" |Alexis Bledel |Rory Gilmore |- style="text-align:center;" | Bryan Cranston | Your Honor| Michael Desiato | $750,000 | $ | 2019–2020 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Hugh Laurie |House|Dr. Gregory House |$700,000 |$ |2014 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Andrew Lincoln |The Walking Dead|Rick Grimes |$650,000 |$ |2017–18 | |- style="text-align:center;" | Kate Winslet | Mare of Easttown| Mare Sheehan | $650,000 | $ | 2019–2020 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Jon Cryer |Two and a Half Men|Alan Harper | $620,000 |$ | 2013–15 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Julia Louis-Dreyfus | rowspan="3" |Seinfeld|Elaine Benes | rowspan="3" |$600,000 | rowspan="3" |$ | rowspan="3" |1997–98 | rowspan="3" | |- style="text-align:center;" |Jason Alexander |George Costanza |- style="text-align:center;" |Michael Richards |Cosmo Kramer |- style="text-align:center;" | Steve Martin | rowspan="2" | Only Murders in the Building| Charles-Haden Savage | rowspan="2" | $600,000 | rowspan="2" | $ | rowspan="2" | 2020– | rowspan="6" | |- style="text-align:center;" | Martin Short | Oliver Putnam |- style="text-align:center;" | Gillian Anderson | rowspan="3" | The First Lady| Eleanor Roosevelt | rowspan="3" | $600,000 | rowspan="3" |$ | rowspan="3" | 2021– |- style="text-align:center;" | Viola Davis | Michelle Obama |- style="text-align:center;" | Michelle Pfeiffer | Betty Ford |- style="text-align:center;" | Pedro Pascal | The Last of Us| Joel Miller | $600,000 | $ | 2021– |- style="text-align:center;" |Ellen Pompeo |Grey's Anatomy|Meredith Grey |$575,000 |$ |2005– | |- style="text-align:center;" | Alec Baldwin | Dr. Death| Robert Henderson | $575,000 | $ | 2020–2021 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Norman Reedus |The Walking Dead|Daryl Dixon |$550,000 |$ |2017–18 | |- style="text-align:center;" |Sofía Vergara |Modern Family'' |Gloria Pritchett |$500,000 |$ |2009–2020 | |} Television hosts Network primetime salaries per season Daytime annual salaries ''' News presenters References Highest paid stars Highest paid stars television stars List television stars