Jason English
The Number of the Day: $250,000
by Jason English - June 30, 2010 - 8:17 AM


Angus T. Jones, the “and a Half” of the CBS hit Two and a Half Men, makes $250,000 per episode.

[Source: New York Post. See previous Numbers of the Day here.]

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Comments (17)

  1. Well, that’s depressing for me. Now excuse me as I try to get through my day without crying.

    posted by Colin Perkins on 6-30-2010 at 8:23 am

  2. What happened to the new young man who was supposed to be doing Number of the Day?

    posted by Katie Rose on 6-30-2010 at 9:18 am

  3. We’ve got Will working on some very important things this week, including an article I’m predicting gets 75 comments (no pressure though). But he’ll be back in the Numbers game tomorrow and Friday.

    posted by Jason English on 6-30-2010 at 9:42 am

  4. A quarter of a million dollars an episode—that’s obscene!!

    posted by MRMAC on 6-30-2010 at 9:43 am

  5. You think that’s obscene? Imagine what Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer must be making.

    posted by Jay on 6-30-2010 at 9:49 am

  6. Yeah, but at least Sheen and Cryer are experienced professionals. Jones is just a kid, yet he makes more money in a year than all of my county’s drama teachers combined.

    One of these days this country will see that its priorities are in the wrong place. I just hope it’s not too late.

    posted by DYMongoose on 6-30-2010 at 11:12 am

  7. While it kills me that it would take me five years to make what the kid gets for one episode, the show makes an outstanding amount of money. To whom should that money be paid if not to the actors, even the pint-sized ones?

    posted by bryan on 6-30-2010 at 11:19 am

  8. Hi Katie – I’m still here!

    And Jason, I’m glad to see you’re getting everyone’s hopes up…

    posted by Will on 6-30-2010 at 11:33 am

  9. I always thought Charlie Sheen was the half-man.

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 6-30-2010 at 12:24 pm

  10. Let’s hope is parents aren’t blowing it all.

    posted by Amanda on 6-30-2010 at 12:40 pm

  11. There are laws now that protect child actors’ income from stupid/greedy parents.

    I’m a big fan of the show but I thought Jones was a much better actor when he was younger. Now it seems like he’s just phoning it in. To hear he’s getting a quarter of a mil per ep is depressing only because it doesn’t seem to me like he’s earning it. Sheen and Cryer are earning their $$$. That show is making the network and the studio a ton of money, so yeah, they should be spreading the wealth.

    And my God I love Berta!

    posted by Michelle on 6-30-2010 at 12:56 pm

  12. BERTA ROCKS! I hope she’s raking in a good paycheck. Hopefully more than the kid.

    posted by Kathy on 6-30-2010 at 1:37 pm

  13. The show is nothing without Berta!

    posted by Hyacinth on 6-30-2010 at 2:24 pm

  14. The question I’m asking is, “why is this show still on?”

    Though I’d also like to ask, “Can he really be called ‘half’ a man now?”

    posted by Sillstaw on 6-30-2010 at 3:10 pm

  15. There are laws that protect kids but isn’t it only 10% the parents have to set aside for them? Maybe I’m just making that up.

    Either way, that kid MAKES that show! Him and Berta should have a spinoff, lol :)

    posted by Anna on 7-1-2010 at 5:59 pm

  16. 15%. It’s in the article. They can’t touch it til they’re 18.

    posted by Anna on 7-1-2010 at 6:00 pm

  17. 21!

    posted by Anna on 7-1-2010 at 6:01 pm

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