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Salaries for the world's highest paid film actors currently range from $20–30 million, but an actor can earn substantially more by deferring all or part of their salary against a percentage of the film's gross, known within the industry as a "profit participation" deal. Since not all salaries are made public, this is a non-definitive list of actors who have received $30 million or more as compensation for their services. The figures are given at their nominal value, since earnings from profit based deals are accumulated over many years, making it unfeasible to adjust for inflation.

Highest-earning actors in films
Actor Film Year Salary Total income Ref
Keanu Reeves The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions 		2003 $30,000,000 $156,000,000 [1]
Bruce Willis The Sixth Sense 1999 $14,000,000 $100,000,000 [1]
Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible 2 2000 $100,000,000 [1]
Tom Cruise War of the Worlds 2005 $100,000,000 [1]
Will Smith Men in Black 3 2012 $100,000,000 [2]
Sandra Bullock Gravity 2013 $20,000,000 $70,000,000+ [3]
Tom Hanks Forrest Gump 1994 $70,000,000 [1]
Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible 1996 $70,000,000 [1]
Harrison Ford Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008 $65,000,000 [4]
Jack Nicholson Batman 1989 $6,000,000 $60,000,000 [1][5]
Leonardo DiCaprio Inception 2010 $59,000,000 [6]
Johnny Depp Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011 $35,000,000 $55,000,000 [6][7]
Robert Downey, Jr. The Avengers 2012 $50,000,000 [8]
Cameron Diaz Bad Teacher 2011 $42,000,000 [9]
Leonardo DiCaprio Titanic 1997 $40,000,000 [1]
Tom Hanks Saving Private Ryan 1998 $40,000,000 [1]
Johnny Depp Alice in Wonderland 2010 $40,000,000 [6]
Aamir Khan Dangal 2016 $37,000,000+ [nb 1][10][11]
Jim Carrey Yes Man 2008 $35,000,000 [12]
Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 2003 $29,250,000 $30,000,000+ [nb 2][1]
Mel Gibson Lethal Weapon 4 1998 $30,000,000 $30,000,000 [1]
Brad Pitt Ocean's Eleven 2001 $10,000,000 $30,000,000 [1]
  1. ^ ₹257 crore ($37–41 million at 2017 exchange rates).
  2. ^ Arnold Schwarzenegger received a $29,250,000 salary for Terminator 3 plus a 20% royalty on the worldwide box office gross over $380 million. The film ultimately had a global gross of $433 million.

References

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  2. ^ Masters, Kim (5 June 2013). "Will Smith's 'After Earth' Apocalypse: Who Loses Most". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  3. ^ Galloway, Stephen (26 February 2014). "Sandra Bullock to Make $70 Million (At Least) for 'Gravity' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  4. ^ Pomerantz, Dorothy (10 June 2009). "Hollywood's Top-Earning Actors". Forbes. Archived from the original on 6 September 2013.
  5. ^ Thompson, Peter A. (1997). Jack Nicholson: the life and times of an actor on the edge. Carol Publishing Group. p. 214. ISBN 9781559724203. By 1994, it had reportedly reached $60 million. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  6. ^ a b c Newcomb, Peter (March 2011). "Hollywood's Top 40". Vanity Fair. p. 2. Archived from the original on 5 July 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Sylt, Christian (22 July 2014). "Fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean Is Most Expensive Movie Ever With Costs Of $410 Million". Forbes. Retrieved 7 December 2014. One of the biggest costs of making On Stranger Tides was paying the production staff and actors with Mr Depp alone believed to have received $55 million for the movie.
  8. ^ Heath, Chris (April 2013). "Profile: Robert Downey Jr". GQ. p. 3. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  9. ^ Kilday, Gregg (20 June 2013). "Sequel to Cameron Diaz's 'Bad Teacher' in the Works". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  10. ^ Upadhyaya, Prakash (July 6, 2017). "Aamir Khan's remuneration for Dangal: This is the amount the actor takes home after China release". International Business Times. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  11. ^ "Dangal brings Rs 257 crore Chinese bonanza for Aamir Khan". Hindustan Times. July 7, 2017.
  12. ^ Schuker, Lauren E. (2 April 2009), "Hollywood Squeezes Stars' Pay in Slump", The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 16 June 2013
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