Terry Fator

It was in 2007 that America’s Got Talent season 2 gave us a household name we will pay to see thereafter, Terry Fator, an American ventriloquist, impressionist, stand-up comedian, and singer from Dallas, Texas. Since 2007, his show credit routines mostly involve ventriloquial impersonations and the use of 15 different puppets. Aside from the million dollar prize from winning the reality tv competition, he immediately got himself a 5-year $100 million contract with The Mirage hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, a contract he just celebrated 10 years with and counting. For the year alone, he has earned Seventeen Million dollars ($17 M) as continuing headliner in The Mirage.

Jeff Dunham

Jeff Dunham is an American ventriloquist, stand-up comedian, actor and voice talent for various animated flicks. His show credit routines always involve a dressed-down version of Don Rickles with multiple personality disorder. And though Time would describe his character as politically incorrect and gratuitously insulting and ill-tempered, he is widely praised and credited for reviving the art of ventriloquism and did more promotion of it than anyone since and was called America’s favourite comedian by Slate. For the year, he has earned a whopping Fifteen Million dollars ($15 M) for his touring shows and gigs and some merchandise and DVD sales.

Aziz Ansari

American actor, writer, producer, director, and comedian, and known for his TV credits as Tom Haverford on NBC series, Parks and Recreation, also as creator and lead for Netflix series Master of None, Aziz Ansari is said to be making a comeback on the screen after his Road to Nowhere tour across the US and various parts of the world. From his tour which ended mid-2019, he earned a stunning, Thirteen Million dollar ($13 M) and that’s just coming for a quarter of the year before the streaming of his new Netflix special, Right Now. Though 2018 had been a rough year following the scandal he got involved in, making it to Forbes’ 2019 Top 10 list of highest paid comedians proved that it may have not been that too bad at all.

Jim Parsons

For CBS recently concluded sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, TV series credit as Sheldon Cooper, Jim Parsons, screen and stage actor and producer, is worth One Million dollar ($1 M) per episode. Being the richest of the cast members of the hit sitcom, with a reported stunning net worth of Seventy Million dollars ($70 M), Parsons willingly took a pay cut in favour of two of the regular cast members in the show for their well-deserved pay on the work they put into their roles and the show. Since the cut, his new pay per episode became Nine Hundred Thousand dollars ($900,000).

Kaley Cuoco

Actress and producer, Kaley Cuoco, after starring in a streak of TV credits from supporting to lead roles, has landed to yet again another successful Twelve-year running CBS sitcom, The Big Bang Theory. It was reported that she has been receiving a handsome check of One Million dollars ($1 M) per episode from 2014. In the same year, she was also honoured to receive a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And present in the unveiling was her tennis player husband and her fellow lead casts in the sitcom. It was also just recently that she willing agreed for a pay cut to Nine Hundred Thousand dollars ($900,000) per episode.

Johnny Galecki

Johnny Galecki, an American actor, who is most known for his TV credit role as Leonard Hofstadter in the Twelve-year run CBS Sitcom, The Big Bang Theory. Being on of the show’s original cast members, he’s original pay from seasons eight through ten. However, in favour of their other co-stars, he has willingly opted for a pay cut from One Million dollars ($1 M) to Nine Hundred Thousand dollars ($900,000). Galecki has been named by Forbes as second highest paid TV actor in 2018 having estimated earnings of Twenty Five Million dollars ($25 M) for the year. What a worthy way to be tied up to a show.

Kunal Nayyar

British-born Indian-American actor, Kunal Nayyar, is known for his CBS TV credit for the Twelve-year running sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, for his role as Raj Koothrappali. He is also reportedly Forbes’ 2018 third-highest paid TV actor in 2015 and 2018 with annual earnings reaching Twenty Million dollars ($20 M) and Twenty Three Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($23.5 M), respectively. As one of the show’s founding member, he has seen his pay raised over the years to a stunning amount of One Million dollars ($1 M), however in the last two seasons, he has opted to earn a hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) short in favour of his other co-stars. While in the show, in 2016 he was able to finish writing and publish his book, Yes, My Accent is Real. A journey from New Delhi to sitcom celebrity.

Simon Helberg

Known as Howard Wolowitz in the hit CBS sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, Simon Helberg, an American actor, comedian and musician, earns a whopping One Million dollars ($1 M) per episode before he agreed to a pay cut to Nine Hundred Thousand dollars ($900,000) per episode in favour of their other co-hosts much deserved increase in pay. His TV credits in the sitcom, not only brought him to Forbes’ 2018 third highest-paid TV actor and increasing his net worth to an estimate of Twent Three Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($23.5 M) more, but also winning the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Mayim Bialik

Mayin Bialik, is an American actress, author and neuro scientist, a perfect fit for a TV credit in the Twelve-year running CBS sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, as Amy Farrah Fowler-a neurobiologist in the show. And for her role in the show, she has been nominated many times a for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and finally won the Critics’Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015 and 2016. Since other cast members willingly agreed to the cut, she has earn an impressive jump to Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($500,000) per episode.

Melissa Rauch

Known as Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, who’s TV show credit started as Penny’s co-worker in The Cheesecake Factory, to dating and becoming fiancée of Howard Wolowitz in season 3 through 4 and married to Howard in season 5 of the Twelve-year running and recently concluded CBS sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, Melissa Rauch earned herself a Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($500,000) per episode since the sweeping increase in her pay after her other co-stars had willingly agreed to the cut in their pay check. In 2013, she also has garnered a nomination for the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role and performance in the show.