It's been more than a decade since Two and a Half Men officially came to an end in February 2015, but Jon Cryer is still still raking in the big bucks!
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“It still is an engine that’s producing an astonishing amount of money,” he toldPage Sixin June 2026. "It’s mostly because over the course of the years, I was able to get some percentage of the show.”
"But it’s not [from] residuals as much,” he said, adding, “Although, there is still, there are still residual payments that are substantial."
Cryer starred in a whopping 12 seasons of the hit CBS show from 2003 to 2015, first alongside Charlie Sheen and Angus T. Jones, and later withAshton Kutcher stepping in after Sheen was dismissed in 2011 amid personal tumult.
It was actually after Sheen left that Cryer was able to dramatically increase his salary to $620,000 an episode. In the 2025 Netflix doc aka Charlie Sheen, Cryer said he was making at least two-thirds less than his controversial costar, who was raking in nearly $2 million per episode.
Cryer found it "really interesting" that the "tumultuousness" of Sheen's personal life only gave him more power when it came to negotiating his rate. "I still find it very notable, because, you know, the deal he negotiated was the single largest pay for an actor in broadcast television history, I believe, and it was because his life was a mess.”
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While Cryer joked about "driving a car off a cliff" in hopes of increasing his own salary, he ultimately decided that “the perks of having your life a mess vastly outweigh the monetary advantages.”
The actor knows that it's "astonishing good luck" to have been in such a big hit show that's still benefiting him to this day, and that "not having to worry about making your rent every month... transforms the way [he] deals with things on a daily basis."
"I really look for work that makes me joyful," he explained. "I am daily aware of how lucky I am to be able to do that.”
While Cryer had admitted that his relationship with Sheen is "complicated" to this day, the Platoon actor only had good things to say about his old costar. “I mean, we don’t really hang out or talk, but I love that he showed up for the doc," Sheen said in a podcast interview with his dad Martin Sheen in 2025. “I thought that was super generous."
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