What Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, Amy Duggar King, and More Have Disclosed About Their Incomes

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban Split After 19 Years

While there are numerous Hollywood divorce stories that are told on a daily basis, the news about the separation of Kidman and Urban after 19 years still left the fans in disbelief.
According to the documents filed in the county court of Nashville by “The Hours” star on Sept. 30, the two can no longer live together “without fighting,” thus were separated due to “irreconcilable differences”.
The couple has been mutually separated since early summer, as E! News has been told. The court documents reveal that they signed a marriage dissolution agreement a few weeks before the divorce filing—distributing the property and outlining a parenting plan for daughters Sunday, 17, and Faith, 15—with Kidman signing on Sept. 6 and Urban on Aug. 29.

What the Documents Reveal About Money — And Other Stars’ Pay Talks

Put together, the parenting plan sheds light on the ex-spouses’ financial situation as well. Revealed by E! News documents, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are each stated to have a gross monthly income of “more than $100,000”. Kidman and Urban will not be paying child support to each other, and it is mentioned in their separation agreement that “no party shall pay any money and/or in any form of alimony or spousal support to the other.”
Those celebs aren’t the only ones to have their fortunes made news pieces. A short while ago, Amy Duggar King made it known that she hadn’t been compensated for her 19 Kids and Counting and related shows appearances, where her uncle Jim Bob, aunt Michelle, and their kids were the cast, but only her family had been paid.

Amy Duggar King Refutes 19 Kids and Counting Payment

Amy Duggar King said that she was not paid for her appearance on 19 Kids and Counting and that her uncle Jim Bob Duggar misrepresented the show as a mission of faith rather than a job.
“He told all of us that 19 Kids and Counting was a ministry and that we were on the show just to shine a light in the darkness,” the 39-year-old recalled on the Oct. 1 The Viall Files episode. “Was there any compensation? Nothing. Zero.”
Amy also stated that she “signed a contract without knowing the details.” Regarding how much she says Jim Bob made from the show, she went on to say, “I really checked it out. I think it was over $6 million. Yeah. Ministry, right? … He’s bought people’s houses and lands of all kinds. He’s an investor and is very smart… He’s a businessman… But, ministry.”

Joe Giudice Says Early RHONJ Pay Was “Ridiculous”

Joe Giudice said that he and Teresa were paid “nearly nothing” for season 1 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. “We got paid nothing the first season,” he told Gia’s Casual Chaos podcast in August 2025. “I’m even going to say, it was like $25,000. It was ridiculous. But, whatever.”
Besides that, living in front of the camera was not cheap either. “I think the first year we did that big party in my great room,” the father of four reminisced. “I think that show cost me $150,000 the first year.”

Jenna Johnson

Winning the mirrorball trophy on Dancing With the Stars doesn’t come with any money, but “everyone who gets to the finale, you all get paid up until then,” Jenna Johnson—who won season 33 with Joey Graziadei—shared, adding, “and you do get a nice bonus.” “If you win,” she went on, “it’s not like you get a million dollars. You will just have a nice little trophy together.” Those who depart the show early are “guaranteed until a certain amount of weeks.” As per various reports, pro dancers usually take home $1,200 to $1,600 per episode, a low with a high of $100,000 for a season (estimated which ABC hasn’t verified); celebrities, on the other hand, start at $125,000 and get progressively increasing bonuses the longer they stay—semifinalists and finalists can get up to an additional $50,000.

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence was paid $25 million for Adam McKay’s ensemble satire Don’t Look Up-$5 million less than her co-star Leonardo DiCaprio’s $30 million.
“Look, Leo brings in more box office than I do,” she told Vanity Fair, acknowledging she was “very lucky and happy” with her deal but also pointing out how “very uncomfortable it is for women to ask for equal pay—and how the question is often dismissed without a clear answer.” Her viewpoint was created when the 2014 Sony email hack revealed that she was paid less than her male co-stars for 2013’s American Hustle which brought about an industry-wide response to the gender pay gap in Hollywood. In 2017, she told Channel 4 News that her irritation wasn’t about her salary: “I wasn’t mad that I got only that much for a movie. That’s absurd. I was angry at the unfairness and inequality.”

Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill was paid $60,000—“the lowest amount of money possible,” he said—for 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street, compared to Leonardo DiCaprio’s $10 million. Commenting on The Howard Stern Show in 2014, Hill said that he took the deal straight away for the sole reason of working with Scorsese: “I’d sell my house and give him all my money to work for [Scorsese]… This isn’t about the money. You should do things that matter to you.” The Moneyball actor, who later got his second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for portraying a bizarre, drug-addicted stockbroker, went on to say that studio comedies like 22 Jump Street are what keep him going financially—Scorsese movies are for the heart.

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey willingly took a small amount to feature in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 movie The Color Purple.
In an interview with Essence in 2023, the media mogul said, “The offer was just $35,000 for a role in this film, and it is $35,000 the best I ever earned.” “It was the turning point for me and also my greatest teacher,” she added.

Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez was the first Latina actress to make history with a $1 million deal for the portrayal of Selena Quintanilla in 1997’s Selena—a point that she went on to raise in her career as a breakout role and went on to become a blockbuster career, although Lopez herself has said she still picks projects for love of the craft rather than for money. “I was really young and clueless about the situation,” in 2019 she told Variety. “They offering me a million dollars was a great thing, I think everyone was doing a statement.” “I didn’t get a lot of money for the movie Hustlers. I did it for free and I produced it,” she commented in an interview with GQ in 2019. “I work with my own money, you know? Like Jenny From the Block—I do what I love.”

Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody is not at all the type of actor who gets involved in projects just to make some money, but he agreed to take a role for $250,000 playing a hungarian architect that had a hard time in America after the Second World War. With this performance, he got the nomination for the Best Actor at the Academy Awards for the second time. “I definitely need to do a studio movie now, I’ve really given everything away with this one,” he said to Variety, referring to the “barn that resembles a castle” he’s working on upstate New York.

Pete Davidson

When New York magazine asked him how he spent his money after joining Saturday Night Live at the age of 20 in 2014, Pete Davidson responded with a joke, “Do you guys know what they pay us?” “It is almost three thousand dollars per episode, so I suppose I bought my dinner,” he added.
It is interesting to note that the cast’s first-year salaries have been kept more or less proportional over the decades: According to reports, SNL season one ensemble—John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, and Chevy Chase—earned $750 per episode in 1975, which was equivalent to about $3,300 in 2014 (and approximately $4,428 in 2025), based on CPI inflation calculations.

Kenan Thompson

Kenan Thompson, who just finished his 22nd season at Saturday Night Live, is a very devoted and steady actor from the lineup of the show. Nevertheless, he wasn’t as effective as he is now. For his first professional job, he received very little pay.
“The first commercial they paid me for was $800,” Kenan Thompson said in Child Star, a 2024 documentary by Demi Lovato. “I was 12, so to me, that really could have been a million dollars.”

Lauren Graham

Even though Gilmore Girls is one of those shows that you just can’t get enough of watching again, it’s not that residuals are that big. Lauren Graham on Jimmy Kimmel Live in March 2025 said, “There really are no residuals from Netflix.” The mainstay of the series, who has been the lead for the original seven seasons and the revival, has implied, “I don’t get paid in money, but I definitely get paid in love and appreciation.”

Tommy Dorfman

During the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, Tommy Dorfman revealed details of her 13 Reasons Why salary to emphasize the streaming-era salary gap. “My total income for season 1 of 13 Reasons Why was $29,953.24 before the deduction of agency and management fees (20%) and taxes,” she said on Threads July 24, explaining that the amount was for eight episodes in six months. Besides that, she mentioned that she made very attractive promo, was the face of the show, took the plane from NYC to San Francisco for every episode, and was “kept for days without pay/working,” so she could barely qualify for insurance. However, “within the first 28 days of release, the show’s season 1 amassed a total of 476 million viewing hours,” Dorfman stated. “This is why we strike.”

Dax Shepard

While not explicitly referring to the cast or the figures, Dax Shepard mentioned to fellow Parenthood alumnus, Lauren Graham, on his podcast that he was ‘one of the lowest’ paid actors during the six seasons of the NBC drama but he was really not bothered by it.’
He went on to say that in all his previous jobs except Parenthood, he would make it his business to find out how much everyone were paid, either through frank discussions or by secret leveraging through agents. This time, he decided not to do it. He said that not knowing the salary… within his Parenthood ‘family’ helped him to have fun with the show even when he got clues about his wages.

