Charlie Sheen, the CBS “Two and a Half Men” star, is the highest paid U.S. television actor this year, according to a poll carried out by TV Guide magazine and released on Monday.

The actor, who plays a well-off, pleasure-seeking ladies man on the top-rated sitcom earned more than any other TV actor this year with revenue of $825,000 per episode, including funds from his ownership rights in the show.

With 23 episodes per year, the standard number of shows broadcast each season for a comedy like “Two and a Half Men,” Charlie Sheen would be collecting just under $20 million a year for impersonating Charlie Harper, a role that also earned him three Emmy nominations.

Following his CBS colleague in the No. 2 spot on TV Guide’s list is William Petersen, who gets $600,000 an episode for playing investigator Gil Grissom on the successful police drama “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”

As cited by Reuters, TV Guide editor Craig Tomashoff said that the fact that the two highest-paid television actors “happen to be on CBS is coincidental.”

Furthermore, among the best paid women, Mariska Hargitay claimed the first spot for TV drama, gaining $400,000 an episode for her Emmy-winning role as a New York detective on NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”

Oprah Winfrey, who was named this year’s most powerful celebrity by Forbes magazine, collects $385 million a year for hosting her eponymous talk show, while Simon Cowell, the acid judge on the Fox network’s “American Idol,” earns $50 million for one season of the popular talent show.

“Family Guy” and “American Dad” creator Seth MacFarlane’s most recent $100 million five-year deal with Fox makes him the highest-paid writer-producer who conceives shows for the small screen.