Actor Charlie Sheen has been in salary negotiations for the last two months with Warner Bros. Television, which produces his hit CBS series, "Two and a Half Men." And it looks like he come out a big winner when all is said and done.

Sources say the deal may net Sheen somewhere in the neighborhood of $350,000 per episode, which will make him the highest-paid comedy star in television today. CBS is reported to be contributing to the pot, as has become commonplace when high-profile network stars are renegotiating salaries.

The actor is also said to have a significant profit-participation stake in the series, now in its fourth season. This means he will receive part of the money made from recent syndication deals with Tribune Broadcasting stations for broadcast syndication and to FX for cable syndication (at about $750,000 per episode) beginning in 2010.

But while Sheen's deal puts him at the top of the current sitcom stars in terms of pay, the all-time big winner of the sitcom actor pay scale remains the nearly $2 million per episode actor Ray Romano pulled in for the final season of "Everybody Loves Raymond" in 2004-05.

No word on whether Sheen's "Two and a Half Men" co-star Jon Cryer will be trying for a bigger share of the pie, but I think he'd be crazy not to.

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