I don’t think Neil Patrick Harris needs an introduction.

We’re all familiar with the hit CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother, which aired from 2005 to 2014 and received an 8.3 rating on IMDb.

Harris portrayed Barney Stinson on the TV program as a ladies man with a lot of money, but we later discovered why.

In season nine, the last series, he confessed while inebriated that his job is to ‘give legal exculpation and sign anything’, which he refers to as ‘PLEASE’ whenever his friends ask him.

He tells Ted and Robin in the ‘Unpause’ episode that he was working with the police because they were afraid they were setting him up as the fall guy for his company’s shady practices.

Anyway, Barney was on genuine cheese, as was Harris, who was 32 at the time the first episode aired.

So, what was his exorbitant salary?

Well, the 51-year-old came on The Howard Stern Show and disclosed how much he was earning each week.

Howard Stern disclosed to listeners how much he earned.

He remarked, “How I Met Your Mother, I assumed you’d make more money from that program. You made $250,000 each episode after it was over.”

Sorry, but what? Stern, who earned that much money at 40 years old when the final season aired, believes he received unfair treatment.
Harris surely didn’t. He said, “We were well paid by the end.”

Stern then probes further, asking him, “Are you satisfied with your pay on that show?”

Harris laughed and answered, “Are you joking, $250,000 per week? I was pleased with that.”

He said that Josh Radnor, who played the show’s primary character Ted Mosby, Jason Segel, who played Marshall Eriksen, Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky, and Alyson Hannigan, who played Lily Aldrin, all made $250,000 each week during the previous season.

However, he admitted that around the fourth and fifth seasons, he attempted to negotiate a higher salary than his co-stars.

He revealed that some of them made an effort to collectively bargain for their wages, which was something not everyone hoped for.

He stated, “It appeared that we all had unique professions that we had fostered up to that moment.

“And so when you end up with an agent and a manager and an attorney, you have relationships with them, and they’re hardcore fighting for you financially for your future.”

“I wasn’t trying to take someone else’s money,” he explained. “I just wanted my team to fight as hard as they could for me for the next season’s worth.”

Fair play to Harris for speaking so frankly about the entire situation; I like him much more for it.