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While we are busy being becoming immersed in the daily lives, emotions and relationships of their on-screen personas—Sofia as Gloria, Robin as Claire, and Julianna, who for so long was Nurse Carol, slowly shifted to Alicia—TV’s top actresses are busy making money.

As in previous years, impressive sit-com contracts buoy the women leading the list. Sofia Vergara and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting’s super-sized deals with Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory, respectively, are largely responsible for their big paydays.

Vergara padded her television income with lucrative endorsement deals—including one with CoverGirl and one with Head and Shoulders—while continuing to run the talent management and entertainment-marketing firm Latin World Entertainment that she co-founded in 1994.