Forbes Magazine has released its list of the highest paid television actresses and a few of our favorites comprise the top 10, with 30 Rock funny lady and scribe topping the list at a cool $13 million a year along with Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria, who appears to have hammered out a better contract than her Housewives' costars. So much for the golden age of Friends when the cast stuck together to negotiate their contracts.
Longoria pulls in $13 mill a year while her costar Marcia Cross makes $10 million and Felicity Huffman and Teri Hatcher both make $9 million.
Also pulling in a hefty salary is Mariska Hargitay, who’s been one of the anchors of Law & Order: SVU since its inception. She joins Cross at the $10 mill salary along with CSI’s Marg Helgenberger.
Former friend and Cougar Town executive producer Courteney Cox is still doing pretty well for herself at $7 million per year.
Grey’s Anatomy’s narrator Ellen Pompeo also makes $7 million, and while she’s great in the role we would have loved to see Sara Ramirez and Jessica Capshaw in that slot just for playing such an adorable lesbian couple.
Rounding out the top ten is The Good Wife star and recent Emmy winner Julianna Margulies at $6 million.
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