Tom Cruise is the actor with the highest salary in the 2022 rankings with 100 million USD for the movie ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, followed by Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt…

According to statistics from Variety, Tom Cruise received a record amount of 100 million USD after the brilliant success of part two & #39;Top Gun’. The film currently has a huge box office revenue of 1.24 billion USD.

Will Smith is the star in the movie ‘Emancipation’ scheduled to premiere next year. He was paid 35 million USD for participating in this movie, before the scandal of slapping a colleague on the Oscar stage this year occurred.

Leonardo DiCaprio received 30 million USD for the movie ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ – the movie has a budget of 200 million USD and premieres in November.

Brad Pitt also pocketed 30 million USD from the movie ‘Formula 1 Drama’.

Dwayne Johnson is a guaranteed box office star today and producers are not afraid to spend money to pay him a large salary. The Rock was paid 22.5 million USD for starring in the fantasy action movie ‘Black Adam’ released later this year.

Comedian Will Ferrell ranked sixth with $20 million for his new movie ‘Spirited’.

Chris Hemsworth stars in action movie ‘Extraction 2’ earlier this year and according to Variety, he was paid 20 million USD.

Two other actors received salaries of 20 million USD when continuing to star in their famous film franchises: Vin Diesel with ‘Fast X’ and Joaquin Phoenix with ‘Joker 2’.

Some A-list stars who also received a salary of 20 million USD are: Tom Hardy with ‘Venom 3’, Ryan Reynolds with ‘Spirited’ and Denzel Washington with ‘The Equalizer 3’.

The next movie actor to receive the biggest salary last year was Jason Momoa – 15 million USD for the movie ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’.

This year, Eddie Murphy returned to the famous action comedy franchise of his youth, ‘Beverly Hills Cop’. Part four brought him a salary of 15 million USD.

Chris Pine appears on the list with a salary of 13 million USD for the new part of ‘Star Trek’.