11. How I Met Your Mother
On The Air For: 9 seasons
Est. Star’s Salary: $5 million/season (Josh Radnor)*
Created by friends Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, loosely based on their own lives, How I Met Your Mother became a television phenomenon, with viewers tuning in week after week to see if they would pick up on any clues as to who the “mother” would be.
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By the end of the show’s nine-season run, Josh Radnor was making $225,000 per episode, which might not seem like it would put him towards the top of the list in terms of highest-paid actors, but considering seasons were long he was netting $5 million per season.