{"id":2019359,"date":"2025-09-13T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2019359"},"modified":"2025-09-13T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:43:09","slug":"jon-cryer-reveals-shocking-pay-discrepancy-between-him-charlie-sheen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jon-cryer-reveals-shocking-pay-discrepancy-between-him-charlie-sheen\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Cryer Reveals Shocking Pay Discrepancy Between Him &#038; Charlie Sheen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/two-and-a-half-men\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Two and a Half Men;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Two and a Half Men<\/a><\/em> star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/charlie-sheen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Charlie Sheen;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Charlie Sheen<\/a> got even more than two and a half times what costar <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/jon-cryer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jon Cryer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jon Cryer<\/a> got for the hit <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/network\/cbs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CBS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CBS<\/a> sitcom. In fact, Cryer says his salary was just a third of Sheen\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cryer discusses the pay discrepancy in the new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/network\/netflix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Netflix;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Netflix<\/a> documentary <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/aka-charlie-sheen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:aka Charlie Sheen;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">aka Charlie Sheen<\/a><\/em>, as he recounts his costar\u2019s contentious time on <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe\u2019s in the midst of falling apart in every way that I can imagine, and he\u2019s renegotiating his contract for another year of a show that I\u2019m supposed to be on, too,\u201d Cryer says in the doc, per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/jon-cryer-paid-third-charlie-sheen-two-and-a-half-men-1236530651\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Deadline;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Deadline<\/a>. \u201cThe dictator of North Korea was a guy named Kim Jong Il. He acted crazy all the time and thus got enormous amounts of aid from countries who were so scared of him that they would shovel money at him. Well, that\u2019s what happened here. [Sheen\u2019s] negotiations went off the charts because his life was falling apart. Me, whose life was pretty good at that time, I got a third of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cryer also revealed that CBS \u201cpre-sold a couple extra seasons of the show,\u201d so the network felt the need to \u201cspend this astonishing amount of money on Charlie.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Jon Cryer as Alan Harper and Charlie Sheen as Charlie Harper on &#8216;Two and a Half Men&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Greg Gayne\/CBS\/Courtesy: Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Because of that \u201castonishing\u201d salary for Sheen, Cryer was still making good money, even though he was earning two-thirds less. <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/clareoconnor\/2011\/05\/18\/how-charlie-sheen-made-more-money-this-year-than-ever-before\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Forbes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Forbes<\/a><\/em> reports that Sheen renegotiated his <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em>\u00a0contract in 2010, shortly <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/989397\/what-happened-to-charlie-sheen-two-and-a-half-men-exit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the 2011 substance-abuse struggle that ended his time on the sitcom;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the 2011 substance-abuse struggle that ended his time on the sitcom<\/a>. And he was earning about $1.3 million per episode in upfront, plus approximately $600,000 in back-end syndication fees, totaling around $1.9 million for every 22-minute installment. And Cryer was earning about $620,000 per episode as of 2013, according to <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/two-a-men-jon-cryer-449110\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Hollywood Reporter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em> .<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/989397\/what-happened-to-charlie-sheen-two-and-a-half-men-exit\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"What Happened to Charlie Sheen on \u2018Two and a Half Men\u2019: A Look Back 10 Years Later\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/cZQTsmZEpxQJAbOp3CqXPg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUzOTtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/tv_insider_639\/b2cc7c6fb850a4b20a824a78945ad0b7\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>What Happened to Charlie Sheen on \u2018Two and a Half Men\u2019: A Look Back 10 Years Later<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Related<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/989397\/what-happened-to-charlie-sheen-two-and-a-half-men-exit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:What Happened to Charlie Sheen on \u2018Two and a Half Men\u2019: A Look Back 10 Years Later;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">What Happened to Charlie Sheen on \u2018Two and a Half Men\u2019: A Look Back 10 Years Later<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While they were still costarring on the show, Sheen played hedonistic bachelor Charlie Harper, while Cryer played brother Alan Harper, who moves himself and his son, Jake (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/angus-t-jones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Angus T. Jones;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Angus T. Jones<\/a>), in with Charlie following his divorce. Following Sheen\u2019s exit in Season 8, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ashton-kutcher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ashton Kutcher;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ashton Kutcher<\/a> joined the cast and played billionaire Walden Schmidt, Alan\u2019s new roommate, for the last four seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After seeing Cryer\u2019s interview in <em>aka Charlie Sheen<\/em>, Sheen <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/charlie-sheen-makes-plea-jon-140818847.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:expressed interest in reconnecting with his onscreen brother;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">expressed interest in reconnecting with his onscreen brother<\/a>. But Cryer said on <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/the-view\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The View;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The View<\/a><\/em> last year he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1122044\/jon-cryer-two-and-a-half-men-reboot-charlie-sheen-comments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wouldn\u2019t want to join Sheen in a Two and a Half Men reboot;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">wouldn\u2019t want to join Sheen in a <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em> reboot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI love him, I wish him the best, I hope he should live in good health for the rest of his life, but I don\u2019t know if I want to get in business with him for any length of time,\u201d Cryer said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the latest entertainment news on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TV Insider;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen got even more than two and a half times what costar Jon Cryer got for the hit CBS sitcom. In fact, Cryer says his salary was just a third of Sheen\u2019s. Cryer discusses the pay discrepancy in the new Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, as he recounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2019360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[362591,315557,345890,345571],"class_list":["post-2019359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-charlie-harper","tag-charlie-sheen","tag-jon-cryer","tag-two-and-a-half-men"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jon-Cryer-Reveals-Shocking-Pay-Discrepancy-Between-Him-Charlie.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}