Jerry Seinfeld's Net Worth (Updated 2022) | Wealthy Gorilla

Net Worth:	$1.1 Billion
Age:	71
Born:	April 29, 1954
Gender:	Male
Height:	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Country of Origin:	United States of America
Source of Wealth:	Professional Comedian
Last Updated:	Feb 19, 2026

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• Introduction
• Net Worth History
• Earnings History
• Seinfeld Salary
• Syndication Royalties
• Real Estate
• Car Collection

Introduction

Jerry Seinfeld is an American professional stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and writer with an estimated net worth of $1.1 Billion.

Seinfeld is best known for playing himself in the sitcom of the same name, which he co-created with Larry David. He’s also had an incredibly successful career as a stand-up comedian.

Quick Facts

• Peak annual income of $267 million in 1998
• Earned an estimated $56.5 million in upfront salary from Seinfeld
• Rejected an offer of $5 million per episode for a 10th season of the show
• First listed on the Forbes billionaire index in April 2025

Net Worth History

When we first started tracking Jerry Seinfeld’s net worth in 2019, he was worth approximately $950 million. At the time, while Forbes had been covering his annual income for over two decades, the publication had never mentioned Seinfeld’s net worth. That changed in April 2025, when Forbes officially listed Seinfeld as a billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion.

Given that he’s been grossing approximately $50 million per year since 2019, this timing aligns nicely with the original estimate for that year.

Earnings History

Year	Earnings
1996	$28,000,000
1997	$66,000,000
1999	$267,000,000
2005	$30,000,000
2006	$100,000,000
2007	$60,000,000
2009	$85,000,000
2012	$40,000,000
2013	$32,000,000
2015	$36,000,000
2016	$43,500,000
2017	$69,000,000
2018	$57,500,000
2019	$41,000,000
2020	$51,000,000
Total	$1,006,000,000

If you’ve already glanced at the table above, then you probably noticed there are some gaps in the figures for Jerry Seinfeld’s annual income. This is because we compiled the table using data from every year the comedian has been featured on a Forbes list. Figures for the period between 1996 and 2009 were taken from the Forbes Celebrity 100, and some of that information has been lost as the internet has evolved.

Between 2012 and 2019, Seinfeld was consistently featured in Forbes’ “Top-Earning” or “Highest-Paid Comedians” lists, allowing us to continue seeing the publication’s estimates of his annual income. Finally, when Forbes renewed the Celebrity 100 in 2020, Seinfeld’s name reappeared.

In any case, over the years we have available, Jerry Seinfeld earned over $1 billion from all his endeavors; however, given we’re missing 9 years in between, his actual earnings were likely much higher. A lot has changed over this time, so let’s highlight some key years and his most notable income sources for each.

In the late 1990s, Seinfeld was among the highest-paid actors on television, thanks to his work on the hit show of the same name. However, since he was also a co-creator of the show, salary wasn’t the only way he was making a living. In 1998, syndication deals began pouring in. Turner Broadcasting agreed to pay $1 million per episode to air reruns of the show on TBS, dramatically skyrocketing Jerry Seinfeld’s income. That year, he earned a whopping $267 million, the most lucrative year of his career.

Since Seinfeld, Jerry’s annual income has typically ranged between $30 million and $70 million, with a couple of outliers, including $100 million in 2006 and $85 million in 2009. Seinfeld royalties still accounted for the lion’s share of his earnings during this time.

Seinfeld Salary

In the late 1980s, Jerry Seinfeld co-created the hit TV sitcom Seinfeld with fellow comedian Larry David. The pilot episode first aired on NBC in July 1989, with the rest of the first season airing a year later in May 1990. Jerry was the lead in the show, given that the character was loosely based on him. While David didn’t star in the show, several other prominent actors did, most notably Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, and Jason Alexander.

Seinfeld earned income in more ways than one from the show, as he both created and starred in it. Let’s start by discussing his acting salary over the course of the show’s lifetime. In season one, Jerry reportedly received $20,000 per episode. There were only five episodes in the debut season, earning him $100,000. For seasons two and three, his paycheck was doubled to $40,000 per episode. Since the second season comprised 12 episodes, and the third season 22, he should have earned $480,000 and $880,000, respectively.

