Ryan Reynolds

For an upcoming Netflix original, vigilante, action, comedy-thriller movie, yet to be released this 2019, 6 Underground, and for the yet to be named lead role, Ryan Reynolds, a Canadian-American actor, comedian, film producer, screenwriter, and a 2017 Hollywood Walk of Fame Star awardee, is set to receive Twenty Seven Million dollars ($27 M). This movie credit in his name is set to be released on December 13, 2019. Blake Lively, his wife, must be already proud and so the other millions of fans all across the world must be proud and in the waiting. And Netflix did a good movie investment in him, as he is quite a catch.

Katy Perry

Take it from this Roar singer, who when asked for several times if she can judge on the American Idol, had no clue how much she would be paid for when she finally fits a time for it. And at last in 2017, for the American Idol reboot that aired on ABC in 2018, her appearance in the singing competition show as a judge, earned for her net worth additional $25 million. It takes not much of an investment for Perry to show up as her usual fun self really. And what did the ABC Entertainment President, Channing Dungey have to say to Entertainment Weekly? Only that they hit the jackpot with Katy!

Mariah Carey

And with credits to the Diva that she is—Mariah Carey landed a judging role for American Idol series in 2012, after J. Lo left the show. And according to TMZ, Carey was tapped to get $18 million, which is, by the way, the biggest offer for any singer to earn from reality TV at that time. According also to Spin, that salary breaks down to $450,000 per episode or a $144,000 for a day of filming. Not bad, to just show up and have fun with your co-judges and the contestants! Also, please don’t assume that just ‘cause we don’t see Carey around in American Idol she isn’t hitting the big numbers any more. Because the New York Post has just reported that she received more than $4 million for a wedding guesting in the grand daughter’s wedding of a Russian billionaire also in the invitation is the legendary singer Elton John in 2017.

Dr. Dre

The rapper and music executive Jimmy Iovine had this crazy idea of selling their headphone company, Beats Electronic to Apple for a cool $3 billion in 2014. And according to Forbes, this deal included a cash payment of $2.6 billion and with another $400 million in stock investment. And since then both Dr. Dre and Iovine have assumed roles in Apple. And in the months that followed since news broke out, the Los Angeles Times had it on record that Dr. Dre labeled himself “the first billionaire in hip-hop,” He further talked about his feat with The Guardian, saying. “I’ve been living the American Dream for over 25 years—just being able to do what I do, be creative and make money out of it, it’s incredible,” reflecting on his rags to riches biography, he further added, “I could never have imagined where I am now.”

Sofia Vergara

This Colombian-born bombshell is more than just a pretty face as she was named in 2017 as the highest-paid television actress for the sixth time already with a whopping paycheck of $41.5 million. And though she and Julie Bowen, her Modern Family co-star actually rate the same per episode, it’s the long list of endorsements to the degree of her face pops up on everything from coffeemakers to makeups, that loads up her bank. Forbes reported that from 2011 to 2016, Vergara earned a total of $157.5 million pretax, and that about 60% of that came from endorsements and licensing deals.

Floyd Mayweather

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is an eleven-time undefeated boxing world champion boxer and best known for his flashy lifestyle. In 2017, in as one-fight comeback bout against mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, after 10 rounds, he walked away with at least $100 million (with final tallies could reach up to $275 million). In 2015, for his high-profile fight with Manny Pacquiao, he earned $250 million. And with boxing now almost behind him, Fortune reported that he puts his money to work and his investment plan includes acquisitions of commercial real estates, opening more gyms and strip clubs. There is no stopping this human money machine!

Tom Hanks

From the 1994 movie Forrest Gump and the role of Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks earned an estimate of Sixty Million dollars ($60 M). This box-office hit movie is based on the 1986 novel by Winston Groom and revolves around the depiction of the life of a slow-witted yet a kind-hearted man from Alabama who unwittingly influenced and witnessed several defining and historical events of America. And even though the movie significantly differed from the novel, it did hit box-office credits to the good movie directing and outstanding performance of Tom Hanks marked with Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Hanks, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects and Best Film Editing. For Tom Hanks, this is another reason why performance-based pay is always a good deal.

Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage, an American actor and producer, played the credit role of Tyrion Lannister on the HBO fantasy drama TV series, Game of Thrones. His role in the TV series has brought four times the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe for the same role in 2011. Being everyone’s favourite Lannister, he is reported to receive a salary of One Million Two Hundred Thousand dollars ($ 1.2 M) every episode of Game of Thrones. He is also rumoured to be worth Fifteen Million dollars ($15 M) in net worth. Not bad for a self-identified dwarf and hope he doen’t blow it all on booze.

Natalia Dyer

Known as Nancy Wheeler in Netflix science fiction horror series, The Stranger Things, Natalia Dyer, American actress from Nashville, Tennessee and graduate of Nashville School of the Arts, joins in with the kiddos with a big scoop of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand dollars ($250,000) pay per episode. Her TV credit in this Netflix series is not her first on screen, as she was also part of Hannah Montana: The Movie in 2009 with movie credit as Clarissa Granger. And thereon appeared in several films and even in indie films, her most recent is Netflix horror film, Velvet Buzzsaw, as Coco.

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld, took second spot on the Forbes’ list of America’s highest paid stand-up comedian in 2019. According to Forbes, he has raked in Sixty Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($60.5 M) earnings for the year. It is reported that for his year’s earning a good Forty One Million dollars ($41 M) are actually payments from Hulu for streaming rights of his television credit, Seinfeld, that run from 1989 to 1998. This just proves that sitcom TV series of his fictionalized self, which was often described as being a show about nothing, continues to attract audiences even from twenty years ago. Not bad for a comedian to specializes on observational comedy. He still has the relevance of today.