List of highest paid American television stars
Network primetime salaries per episode

List of highest paid American television stars

Section Title: Network primetime salaries per episode
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Name	Program	Role	Salary	Inflation Adjusted	Year	Ref.

Charlie Sheen	Two and a Half Men	Charlie Harper	$1.8 million	$2,005,000	2010–11

Ray Romano	Everybody Loves Raymond	Raymond Barone	$1.7 million	$2,181,000	2003–05

Kelsey Grammer	Frasier	Frasier Crane	$1.6 million	$2,122,000	2002–04

Tim Allen	Home Improvement	Tim Taylor	$1.25 million	$1,880,000	1998–99

Jennifer Aniston	The Morning Show	Karen Kessler	$1.25 million	$1,250,000	2019–

Reese Witherspoon	Bradley Jackson

Peter Dinklage	Game of Thrones	Tyrion Lannister	$1 million	$1,022,000	2017–18

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau	Jaime Lannister

Lena Headey	Cersei Lannister

Emilia Clarke	Daenerys Targaryen

Kit Harington	Jon Snow

James Gandolfini	The Sopranos	Tony Soprano	$1 million	$1,208,000	2006–07

Sarah Jessica Parker	Sex and the City	Carrie Bradshaw	$1 million	$1,326,000	2004

Jennifer Aniston	Friends	Rachel Green	$1 million	$1,326,000	2002–04

Courteney Cox	Monica Geller

Lisa Kudrow	Phoebe Buffay

Matt LeBlanc	Joey Tribbiani

David Schwimmer	Ross Geller

Matthew Perry	Chandler Bing

Helen Hunt	Mad About You	Jamie Buchman	$1 million	$1,504,000	1998–99

Paul Reiser	Paul Buchman

Jerry Seinfeld	Seinfeld	Jerry Seinfeld	$1 million	$1,537,000	1997–98

Johnny Galecki	The Big Bang Theory	Leonard Hofstadter	$1 million	$1,000,000	2017–19

Jim Parsons	Sheldon Cooper

Kunal Nayyar	Raj Koothrapali

Simon Helberg	Howard Wolowitz

Kaley Cuoco	Penny

Nicole Kidman	Big Little Lies	Celeste Wright	$1 million	$1,000,000	2019

Reese Witherspoon	Madeline Martha Mackenzie

Ashton Kutcher	Two and a Half Men	Walden Schmidt	$755,000	$788,000	2014

Drew Carey	The Drew Carey Show	Drew Carey	$750,000	$995,000	2001–04

Lauren Graham	Gilmore Girls	Lorelai Gilmore	$750,000	$783,000	2016

Alexis Bledel	Rory Gilmore

David Hyde Pierce	Frasier	Niles Crane	$750,000	$995,000	2004

Hugh Laurie	House	Dr. Gregory House	$700,000	$764,000	2014

Andrew Lincoln	The Walking Dead	Rick Grimes	$650,000	$650,000	2017–18

Jon Cryer	Two and a Half Men	Alan Harper	$620,000	$655,000	2013–15

Julia Louis-Dreyfus	Seinfeld	Elaine Benes	$600,000	$922,000	1997–98

Jason Alexander	George Costanza

Michael Richards	Cosmo Kramer

Norman Reedus	The Walking Dead	Daryl Dixon	$550,000	$550,000	2017–18

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In 2017, Headey became one of the highest paid actors on television.

final_sentence: In 2017, Headey became one of the highest paid actors on television.