Big Payday for the Big Bang Stars

[dfergie]

NELLIE ANDREEVA

Big Bang leads Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, and Jim Parsons have agreed to a major salary hike that would bring the trio's salaries to $200,000 an episode for the upcoming fourth season, up from about $60,000 last season. The salaries will rise to $250,000 in Season 5, then $300,000 in Season 6 and 350,000 in Season 7.

Source & More; deadline.com

 

[Ramy]

Holy crap that is a lot of money.

 

[mdonnelly]

Not up to "Friends" paychecks yet, but still not peanuts.

 

[Stargazer]

Friends got 1 million each if I remember correctly. Two and a Half Men is supposed to be one of the top rated shows so I wonder how much they are getting paid? I am thinking even more than Big Bang stars are.

 

[yaz96]

I think Charlie negotiated to 800k per episode for this new season.

 

[Peter Parker]

According to this article Charlie gets $2 million pewr episode with a guaranteed minimum number of episodes.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

TV salaries are mind-boggling. Gross really.