💰 The King of Queens Cast Salary & Net Worth | Then and Now

Doug Heffernan delivered parcels for a living and couldn't afford a decent sofa. The people who made The King of Queens were doing rather better than he was, and the gap between the best paid and the worst paid of them is wider than anything that show ever put on screen. So I went through the contracts, the renegotiations and the syndication deals to work out what CBS actually handed each of them, what the reruns have paid since, and where that money sits now. Who was on a wage. Who owned a piece of it. Who walked away early. And who ended up making far more after the show than during it. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Intro 0:19 - Larry Romano 2:32 - Merrin Dungey 4:43 - Nicole Sullivan 6:54 - Gary Valentine 9:05 - Victor Williams 11:15 - Patton Oswalt 13:41 - Jerry Stiller 15:58 - Leah Remini 18:17 - Kevin James Everything here comes from contemporary trade reporting, contract terms that were made public at the time, interviews the cast have given since, and the syndication deals that have kept this show on television every single day since it ended. Where a figure was never published anywhere, I say so and show how the estimate was built, because a number nobody can trace is worth nothing to you. What I'm trying to establish is simple. Who actually got rich off The King of Queens, and who just had a job on it. 💰 HIGHLIGHTS YOU'LL SEE - What Kevin James was paid for his first episode, and what he was on by the last one - How Leah Remini's per-episode rate compared to her co-star's for most of the run - The renegotiation that rewrote both of their contracts at once - What Jerry Stiller was given that nobody else in the cast was offered - What the supporting players earned across the full run of a hit network sitcom - What the syndication deal was worth, and how much of it reached the people on screen - The rerun cheques that are still going out today - Why the show ended when it did, and what that decision cost - What each of them was worth before they ever walked onto the