Kevin Costner Is the Highest Paid TV Actor

Yellowstone’s Kevin Costner ranks in at No.1 as the highest paid star on tv, raking in $1.3 million PER EPISODE!

 

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Kevin not only stars in the series, but he serves as an executive producer.  The actor earned $500,000 per episode for its first season and because of its growing audience, Kevin’s salary increased each season, bringing him to $1.3M for its fifth season.  Yellowstone first premiered in 2018 and according to Daily Mail, “Each season of the drama has outperformed the last with the audience for season 4 four times the size of the one that tuned in for the first series.”

 

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Kevin Costner isn’t the only tv actor who gets paid the big bucks, so does Harrison Ford, Will Ferrell, and Sylvester Stallone.

 

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Below is a list of actors who get paid $1 million per episode:

1.  Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone” ($1.3 million)

2. Mahershala Ali on “The Pilot” ($1.3 million)

3. Elisabeth Moss on “The Shining Girls” ($1.1 million)

4. Michael Keaton on “Dopesick”

5. Harrison Ford on “1923”

6. Helen Mirren on “1923”

7. Will Ferrell on “The Shrink Next Door”

8. Paul Rudd on “The Shrink Next Door”

9. Sylvester Stallone on “Tulsa King”

10. Jason Sudeikis on “Ted Lasso”