{"id":2854,"date":"2026-05-20T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/ray-romanos-shocking-residuals-from-everybody-loves-raymond-revealed\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:18:48","slug":"ray-romanos-shocking-residuals-from-everybody-loves-raymond-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/ray-romanos-shocking-residuals-from-everybody-loves-raymond-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Romano&#8217;s shocking residuals from &#8216;Everybody Loves Raymond&#8217; revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/128304477-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ray Romano makes $18 million a year in residuals from his beloved show \u201cEverybody Loves Raymond,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2012\/10\/highest-paid-television-actors-shocking-revelations?srsltid=AfmBOoqTl6L4jALlv8YoY2RA1RbiBXa8keH1fNbmP5INWu-7Rk0BoSqk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanity Fair<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/pictures\/fdef45hhij\/ray-romano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both outlets reported the staggering amount in 2012, seven years after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/11\/entertainment\/everybody-loves-raymond-cast-reunites-for-30th-anniversary-cbs-special\/\">the sitcom<\/a> ended.<\/p>\n<p>Vanity Fair noted that Romano\u2019s earnings were coming from syndication deals.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Ray Romano makes $18 million a year in residuals from \u201cEverybody Loves Raymond,\u201d Vanity Fair reported in 2012. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CBS\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Romano (seen above in the sitcom) makes the staggering amount from syndication deals. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CBS\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>At the time, Vanity Fair ranked Romano as one of TV\u2019s highest-paid actors despite \u201cEverybody Loves Raymond\u201d no longer being on the air. <\/p>\n<p>The other male actors on the list included Ashton Kutcher, Tim Allen, Patrick Dempsey, Hugh Laurie and Mark Harmon, who were all starring in popular shows at that point.<\/p>\n<p>Romano currently is worth $200 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celebritynetworth.com\/richest-celebrities\/richest-comedians\/ray-romano-net-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebrity Net Worth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old actor played sportswriter Ray Barone on all nine seasons of the CBS sitcom, starring alongside Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts and Peter Doyle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Vanity Fair also reported in 2012 that Romano (seen above on the show) was one of the highest-paid actors on TV. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CBS\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Romano (seen above with Patricia Heaton) starred in the series for nine seasons from 1996 to 2005. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CBS\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the final season of the show, Romano set a Guinness World Record as the highest-paid TV actor per episode, pulling in nearly $2 million for each episode. <\/p>\n<p>Romano\u2019s salary sparked behind-the-scenes drama as Garrett led the rest of the cast to negotiate raises once they learned Romano was making so much more money than them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was inevitable,\u201d Romano <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2003\/09\/05\/romano-were-a-happy-family-raymond-cast-gets-together-for-barbecue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Daily News<\/a> in 2003. \u201cWhen my salary came out in the papers, I knew stuff would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Emmy winner admitted that he would\u2019ve done \u201cthe same thing\u201d as his co-stars, who got their pay raises for the final season.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>For the final season of the show, Romano (pictured above with the rest of the cast) made history as the highest-paid TV actor per episode, making $2 million per episode. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CBS\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Romano\u2019s co-stars (pictured with him above) negotiated raises after learning about his massive salary. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CBS\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t hold anything against anyone, not the cast or CBS. I\u2019m loyal to both of them,\u201d Romano said. \u201cI wanted it to get resolved, but I knew it had to play its course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a0\u201cEverybody Loves Raymond\u201d\u00a0cast, including Romano, Garrett and Heaton,<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/11\/entertainment\/everybody-loves-raymond-cast-reunites-for-30th-anniversary-cbs-special\/\"> reunited in November <\/a>for the show\u2019s 30th anniversary special, which honored late stars Roberts and Boyle.<\/p>\n<p>A few months earlier, Romano exclusively told The Post at another 30th anniversary event for the show that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/23\/entertainment\/ray-romano-patricia-heaton-on-everybody-loves-raymond-reboot-rumors\/\">there won\u2019t be a reboot.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Romano (seen above with the cast of the show) previously said he didn\u2019t blame his co-stars for fighting for their pay raises. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CBS\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Last year, Romano (seen above at Cinemacon 2026) told The Post there won\u2019t be a reboot of \u201cEverybody Loves Raymond.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Disney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Romano said that since Roberts and Boyle are both dead, a revival of the series wouldn\u2019t make sense. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all heartbroken. They\u2019re a big part of the show, the dynamic,\u201d he told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Romano added, \u201cWithout them, I don\u2019t know what the dynamic is. We love the show too much, we respect it too much to even try to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/20\/entertainment\/ray-romanos-shocking-residuals-from-everybody-loves-raymond-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Romano makes $18 million a year in residuals from his beloved show \u201cEverybody Loves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/128304477-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}