Jon Stewart: ~ $120 Million

Jon Stewart is an actor and comedian who is popularly known as The Daily Show host from 1999 to 2015. He reportedly received an annual salary of $25 million, pushing his net worth to $120 million as of writing. He started his career in comedy when he decided to gas up and move to New York City in 1986, where he performed as a stand-up comedian in a nightclub called The Bitter End.

In 1989, Stewart landed a job as a writer for the TV show Caroline’s Comedy Hour. His career spanned for over three decades – he started appearing on stand-up comedy shows to writing for other similar shows. Then he got a big break in 1993 on MTV with The Jon Stewart Show. Since then, he’s hosted a variety of other talk shows. His fans were saddened to hear his retirement from The Daily Show back in 2015, saying he’d like to focus on his writing. That would work to some degree, given his massive net worth.