{"id":684395,"date":"2026-05-21T03:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684395\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T03:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:51:27","slug":"ray-romanos-jaw-dropping-residuals-from-everybody-loves-raymond-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684395\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Romano’s jaw-dropping residuals from Everybody Loves Raymond revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\ufeffEverybody Loves Raymond<\/a> continues to be a major win for its lead star Ray Romano,<\/a> after it was revealed he makes an eye-watering $25 million per year in residuals.<\/p>\n

Although the hit show ended 20 years ago, Variety<\/a> and Forbes reported in 2012 the cash continued to flow \u2013 largely due to the show’s syndication deals.<\/p>\n

Two decades on, Romano, 68, remains part of an elite list of actors still raking in five figures annually, long after their shows went off the air.<\/p>\n

\"<B>NominatedEverybody Loves Raymond star Ray Romano’s eye-watering residual payments have been revealed. <\/p>\n

Residuals, like royalties, are a passive form of income actors receive when their shows are re-run on television networks.<\/p>\n

According to media labour union SAG-AFTRA’s website<\/a>, they are defined as compensation paid to performers “for use of a theatrical motion picture or television program beyond the use covered by initial compensation.”<\/p>\n

Syndication deals, on the other hand, \ufeffinvolve the licensing of a TV show to multiple independent stations, cable networks or streaming platforms beyond its original network.<\/p>\n

“For TV work, residuals begin once a show starts re-airing or is released to video\/DVD, pay television, broadcast TV, basic cable, or new media,” SAG-AFTRA stated.<\/p>\n

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\"RayRomano starred on the hit sitcom for all nine of its seasons. (CBS)<\/p>\n

At the time of the report, Vanity Fair ranked Romano as one of TV’s highest-paid actors despite Everybody Loves Raymond having ended seven years prior.<\/p>\n

The other top-earning male actors on their list included Ashton Kutcher, Tim Allen, Patrick Dempsey, Hugh Laurie and Mark Harmon, all of whom were starring in popular shows at the time.<\/p>\n

According to Celebrity Net Worth<\/a>, Romano remains worth a whopping $200 million as of 2026.<\/p>\n

The comic actor \ufeffportrayed sportswriter Ray Barone across all nine seasons of the long-running CBS sitcom, joined by co-stars Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Patricia Heaton and Peter Boyle.<\/p>\n

He even made history during the show’s final season, setting the Guinness World Record for highest-paid actor in television per episode at $AU2.7 million.<\/p>\n

This proved a contentious point amongst the cast when it came to light, with the remainder of the show’s core cast addressing the pay gap and negotiating raises in the aftermath.<\/p>\n

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Romano is not the only TV star to be cashing in on residuals, with Friends star Lisa Kudrow recently revealing the eye-watering sum she still receives annually in an interview with The Times of London.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Kudrow, she and her fellow co-stars still make around $27 million per year over 20 years on from the hit show’s final season.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ufeffEverybody Loves Raymond continues to be a major win for its lead star Ray Romano, after it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-684395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}