George Clooney

“Writing the script I got paid a dollar,” George Clooney told the LA Times in 2005 referring to the money he made for his Good Night, and Good Luck project. “I had to sign my directing check and give my acting money to the studio. [Grant Heslov] and I each made one dollar for working on it.”
Once in a while, a passion project about the legendary Murrow taking on the establishment becomes a moneymaker for the actor. Clooney started his stage career as Murrow in a play adaptation, finishing his days in June 2025. The play made unprecedent box office for a nonmusical on Broadway, earning $3.3 million in a preview week (April 3 was the start date)–much more than a dollar.

Christian Bale

Christian Bale mentioned that his performance as Patrick Bateman in the film American Madman in 2000, for which he scared the audience, was made at “the absolute minimum they were legally allowed to pay me.” He went on to say that except for the director, the whole crew did not really want to work with him. He told GQ in 2022 that his paycheck was so small that the makeup artists used it for humor: Bale was taking home less money than the makeup artists were.

Jon Heder

In the year 2010, Jon Heder made it known that only $1,000 was what he was paid for Napoleon Dynamite which was his first paycheck. After the quirky flick scored big, he was given a share of the earnings. “They lined me up better after that,” he told the New Zealand Herald.

Djimon Hounsou

Djimon Hounsou speaks about his Hollywood career as one of “underpayment to the definite extent” although he has been part of highly praised movies like Amistad and Blood Diamond. “I’ve been in this industry and making films for over twenty years,” the actor from Benin told CNN’s Larry Madowo in January 2025. “And with that, we are talking about two Oscar nominations and many big blockbuster films and yet I am still having a hard time financially to make a living.”

Rebel Wilson

With her 2024 memoir Rebel Rising, Rebel Wilson recollects the time when she was paid $3,500 for Bridesmaids which she says was totally consumed by her SAG dues, thus leaving her “no money.” Nevertheless, the breakout was “everything.” Her career skyrocketed in no time: she points out the journey from a SAG minimum for 2012’s Pitch Perfect to receiving a payday of over eight figures by Pitch Perfect 3, thereby making a total of around $20 million from these films, Isn’t It Romantic, and The Hustle. She mentioned that even after paying taxes and the usual commissions/fees, she still “made what I consider to be a great amount of money.”

Ellen Pompeo

In 2017, Ellen Pompeo brokered a historic Grey’s Anatomy agreement—roughly $575,000 per episode, a seven-figure signing bonus, and reportedly some money made on the back end worth up to $7 million. “I’m 48 now, so I’ve finally reached the point where I’m fine with asking for what I’m worth,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, adding the necessity of the skill to be a show leader over 14 years. In her 2025 reflection, Pompeo said that she was the one who was paid the least out of the two despite being the main character. She did not hold his salary against him but on Call Her Daddy, she said, “Since I was the show’s namesake, I was the one who deserved the same and it was more difficult to get… I was bitter that they didn’t value me as much as they valued him—and they never will.”

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis shared the information that she was paid $2,000 per week and that her entire earnings were $8,000 for her first movie Halloween in 1978. “Nobody got paid anything,” she told Rotten Tomatoes in 2018. In the same vein, John Carpenter’s collaborator Nick Castle was given $25 a day to wear the most part of Michael Myers’ mask, which was quite a good deal for a USC film school friend who mainly wanted on‑set experience. “That was a lot at the time!” he told Vanity Fair, adding that he only expected to watch. The face you see in the very short unmasking scene is Anthony Moran, and editor Tommy Lee Wallace also covered the mask for some segments.

Taraji P. Henson

Taraji P. Henson was Oscar-nominated for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button movie, but she claims that she was underpaid. She was given the task to turn down her offer of $500,000, and hence she was able to make $150,000 to collaborate with the film. On Ladies First With Laura Brown in 2021, she stated, “I’m not saying that Cate and Brad shouldn’t have gotten the money that they were worth but I was also contributing something to the table.” She shared the memory of being ” gutted ” when the offer was $100,000 at the very beginning, and “impaired my integrity” with $150,000.
Henson figured that after deductions for taxes and team commissions, she was left with around $40,000 of the money to use as she pleased.

Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett speaking of the most significant earning of her career said that it was not going to be the case that her playing Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings was the largest one, although the three movies made $2.9 billion in total. On WWHL, when Andy Cohen speculated in August 2024 that her biggest paycheck came from LOTR, she answered with a smile: “Do you really think so? No. Nobody got paid for that movie… I mean, I got basically free sandwiches, and I kept my ears.”

Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom admits that he never got rich out of Middle-earth. The Hollywood star explained on The Howard Stern Show in 2023, that he received $175,000 for all three movies of The Lord of the Rings series. Well, at least we know he kept the pointy ears.