Hey folks.  Good news.  If you scare the crap out of your ex-wife and then get arrested for beating your current wife you too can be the highest paid TV star by far.

Yes, Charlie Sheen a man with some serious anger issues (especially towards the women in his life) is the highest paid TV star making $1.25 million per 30 minute episode of Two and a Half Men.  That’s almost $42,000 per minute (and I am including commercials.)

Hugh Laurie (House) is the highest paid person on the drama side with $400,000 per episode, but Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni of SVU are biting his heels each making $395,000.  The women on Desperate Housewives are the highest paid women on TV with all four female leads making $400,000 each

Here are the other female salaries on TV:

Drama (per episode)
Mariska Hargitay (SVU) $395,000
Marg Helgenberger (CSI) $375,000
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)  $350,000
Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife ) $175,000
Dana Delany (Body of Proof ) $150,000
Lauren Graham (Parenthood) $150,000
Jada Pinkett Smith (HawthoRNe) $150,000
Angie Harmon (Rizzoli & Isles) $75,000
Anna Paquin (True Blood) $75,000
Shailene Woodley (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) $40,000
Ashley Tisdale (Hellcats) $30,000

Comedy (per episode)
Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives) $400,000
Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives) $400,000
Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives) $400,000
Eva Longoria Parker (Desperate Housewives) $400,000
Julie Kavner (The Simpsons) $400,000
Tina Fey (30 Rock) $350,000
Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly) $180,000
Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie) $175,000
Betty White (Hot in Cleveland) $75,000
Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) $60,000
Jane Lynch (Glee) $50,000
Selena Gomez (Wizards of Waverly Place) $30,000

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