Ellen Pompeo Acting in Not A Sound Medical TV Show for Hulu 

How Ellen Pompeo Earned Her Massive PaycheckIn 2017, Pompeo signed a deal worth more than $20 million a year: $575,000 per episode plus a seven-figure signing bonus and two backend equity points worth upward of $6 million, per The Hollywood Reporter. She also became a series producer with an office on the Disney lot in Burbank for her Calamity Jane production company.
Harkening back to when she asked for $5,000 more per episode than Dempsey was being paid, “just on principle,” and was turned down, Pompeo explained in 2018 that his exit from the show was a “defining moment, deal-wise.”
No longer having him on the show meant his popular character’s presence couldn’t be leveraged against hers. And with Rhimes’ various mega-deals as inspiration, Pompeo aimed higher and went after what she felt she deserved.
“When your face and your voice have been part of something that’s generated $3 billion for one of the biggest corporations in the world,” she told THR in 2018, “you start to feel like, ‘OK, maybe I do deserve a piece of this.'”