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Net Worth:	$90 Million
Age:	44
Born:	June 29, 1981
Gender:	Male
Height:	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
Country of Origin:	United States of America
Source of Wealth:	Professional NBA Player
Last Updated:	Mar 15, 2026

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• Introduction
• NBA Salary
• Endorsements
• Child Support
• Real Estate

Introduction

Joe Johnson is an American retired professional basketball player with an estimated net worth of $90 Million.

Quick Facts

• Earned $215.2 million in salary during his NBA career
• Peak annual salary of $23.2 million in 2014
• Most valuable contract: 6-year, $123.7 million deal with the Hawks

NBA Salary

Year	Team	Salary
2001/02	Phoenix Suns	$1,608,000
2002/03	Phoenix Suns	$1,729,000
2003/04	Phoenix Suns	$1,850,000
2004/05	Phoenix Suns	$2,358,000
2005/06	Atlanta Hawks	$12,000,000
2006/07	Atlanta Hawks	$12,744,190
2007/08	Atlanta Hawks	$13,488,378
2008/09	Atlanta Hawks	$14,232,567
2009/10	Atlanta Hawks	$14,976,754
2010/11	Atlanta Hawks	$16,324,500
2011/12	Atlanta Hawks	$18,038,573
2012/13	Brooklyn Nets	$19,752,645
2013/14	Brooklyn Nets	$21,466,718
2014/15	Brooklyn Nets	$23,180,790
2015/16	Miami Heat	$261,894
2016/17	Utah Jazz	$11,000,000
2017/18	Houston Rockets	$473,835
2019/20	Boston Celtics	$1,620,564
2020/21	Boston Celtics	$1,620,564
Total Career Earnings:		$188,726,972

Joe Johnson earned $1.6 million in his first season in the NBA. A year later, when he was traded to the Phoenix Suns, his salary gradually increased over the next three years.

In 2005, Johnson signed a 5-year contract with the Atlanta Hawks worth $67.4 million. From 2005 to 2010, Johnson averaged $13.5 million annually before signing a new deal with the Hawks. This time, he signed a 6-year contract with the Hawks, worth almost double his last, at $123.6 million.

When Johnson was traded to the Brooklyn Nets in 2012, his annual salary was $19.7 million. In 2015, the Nets waived Johnson on the last year of his contract after agreeing to a buyout. He spent the last several seasons of his NBA career bouncing from team to team, netting another $20 million or so before retiring.

With a career spanning two decades, Joe Johnson made almost $190 million during his pro career. After a long and satisfying career, Joe decided it was time to retire in 2022 and played his last game mid-season before announcing that it was his last time on the court.

Endorsements

When Forbes ranked Joe Johnson as the world’s 77th highest-paid athlete in 2016, his endorsement income was estimated at $1 million per year. However, this wasn’t the first time that Johnson made the list. He was actually one of the world’s highest-paid athletes for four consecutive years. In each of these entries, Johnson’s estimated income from endorsement deals remained constant at $1 million per year. At the time, this equated to roughly 5% of Johnson’s annual earnings.

The only sponsor ever mentioned in any of these lists was Nike. For the majority of Joe Johnson’s career, he was signed to Nike’s Jordan Brand. Based on this information, we assume the $1 million-per-year figure applies solely to his earnings from Nike.

Child Support

Joe Johnson was previously in a relationship with Shannon Becton in the late 2000s, and in 2007, Shannon gave birth to their son, Gavin. However, the situation was somewhat complicated, and in 2012, Johnson filed a lawsuit against Becton, requesting a paternity test to prove that he was the biological father.

A year later, Joe and Shannon signed a child support agreement, in which he would pay $5,000 per month to rent an apartment for her in New York, plus an additional $2,500 per month in child support. At the time, Johnson had just signed with the Brooklyn Nets and wanted to keep his son close. The agreement also stipulated that Shannon’s child support would drop to $2,000 per month upon her arrival in New York City.

Several years later, with court intervention, Johnson’s child support payments had increased to $6,250 per month. However, in 2019, when Johnson wasn’t quite retired but also wasn’t the same active, high-paid player he had been, he filed another lawsuit. This time, he was requesting a reduction in his child support payments due to a significant decrease in income. The outcome of the lawsuit is unknown.

Real Estate

Atlanta Mansion

In October 2005, Joe Johnson purchased a $3.8 million, 13,860-square-foot, seven-bedroom mansion in Sandy Springs, Georgia. He currently still owns the property, although he’s been trying to sell it for $4.7 million for over a decade. Johnson had also regularly listed the property for rent at $25,000/month.