From seasons four through six, Jerry was earning approximately $100,000 per episode, totalling $2.4 million in season four, $2.2 million in season five, and $2.4 million in season six. By this point, Seinfeld had already earned roughly $8.46 million from the show in acting salary alone.

Final Three Seasons

Seinfeld’s salary quintupled to $500,000 per episode for the show’s seventh and eighth seasons; for comparison, at the time, his fellow cast members, Louis-Dreyfus, Richards, and Alexander, had just secured a pay rise to $160,000 per episode. Jerry earned $12 million apiece for the above seasons, bringing his tally to $32.46 million.

In 1997, Seinfeld briefly became the world’s highest-paid television actor when he negotiated a $1 million-per-episode deal for the ninth and final season of the show. When his fellow cast members heard about the raise Jerry was receiving, they demanded equal pay and threatened to quit the show if they didn’t also received $1 million per episode. They later settled for $600,000, a substantial increase in its own right. Comprising 24 episodes, season nine of Seinfeld earned Jerry approximately $24 million.

When we put all this information together, Jerry Seinfeld earned a total of $56.5 million in salary alone from the sitcom. His leading cast members are believed to have earned around $30 million.

Rumored Tenth Season

According to reports, NBC wasn’t quite ready to close the curtains on Seinfeld and offered Jerry a ridiculous $5 million per episode to produce a tenth season. This information came to light in 2012 when Warren Littlefield, NBC’s former President of Entertainment, was interviewed by Fox News. Littlefield was asked how much he offered “Jerry to do another season,” and he replied with:

“Over $100 million. We offered him $5 million an episode. We didn’t mess around. What we put on the table was unheard of. We went in there with a staggering sum, and there was tremendous confidence that no one could walk away from it. He came to me and said, ‘I don’t have a life, I’m not married, I don’t have kids.’ We gave it everything we had; he was tempted, but in the end, it was a quality-of-life decision.”

Syndication Royalties

While $56 milion in salary is a lot of money, this clearly wasn’t what made Jerry Seinfeld a billionaire. When Seinfeld and David first created the show and secured a contract with NBC, they each owned a 7.5% stake in the sitcom’s backend revenues. Over time, and after several negotiations, the duo clawed back an additional 7.5% each, bringing their totals to 15%. This meant that when companies began knocking on the door looking for syndication rights, David and Seinfeld would each receive a healthy slice of the pie.

The show began syndication on local broadcast stations in the mid-1990s, and in 1998, TBS paid a record-breaking $1 million per episode to acquire the rights. By the end of the year, the show had generated $1.7 billion in syndication revenues, which at a 15% stake, earned Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David $255 million each.

Despite first airing over three decades ago, Seinfeld still generates tens of millions of dollars in royalties for the duo each year and continues to be picked up by other networks. In 2015, streaming platform Hulu acquired the rights for $180 million, and in 2019, Netflix did the same for $500 million. These deals earned Seinfeld and David $27 million and $75 million, respectively.

Real Estate

In May 2000, Jerry Seinfeld paid $16 million to buy Billy Joel’s mansion in East Hampton, New York. Several reports suggest he actually paid $32 million, but the public records show otherwise. Not much else is known about the property, other than that it houses Seinfeld’s $17,000 Elektra Deliziosa coffee maker and, most likely, his vast car collection.

The home’s current value is also hard to estimate, given that it’s been off the market for nearly three decades. However, industry estimates place the figure somewhere between $25 million and $35 million.

In 2007, Seinfeld and his wife paid $7.55 million for a 27-acre estate in Telluride, Colorado, featuring 11 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, a gym, and a yoga room. This property features a snowy mountain backdrop and was likely used by the family as a skiing vacation home. Seinfeld sold it for $14 million in 2022.

Car Collection

He has a 1964 Porsche 911, a 1964 Volkswagen Camper “EZ Camper” Conversion, a 1983 Porsche 959, and a 1959 Porsche RSK Spyder. His collection of cars is estimated to be worth between $50 to $150 million.