You thought YOU were overworked and underpaid.  Julie Kavner and Yeardley Smith, the voices of Bart and Lisa on “The Simpsons”, only make $400,000 …. per episode.   So stop your whining, things are tough all over.

Dramas per EPISODE!

• $550,000 – Kiefer Sutherland “24”
• $400,000 – Hugh Laurie “House”
• $400,000 – Mariska Hargitay “Law and Order: SUV”
• $400,000 – Christopher Meloni “Law and Order: SUV”
• $390,000 – Marg Helgenberger “CSI”
• $375,000 – David Caruso “CSI: Miami”
• $350,000 – Laurence Fishburne “CSI”
• $325,000 – Mark Harmon “NCIS”
• $275,000 – Ellen Pompeo “Grey’s Anatomy”
• $250,000 – Tim Roth “Lie to Me”
• $250,000 – Kate Walsh “Private Practice”
• $250,000 – Patrick Dempsey “Grey’s Anatomy”
• $250,000 – Simon Baker “The Mentalist”
• $250,000 – Calista Flockhart “Brothers and Sisters”
• $225,000 – Patricia Arquette “Medium”
• $175,000 – Tom Welling “Smallville”
• $150,000 – Jennifer Love Hewitt “Ghost Wisperer”
• $150,000 – Sally Field “Brothers and Sisters”
• $150,000 – Chris O’Donnell “NCIS: Los Angeles”
• $150,000 – LL Cool J “NCIS:
• $125,000 – Peter Krause “Parenthood”
• $50,000 – Chace Crawford “Gossip Girl”
• $50,000 – Blake Lively “Gossip Girl”

Comedy – Per Episode

• $875,000 – Charlie Sheen “Two and A Half Men” (figure includes ownership stake in the series)
• $400,000 – Felicity Huffman “Desperate Housewives”
• $400,000 – Marcis Cross “Desperate Housewives”
• $400,000 – Teri Hatcher “Desperate Housewives”
• $400,000 – Eva Longoria Parker “Desperate Housewives”
• $400,000 – Dan Castellaneta “The Simpsons”
• $400,000 – Yeardley Smith “The Simpsons”
• $400,000 – Julie Kavner “The Simpsons”
• $400,000 – Nancy Cartwright “The Simpsons”
• $350,000 – Zach Braff “Scrubs”
• $300,000 – Tina Fey “30 Rock”
• $300,000 – Alec Baldwin “30 Rock”
• $275,000 – Julia Louis-Drefus “Old Christine”
• $200,000 – Patricia Heaton “The Middle”
• $175,000 – Kelsey Grammer “Hawk”
• $150,000 – Neil Patrick Harris “How I Met Your Mother”
• $150,000 – Jay Mohr “Gary Unmarried”
• $125,000 – Jenna Elfman “Accidentally on Purpose”
• $100,000 – Courteney Cox “Cougar Town”
• $50,000 – Joel McHale “Community”
• $7,500 – Starting salary for player on “Saturday Night Live”

Cable – Per Episode

• $275,000 – Kyra Sedgwick “The Closer”
• $250,000 – Denis Leary “Rescue Me”
• $200,000 – Glenn Close “Damages”
• $175,000 – Julian McMahon “Nip/Tuck”
• $150,000 – Holly Hunter “Saving Grace”
• $135,000 – Jeffrey Donovan “Burn Notice”
• $75,000 – Thomas Jane “Hung”
• $75,000 – Jon Hamm “Mad Men”

Reality

• $15 million per year – Ryan Seacrest
• $150,000 per episode – Jeff Probst
• $150,000 per episode – Jon and Kate

Late Night – Per Year

• $32 million – David Letterman
• $30 million – Jay Leno
• $14 million – Conan O’Brien
• $14 million – Jon Stewart
• $6 million – Jimmy Kimmel

News – Per Year

• $15 million – Katie Couric CBS
• $13 million – Matt Lauer “NBC”
• $12 million – Diane Sawyer “ABC”
• $10 million – Meredith Vieira “NBC”
• $10 million – Bill O’Reilly “Fox News Channel”
• $7.5 million – Keith Olbermann “MSNBC”
• $7 million – Larry King “CNN”
• $5 million – Anderson Cooper “CNN”
• $3 million – Wolf Blitzer “CNN”
• $3 million – Chris Matthews “MSNBC”
• $2 million – Glenn Beck “Fox News Channel”