Biography & Early Wealth Journey

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From film actors to TV actors to directors, producers, agents, screenwriters, and more – let's take a look at what the top earners in show business make. As they say, "there's no business like show business…"

Film Actor

Primary Income Streams & Multi-Million Contracts

Salary: $19 million for Jumanji

TV Actors

Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki

Salary: $1 million per episode for The Big Bang Theory

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Newscaster

Salary: $25 million for Today Show

Runners Up:

Bill O'Reilly

Wealth Trajectory & Future Earnings Projections

Salary: $20 million for The O'Reilly Factor

Salary: $18 million for Good Morning America

Salary: $10 million for The Kelly Files

Director

Salary: $20 million plus 20% of box office gross

Producer

Salary: $2.5 million upfront plus a percentage of the box office gross

Screenwriter

Salary: $8 million plus $350,000 per week for rewrites for X Men: Apocalypse

Show Runner

Salary: $50,000 per episode for Better Call Saul

Agents

Ari Emanuel – WME-IMG

Richard Lovett – CAA

Salary: $10 million +

Studio Head

Stacey Snider

Salary: estimated $5 million for Co-Chair of 20th Century Fox

CEO

Salary: $56.8 million for CBS

Digital

Salary: $15 million for You Tube Channel PewDiePie

Other:

Animator: $105,000

Boom Operator: $80,000

Makeup Artist: $79,500

Craft Services: $65,000

Assistant: $30,000