1. 1  Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base.
Answers.comÂ® is making the world better one answer at a time. Mike Rowe makes about $250,000 per episode of Dirty Jobs. Mike Rowe has a net worth of about $35 million and makes about $10 million per year.
Costs for the show jumped 17 percent to pay him. Ryan Seacrest 's salary to host American Idol tripled in 2009 -- jumping from $5 million a year to $15 million, paid in part by by CKX, which owns the Fox hit.ut Idol can afford Seacrest's whopping salary. It's the most profitable show on television. It earns $7.11 million every half hour for News Corp., according to Forbes -- which is more than three times Two and a Half Men 's $2.89 million per 30 minutes (which will be affected by Charlie Sheen's firing).