Thanks to the new contract, Ellen Pompeo has now turned into the highest paid actress in the category of television dramatic TV series - for each episode of the "Anatomy of Passion" it receives $ 575,000, or a little more than $ 20 million a year. And Mallen agreed to increase the fee just after the departure of Dempsey:
"For me, Patrick's departure in 2015 was the determining point in terms of negotiations on the contract. Producers could always use it as a "lever" against me - "We don't need you, we also have Patrick," what they did. I do not know if they came with Patrick in the same way, we never discussed our contracts. Several times I tried to negotiate with him to unite efforts, but it was never interested. Once I decided to ask for my fee to be 5,000 dollars more than Patricks - because this is the "anatomy of passion", and I am Meredith Gray. But no one went to it. And I could go at any time, so why didn't I do it? This is my series, I am number one. I felt the same thing that many other actresses feel: why should I give up a great role because of some kind of peasant? I will not allow some kind of peasant to survive me from my own home. "