TV’s Biggest Salaries: Zendaya, Nicolas Cage, Selena Gomez and More Stars Earning Huge Paychecks

TV’s Biggest Salaries: Zendaya, Nicolas Cage, Selena Gomez and More Stars Earning Huge Paychecks hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 12, 2026 8:00am PT TV’s Biggest Salaries: Zendaya, Nicolas Cage, Selena Gomez and More Stars Earning Huge Paychecks By Michael Schneider Peak TV may be over, but peak TV salaries haven’t gone away. The streaming revolution changed the game when it came to recruiting A-listers to appear in topline series on the small screen, and the biggest stars are still nabbing impressive paychecks.

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The downturn in original series production has tightened up the marketplace overall. But with the right project arriving at the right moment, marquee names are still making bank in TV.

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The film business, on the other hand, has been in a state of limbo for most of this year as the Paramount-Warner Bros. The recent shake-up of Netflix’s content leadership has also put a crimp in dealmaking, at least temporarily, even as the film sector celebrates the buoyancy of the box office this year.

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And popular faces who can immediately attract a fan base are also fetching top coin: Jennifer Garner, for example, crossed the $1 million threshold for Peacock’s “The Five-Star Weekend.” “The need for stars that can anchor these television shows is bigger than it’s ever been,” says one talent agent. “It used to be unheard of that someone would get $2 million an episode.” Stars who have perhaps aged out of marquee film roles have particularly benefited from the new marketplace.

They’ve found a lucrative home in streaming, where their draw remains valuable. And as opposed to the 22-episode TV season required in the broadcast network days, they’re attracted to the less taxing commitment that comes with a 6-, 8- or 10-episode order.

“Every star now is looking at how to anchor a series,” says an insider. 2 on the call sheet, it’s really never been better financially.” Even as the conventional wisdom remains that Hollywood is struggling and the job market is challenged, agents in the TV talent field are perhaps the most optimistic folks in the industry right now.

“The TV actor salary game is still a really good business,” says one agent. “There’s still a lot of money to be made as an actor on television.

Certainly for the starriest names, those people are still getting toward the upper limit of anything that anyone’s ever made on television.” Says another rep: “It definitely feels like the opportunities are there. I mean, it’s not 2016 to 2019, when everyone was just blasting a fire hose of cash into the community, which was totally unsustainable.

Comparing anything to that time, when the streamers were out there spending like drunken sailors, is not a fair comp.” Of course, this is mo

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