Here S How Jussie Smollett S Empire Salary Compares To Those Of Other Tv Stars

Norman Reedus, AMC’s The Walking Dead: $1 Million Per Episode Elizabeth Moss, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale: $1 Million Per Episode Nicole Kidman, HBO’s Big Little Lies: $1 Million Per Episode Jim Parsons, CBS’ The Big Bang Theory: $1 Million Per Episode Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, HBO’s Ballers: $650,000 Per Episode Ellen Pompeo, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy: $575,000 Per Episode Sean Penn, Hulu’s The First: $500,000 Per Episode Kit Harington, HBO’s Game of Thrones: $500,000 Per Episode John Goodman, ABC’s The Conners: $375,000 Per Episode Millie Bobby Brown, Netflix’s Stranger Things: $350,000 Per Episode Sterling K. Brown, NBC’s This Is Us: $250,000 Per Episode  Evan Rachel Wood, HBO’s Westworld: $250,000 Per Episode It might also make sense to compare Smollett’s Empire salary to that of his co-stars on that show. According to one source, the cast is structured into three salary tiers, with top-billed stars Terence Howard and Taraji P. Henson starting out earning somewhere between $110,000 and $120,000 an episode at the beginning, getting bumped to somewhere between $225,000 and $250,000 in 2016. Smollett, on the other hand, is reported to have started out with a salary of $40,000-$50,000 per episode compared to what he made on the show’s most recent season.