'Two and a Half Men' star may get $350,000 per episode

There aren't many traditional sitcoms doing as well as "Two and a Half Man," which is why soon there won't be too many TV comedy actors doing as well as Charlie Sheen.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sheen is on the verge of reaching a new contract with Warner Bros. TV that would make him the highest paid comic actor on television.

The trade paper says that under the fresh deal, Sheen would make roughly $350,000 per episode this season, up from somewhere in the low six figures under the previous pact. CBS is reportedly sweetening the pot to make the deal happen.

No indication was made of which stars, if any, were being paid more than Sheen before this renegotiation.

"Two and a Half Men" has averaged more than 15 million viewers through its first two airings this season, making it TV's most watched straight-forward comedy by a fairly wide margin. Still, Sheen's salary is dwarfed by the genre's high-water mark of $2 million per-episode received by Ray Romano for the final season of CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond."

Through the first three seasons of "Two and a Half Men," the comedy has earned Sheen an Emmy nomination, two Golden Globe nods and a Screen Actors Guild nomination.