Movieline Crunches the Numbers on Tyler Perry's $130 Million Paycheck

Happy 42nd birthday, Tyler Perry! What better way to celebrate than by being named "entertainment's highest paid man" by Forbes? And to everyone else, I am sorry to inform you that to earn said title, Tyler Perry banked $130 million between May 2010 and May 2011. Ahead, Movieline parses Perry's windfall to give us some perspective on Madea's moneyed maker.

· Tyler Perry's 2008 to 2009 earnings, according to Forbes: $75 million

· Tyler Perry's 2009 to 2010 earnings, according to Forbes: $112 million

· Tyler Perry's 2010 to 2011 earnings, according to Forbes: $130 million

· Tyler Perry's income growth percentage from 2010: 16%

· Average amount of money Tyler Perry banked monthly this year: $10.8 million

· Median U.S. household income in 2010: $50,221

· Number of U.S households Perry could have funded entirely in 2010: 2,589

· Amount of money Tyler Perry charges his fans to join his "online family:" $0

· Amount of money Tyler Perry charges his "online family" for a talking Madea keychain: $6

· Amount of money Tyler Perry charges his "online family" for a For Colored Girls soundtrack: $15

· Amount of money Tyler Perry charges his "online family" for a Madea's Big Happy Family souvenir book: $10

· Number of feature films released by Perry in this twelve-month period: 2 (For Colored Girls and Madea's Big Happy Family)

· Estimated budget for For Colored Girls: $21 million

· Rotten Tomatoes rating for For Colored Girls: 33 percent

· Total box office gross for For Colored Girls: $37.7 million

· Estimated budget for Madea's Big Happy Family: $25 million

· Rotten Tomatoes rating for Madea's Big Happy Family: 39 percent

· Total box office gross for Madea's Big Happy Family: $53.3 million

· Number of television series that Perry currently produces: 2 (Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Meet the Browns)

· Amount of money Perry's production company earns from TBS (where both series air): $200 million for 100 episodes*

· Amount of money Perry's production company earns from TBS per episode: $2 million*

· Number of House of Payne episodes that premiered during this period: 28

· Number of Meet the Browns episodes that premiered during this period: 58

· Total number of television episodes produced by Perry in this period: 86

· Estimated amount of money Perry's production company earned from these episodes: $172 million

If those figures are depressing, consider that we don't even know what Perry banked for his syndicated TBS episodes, the merchandise he continues to sell for pre-2011 projects, his plays or his upcoming role in I, Alex Cross. Feel free to commiserate for each other below.

* denotes the these figures are based on Perry's 2006 contract

· The Highest-Paid Men in Entertainment [Forbes]