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Forbes let go of their listing of the 10 highest paid actors of the class , with George Clooney take the top place in a rather dry fashion . Mark Wahlberg topped the list in 2017 with $ 68 million , just edge out Dwayne Johnson ’s $ 65 million . This year , however , Wahlberg was nowhere to be found , at least in the top 10 , while Johnson managed to intimately double is pre - tax income from last year .
Forbes has put out a list of the highest - earning celebrities , dubbed the Celebrity 100 , since 1999 , which get out down how much each celebrity earned , and where it came from . These celebrities can lead the gamut from actors to jock , and this year the overall top wage earner was in fact an athlete , bagger Floyd Mayweather , who earned $ 275 million for his mega - fight withcontroversial UFC champion Conor McGregor . The only two actor in the overall top 10 were Clooney ( # 2 ) and Johnson ( # 5 ) , along with Kylie Jenner ( # 3 ) , Judge Judy Sheindlin ( # 4 ) , U2 ( # 6 ) , Coldplay ( # 7 ) , soccer wizard Lionel Messi ( # 8) , Ed Sheeran ( # 9 ) and another soccer sensation , Cristiano Ronaldo ( # 10 ) .
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Clooney was n’t even on the top 10 last year , since he has n’t starred in a movie since 2016’sMoney Monsterwith Julia Roberts , but he take in a stupefying $ 239 million in pre - tax earnings between June 1 , 2017 and June 1 , 2018 , concord toForbes . The bulk of those earnings came from the sales event of his Casamigos Tequila company to British liquor gargantuan Diageo , for $ 700 million up front , with upwards of $ 300 million to be pay out over the next decade . Clooney has an equal stake in the caller with its two Colorado - founders , Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman , with Clooney pocketing $ 233 million from the sale , plus an additional $ 6 million from"endorsements and older movies . "
Johnson come in a distant second with $ 124 million , which represents the"largest ever act take - habitation from front - of - camera roles"in the Celebrity 100 history , while Clooney ’s take - household wage , albeit largely from non - acting income , is the largest ever for any role player . assail out the top 10 thespian is Robert Downey Jr. ( $ 81 million ) , Chris Hemsworth ( $ 64.5 million ) , Jackie Chan ( $ 45.5 million ) , Will Smith ( $ 42 million ) , Bollywood champion Akshay Kumar ( $ 40.5 million ) , Adam Sandler ( $ 39.5 million ) , another Bollywood star Salman Khan ( $ 38.5 million ) and Chris Evans ( $ 34 million ) . Since Clooney is set to star in and verbatim theCatch-22mini - series , and he also recentlysigned on to direct the sci - fi thrillerEcho , he could very well return to the Forbes list next year .
The Forbes listing is think of to evaluate"both onscreen and extracurricular earnings,“but it ’s still rather uneven that the highest - earning actor of 2018 has n’t star in a moving-picture show in two years . Still , turning what was initially a $ 600,000 investiture in Casamigos into a $ 233 million payday is beyond impressive , as is Johnson ’s record - breaking reckoning as well , which is aided by his monumental social medium following . If it was n’t for Clooney ’s tequila windfall , The Rock would have taken the top spot for two out of the retiring three years , having remove the highest - gain actor situation in 2016 , before falling to 2nd place last class behind Wahlberg . With an telling slate for 2019 and beyond , includingJungle Cruisewith Emily Blunt , Johnson will likely be a mainstay on this list for old age to number - and so might Clooney if he gift wisely enough in another pot liquor company .
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