The Big Bang Theory cast will be just fine when it ends in 2019 (Picture: CBS)

The Big Bang Theory cast have been raking it in for the past 12 years as stars of the world’s leading sitcom, and for some of them their fortune isn’t going to slow down even the slightest bit when the final episode airs in 2019.

Sheldon Cooper star Jim Parsons has topped the world’s leading paid actors in the world year on year, but how much is he making each episode of the final season? Warning: This might make you feel a little bit queasy.

In 2017, the leading ensemble including Parsons, Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki all voluntarily slashed their own salaries to bump up the pay packet for series regulars Mayim Bialik and Melissa Raunch.



Kunal Nayyar, Simon Helberg, Cuoco, Galecki and Parsons are currently the highest earners from The Big Bang Theory, each taking $900,000 (£706,400) per instalment.


Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco were among The Big Bang Theory cast to slash their own salaries to bump up their co-stars’ (Picture: CBS)

With their pay rises, Bialik and Raunch are now making enough to buy a London flat every single episode, banking $500,000 (£392,000) each. Not too shabby.

However, the real eye-watering news here is that the leading ensemble could still make around $10 million a year from reruns. Weeping yet? Us too.

Parsons, Galecki and Cuoco each own shares worth one percent of The Big Bang Theory’s total earnings for Warner Bros. year-on-year, which is thought to be around $1 billion (£784,600,000).

So if you had any concerns for our TBBT cast next year, just know they’re probably going to be alright.

Although, creator Chuck Lorre recently admitted filming the show’s final season has been tinged with ‘melancholy’ throughout.

‘It’s been a 12-year project that has been really just a joy. It’s going to be very, very sad to let it go,’ he told Deadline.

The Big Bang Theory returns to CBS on January 3 in the US and E4 here in the UK.

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