List of TV Top Earners from Witherspoon to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

The new entry of Amazon and Apple looking to compete with deep-pocketed adversaries such as Netflix, AT&T and Disney, top-tier salaries in TV is growing .

 Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston will each be paid $1.1 million per episode for their upcoming untitled Apple dramedy. Javier Bardem will also make $1.2 million per episode on Amazon and Amblin TV’s untitled miniseries about 16th-century explorer Hernán Cortés.

 Julia Roberts will make $600,000 per episode for Amazon’s “Homecoming.” According to Variety magazine, actors salaries don’t represent the totality of what a star can earn on a show.

 Aniston, Witherspoon, Bardem and Roberts are all listed as an executive producer on their respective projects, and each will command an additional fee for that service. Rel Howery will make $75,000 per episode to star in Fox’s “Rel,” but that’s in addition to his compensation as an exec producer and co-creator. 

On the forthcoming third season of “Stranger Things,” 14-year-old Millie Bobby Brown will draw more than just the $350,000 per episode that Netflix is set to pay her as an actor; she’s set to collect additional fees (though without a producer credit).