News - Kylie Jenner, Beyoncé And The Highest-Paid Women In Entertainment 2019

For the second time ever, Taylor Swift has sung and danced her way to the top of the annual global Celebrity 100 list of the world’s highest-earning entertainers, making $185 million in the last 12 months.

She’s joined on the list by fellow musicians including Beyoncé (No. 20 on the overall list, $81 million), newcomer Ariana Grande (No. 62, $48 million) and divas boosted by lucrative Las Vegas residencies: Jennifer Lopez (No. 76, $43 million), Lady Gaga (No. 90, $39.5 million) and Celine Dion (No. 100, $37.5 million). 

“I’m never satisfied,” Beyoncé once told Forbes. “I’ve never met anyone that works harder than me in my industry.”

Though the top of this year’s Celebrity 100 is packed with female superstars, only 16 women made the list in total. The imbalance indicates the gender pay gap existing throughout the entertainment industry—whether it be on the field (no female athletes made the cut this year) or on the big screen.

More than half of the highest-paid female celebrities are musicians. On screen, it proves more difficult to break through: only two of the 12 actors on our list are women. Scarlett Johansson’s (No. 47, $56 million) role of Black Widow makes her the top-earning woman in the Marvel Universe. In addition to a salary of about $15 million for Avengers: Endgame, she got a percentage of the film’s estimated $700 million profit.