--- title: Sofia Vergara Is the Highest-Paid Actress in Television description: Sofia Vergara tops the list of highest-paid actresses on the small screen for the fifth year in a row, thanks to her endorsement deals. canonical: https://time.com/4493851/sofia-vergara-highest-paid-tv-actress/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-14T20:16:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:38.612Z og:title: Sofia Vergara Is the Highest-Paid Actress in Television og:description: The 'Modern Family' star clocks in at nearly $43 million this year og:url: https://time.com/4493851/sofia-vergara-highest-paid-tv-actress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd77ae9d0a53b6729/6988a616ab6d77922d6ab399/sofia-vergar-highest-paid-woman-tv.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sofia Vergara Is the Highest-Paid Actress in Television twitter:description: The 'Modern Family' star clocks in at nearly $43 million this year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd77ae9d0a53b6729/6988a616ab6d77922d6ab399/sofia-vergar-highest-paid-woman-tv.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sofia Vergara Tops the List of the World's Highest-Paid TV Actresses for the Fifth Year in a Row > Sponsored content. 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Forbes has released their list of highest paid actresses and Jennifer Lawrence tops the list once again._  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 14, 2016 8:16 PM UTC  Sofia Vergara arrives at the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 28, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images) Sofia Vergara arrives at the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 28, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images) John Shearer—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 14, 2016 8:16 PM UTC [_Modern Family’s_](http://entertainment.time.com/2009/10/15/modern-family-watch-mothers-day/) [Sofia Vergara](http://time.com/3531603/sofia-vergara-interview-thyroid-cancer/) is the highest-paid actress in television for the fifth year in a row, clocking in at nearly $43 million in the past year before management fees and taxes, which is also the most that any tv actor, male or female has ever made. According to [_Forbes_](http://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2016/09/14/the-worlds-highest-paid-tv-actresses-2016-sofia-vergara-stays-the-queen-of-the-small-screen-with-43-million/#49e3a1a06a7f), her sizable income has experienced a 66% increase since last year — and it’s not for playing the vivacious Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on the small screen. Instead, the income bump comes via endorsement and licensing deals, among them a furniture line and a deal with _Head and Shoulders_. For actress Kaley Cuoco, who comes in second at a little more than half of what Vergara makes with a hot $24.5 million, her earnings come almost exclusively from her work on _The Big Bang Theory_. The actress currently holds one of the biggest tv salaries along with her _Big Bang_ castmates, each making nearly $1 million per episode filmed. Cuoco and Vergara’s rankings are also significant because they’re positive examples of what closing the [gender wage gap](http://time.com/money/4465918/womens-equality-day/) can look like. Both actresses make as much as their comparable male counterparts on their respective shows (for Vergara, Ty Burrell and Jesse Tyler Ferguson; for Cuoco, Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki), which some attribute to the fact that [ensemble casts will often negotiate salaries together](http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/business/friends-deal-will-pay-each-of-its-6-stars-22-million.html?%5Fr=0). Other actresses to make the top 15 highest-paid actresses in television include Priyanka Chopra of _Quantico_, _Veep’s_ Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, and _The Mindy Project’s_ Mindy Kaling. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4493851/sofia-vergara-highest-paid-tv-actress/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4493851/sofia-vergara-highest-paid-tv-actress/"},"headline":"Sofia Vergara Tops the List of the World's Highest-Paid TV Actresses for the Fifth Year in a Row","datePublished":"2016-09-14T20:16:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:38.612Z","description":"The 'Modern Family' star clocks in at nearly $43 million this year","url":"https://time.com/4493851/sofia-vergara-highest-paid-tv-actress/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television","Sofia Vergara"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd77ae9d0a53b6729/6988a616ab6d77922d6ab399/sofia-vergar-highest-paid-woman-tv.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd77ae9d0a53b6729/6988a616ab6d77922d6ab399/sofia-vergar-highest-paid-woman-tv.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals","caption":"2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals","creditText":"John Shearer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4493851/sofia-vergara-highest-paid-tv-actress/","name":"Sofia Vergara Tops the List of the World's Highest-Paid TV Actresses for the Fifth Year in a Row"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Highest Paid Actresses in Hollywood","description":"Forbes has released their list of highest paid actresses and Jennifer Lawrence tops the list once again.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ueANsumo/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-08-23T17:56:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ueANsumo.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4493851/sofia-vergara-highest-paid-tv-actress/","duration":"PT50S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4493851/sofia-vergara-highest-paid-tv-actress/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```