TVSquad

That's his salary as a police forensics guy, not as a killer.

That's just one of the many revelations in this article about TV character salaries. CareerBuilder.com figured out what each person would make in real-life. For example, Samantha from Samantha Who? makes around $145,000 a year as the VP of a real estate company.

Not sure about the numbers for Mad Men's Don Draper though. It says he would make $41,000, but I'm guessing that means if he was doing it today, not in the early 1960s (because that would be a massive amount of money then). But he's the Creative Director at an ad agency and got a raise, so I'm pretty sure he'd make more than that. Olive on Pushing Daisies would make around $15,000 or so as a waitress (though she'd probably make more if she worked at an upscale restaurant). Other people on the list include Christine from The New Adventures of Old Christine and Olivia Benson from Law and Order: SVU.

Characters not on the list that I'm curious about: Liz Lemon, Michael Scott, and anyone from Heroes, because they never seem to be actually working.

I'm talking about Betty Suarez, not the actress (America Ferrera) who plays her on the hit ABC show. Every year one of the financial sites figures out how much money various TV characters make a year. Last year we discovered that Homer Simpson makes $67,422 at the power plant. This year's list comes from CareerBuilder.com.

I'm not surprised to find out that Boston Legal's Denny Crane makes $210,000, but I was rather shocked that Cold Case's Lilly Rush only makes $44,000 a year. She solves cold cases, for pete's sake! Hopefully the benefits are good.

The list also has the salaries for Arthur Branch on Law and Order, Jim on According To Jim, Pam on The Office, and many others.

Update: Betty Suarez makes $37, 810 a year. Now you don't even have to click on the link and all the world is at peace again.

Doh! That's more than Horatio Caine makes!

Well, according to the AOL Salary Center. They have a list of the salaries of TV characters, calculated by the folks over at Salary.com, and that's Homer's salary. I've always wondered how someone like him can afford all the stuff he buys and his house.

Other salaries: Dr. Gregory House makes $191,011 a year, Michael Scott over at Dunder-Mifflin makes $89, 729 a year, and Executive Assitant Betty Suarez over at Mode magazine makes $49, 790. But the richest person on the list, at least this least (I'm sure Montgomery Burns would beat him) is Dr.Derek Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy. He makes over $386,000 a year. He's McRich!

I don't understand how the "stay-at-home mom" on Medium makes $134,000 a year. I assume that's from her medium-ness and not the stay-at-home-ness?