Every year, Parade magazine runs a special survey that shows the annual salaries of everyone from celebrities to working stiffs. It’s a nice little diversion that’s often wedged between the latest Danbury Mint collector plate and the Marilyn vos Savant brain teaser.
Well, I just found a website that also purports to inform us as to how much your favorite movie and TV stars rake in. The site, celebritynetworth.com, will give you an overview of your favorite celebrities, as well as how they earn their incomes.
So I decided to test this little website out by entering the names of various reality television stars. Because NOTHING says “real life” like reality television. Right? 🙂
According to celebritynetworth.com:
- Kim Kardashian pulls in $40 million a year. Think about that for a second. $40 million a year. That’s probably an average of $5 for every time someone has asked this question, “What is Kim Kardashian famous for?”
- Phil Robertson of the “Duck Dynasty” show – $15 million. Not a bad haul for a television show that I’ve probably watched maybe three total minutes, tops.
- Michael Ballard of the “Full Throttle Saloon” show – $5 million. Yep, he owns the largest biker bar in South Dakota, which is the setting for his reality TV series.
- Lebanon Levi Stoltzfus of the “Amish Mafia” show – $200,000. You mean to tell me that this guy runs every protection racket and enforcement deal in Lancaster, Pa., and he only makes $200,000 a year? Hmm…
- Barry Weiss of “Storage Wars” fame – $10 million. I know, “how did he get all that money from bidding on old storage lockers?” Well, before he got involved in this show, Weiss made millions in the produce business, then retired and became an antiques collector.
- Rick Harrison, the main star of “Pawn Stars” – $8 million. You buy low, you sell high. “I would love to have that Zakk Wylde bullseye guitar. Let me give you $200 for it.”
- Les Gold, the main star of “Hardcore Pawn,” the OTHER popular pawn show – $1.5 million. Probably cold make more money if he didn’t keep arguing with his kids Seth and Ashley, or tossing out rude customers who are trying to sell him fake diamonds and gold-plated chains.
- Alana Thompson – $300,000. That’s right, “Honey Boo Boo” makes more than you do. Meditate on that. Urgh. Makes my brain hurt to meditate on that.
- Sig Hansen, captain of the F/V Northwestern on “Deadliest Catch” – $2 million. Yes folks, you too can earn millions from crab fishing in the Bering Sea.
- Zeke Tenhoff of the “Bering Sea Gold” show – $1 million. Although in this season’s episodes, Zeke has gone completely nuts. The one thing money can’t buy, I guess… is sanity.
- Tickle from the “Moonshiners” show – $300,000. Two things about this. First – how in the world can you make that kind of money by running illegal alcohol and not get caught? And second – Chuck, what kind of bottom-of-the-barrel reality TV shows have you been watching, man?
Well that was kind of fun… I guess it just goes to show that reality TV stars are just like you and me. They distill moonshine, then they go to work at the pawn shop, afterward they catch some crab and sell some shoo-fly pie, and then go make a sex tape with Ray J. And every one of them makes more money doing that than do you and I at our day jobs.
Ha ha ha ha…
Chuck The Writer 