Jennifer Lawrence Tops Forbes Highest-paid List

This year, Forbes expanded their sights beyond Hollywood and included actors and actresses from around the world in their annual list.

The star tops Forbes’ list of Highest Earning Actresses, with an estimated $52 million in pre-tax earnings between June 2014 and June 2015. Even the lowest-paid men on that list make more than half the women on the highest-paid actresses list. She made headlines a year ago when Sony Pictures emails were hacked, revealing that she had made less money from the profits of “American Hustle” than her male co-stars. Sandra Bullock, the top earner the previous year, went down to 15 place with an income of $8 million, according to IBN Live.

Lawrence stood head and shoulders above her competition, raking in a cool $52 million the previous year. To make the list of the highest-paid actors, the minimum bar was $13 million; for women, only $6 million. She commands over $10 million a movie and boosts her bank balance with Dolce & Gabbana and Sodastream endorsements.

The list was formed into these 18 leading ladies who earned over $6 million.

The Hunger Games star is a cinema regular, and has barely been off the big screen since her 2010 break out role in Winter’s Bone.

Coming in third place this year is Melissa McCarthy who earned an estimated $23 million – just $3 million ahead of Chinese star Bingbing Fan.

So while we want to send out a congratulations to the awesome and hard-working women on this list, we also do so with a heavy heart.

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“That doesn’t feel like anything really”, she told Empire magazine of her second place scoring on Forbes’ 2013 and 2014 list.

These numbers, however, still pale in comparison to men in Hollywood who continue to earn tens of millions more than their female counterparts. In fact, her talent fee in the upcoming “Ghost in the Shell” had producers shelling out $17.5 million just to get her in. That’s a tidy sum, to be sure, but it’s sadly $660 million less than the 34 world’s highest-paid actors.