Jerry Seinfeld | Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld is one of the industry’s most recognized actor and comedians. Over the years, he has managed to amass a net worth of $950 million, most of which was thanks to his highly-successful sitcom Seinfeld. The actor owns 7.5% of the sitcom’s backend equity points, which means he has a steady income stream even when he isn’t working all the time. To provide perspective, the show has managed to generate around seven billion dollars just from syndication revenue. Netflix recently acquired digital rights for it, so that’s another $500 million!

It wasn’t always this lucrative for the actor, however! In the beginning, he was only receiving $20,000 per episode. The following seasons saw his pay getting doubled. It was not until the show’s ninth and final season that he received $1 million for each episode. He holds the distinction for being the first actor to have achieved this degree of success on TV.