Big Bang Theory might be in its last season, however, its stars are as yet making millions for the time being. Four of the best five most generously compensated TV performing artists have the CBS hit parody to thank for their great paydays, including top-positioned Jim Parsons, who took $26.5 million pretax in a year going before June 1, 2018. All four Big Bang Theory stars saw their paychecks drop from a year ago after the first cast picked to take a cut from an expected $1 million a scene to $900,000 with an end goal to support Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch’s charge. However, despite everything they catch purposes of the show’s back-end, which includes an expected seven figures per year for each.
Adjusting the best five is NCIS’s Mark Harmon, who banks heaps of cash from the CBS police procedural. Like the Big Bang Theory cast, he has shrewdly arranged a cut of the show’s benefits.
Together, the world’s 10 most generously compensated TV performing artists earned $181 million between June 1, 2017, and June 1, 2018, down from $185 million in a similar period a year ago.
New to the rundown is Andrew Lincoln from The Walking Dead, who joins the positioning for the first timeThe just on-screen character to drop off the positioning is Kevin Spacey, who was blamed for a few tallies of sexual unfortunate behavior and was dropped from his job of Frank Underwood on House of Cards. (He has denied the claims.)
The World’s Highest-Paid Actors 2018
1. Jim Parsons
Earnings: $26.5 million
Primary Show: Big Bang Theory
2. Johnny Galecki
$25 million
Big Bang Theory
3. (tie) Simon Helberg
$23.5 million
Big Bang Theory
3. (tie) Kunal Nayyar
$23.5 million
Big Bang Theory
5. Mark Harmon
$19 million
NCIS
6. Ed O’Neill
$14 million
Modern Family
7. Eric Stonestreet
$13.5 million
Modern Family
8. Jesse Tyler Ferguson
$13 million
Modern Family
9. Ty Burrell
$12 million
Modern Family
10. Andrew Lincoln
$11 million
The Walking Dead
