Music
50 Cent
$50 million
Rapper, hyphenate

Diddy
$36 million
Rapper, superhyphenate

The Strokes
$835,000
Rockers, Room on Fire (570,000 copies sold at roughly
$1.50 per album)

Wynton Marsalis
$796,012
Artistic director, Jazz at Lincoln Center

John Lennon
$21 million
Deceased singer-songwriter

Frank Sinatra
$5 million
Deceased singer-songwriter

(Photo: Jun Sato/Wire Image)

Mark Ronson
$400,000
D.J.

Tom Stewart
$20,000
Tower Records clerk

Lorin Maazel
$1,909,155
Conductor, New York Philharmonic

Joseph Volpe
$713,000
General manager, Metropolitan Opera

Renée Fleming
$135,000
Mezzo-soprano, Metropolitan Opera
($15,000 per performance)

George M.
$16,800
Street musician, Astor Place subway station

Books
Malcolm Gladwell
$1.5 million
Author, Blink
(advance, plus $250,000 New Yorker salary and $30,000 per speaking engagement)

Jonathan Safran Foer
$1 million
Author, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
(advance, plus $12,500 per speaking engagement)

Judith Regan
$1 million
President and publisher, Regan Books

Sonny Mehta
$750,000
Chairman and editor-in-chief, Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Group

Ann Godoff
$400,000
President and publisher, the Penguin Press

Sam Tanenhaus
$180,000
Editor, The New York Times Book Review

Stephen Riggio
$4,813,567
CEO and vice-chairman, Barnes & Noble

Lisa Jong
$12,896
Clerk, Barnes & Noble
(32 hours a week at $7.75 per hour)

Media
Barry Diller
$156,168,000
Chairman and CEO, IAC/InterActiveCorp

Richard Parsons
$23,557,165
Chairman and CEO, Time Warner, Inc.

Robert Iger
$12 million
CEO, Walt Disney Corporation

Sumner Redstone
$56 million
Chairman and CEO, Viacom

Les Moonves
$52 million
Co-president and co-COO, Viacom

Tom Freston
$52 million
Co-president and co-COO, Viacom

Bob Wright
$19.7 million
Vice-chairman of GE, chairman and CEO of NBC Universal

Martha Stewart
$3,565,969
Founder, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

Martha Stewart
$9.6 million
TV Star
($1.6 million for The Apprentice, $8 million for Martha)

Susan Lyne
$4,714,469
CEO and president, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
$1.92 million
Chairman and publisher, the New York Times Co.

Peter Kann
$2.3 million
Chairman and CEO, Dow Jones

Karen Elliott House
$877,000
Publisher, the Wall Street Journal

Bill Keller
$650,000
Executive editor, the New York Times

Col Allan
$600,000
Editor, New York Post

Richard Johnson
$300,000
“Page Six” gossip columnist

Thomas Friedman
$300,000
Columnist, the New York Times
(plus $40,000 per speaking engagement)

Maria Schneider
$17,500
Associate Editor, The Onion

Will Shortz
$90,000
Crossword editor, the New York Times

Jim Romenesko
$169,187
Blogger, the Poynter Institute

Jessica Coen
$30,000
Blogger, Gawker.com

(Photo: Donald Bowers)

Parakash Patel
$14,400
Newsstand operator, 50th Street and Third Avenue

Hugh Hefner
$983,000
Founder and editor-in-chief, Playboy Enterprises

Christie Hefner
$1.44 million
Chairman and CEO, Playboy Enterprises

David Pecker
$3.15 million
CEO and president, American Media

Norm Pearlstine
$2 million
Editor-in-chief, Time Inc.

Anna Wintour
$2 million
Editor, Vogue

Sylvana Soto-Ward
$40,000
Assistant to Anna Wintour

Bonnie Fuller
$1,574,851
Editorial director, American Media

Janice Min
$1.2 million
Editor, Us Weekly

James Kelly
$1.1 million
Managing editor, Time

Tom Wallace
$1 million
Editorial director, Condé Nast

David Remnick
$1 million
Editor, The New Yorker