Quick Links
American radio personality, television host, author, and actor, Howard Stern, has an estimated net worth of $650 million.
Howard Stern is the host of The Howard Stern show. Stern has a reputation for being outspoken, touching on controversial show topics and uncensored dialogue and interviews. Stern’s style earned him repeated fines by the FCC for radio show indecency from 1986 to 2005. Stern began his radio career in college at Boston University, then making his professional debut at WNTN in 1975. Howard Stern worked at various radio stations, landing at WXRK where he worked for 20 years before leaving for Sirius, a medium free of FCC regulations, in 2005. During Stern’s time at WXRK, he would attract peak audiences of close to 20 million across 60 markets in both the United States and Canada.
In 2010, the veteran shock-jock renewed his contract with SiriusXM Radio through 2015 despite talks of possible retirement. Stern signed a $1 million advance contract with Simon & Schuster in 1993 to publish his first biographical book, Private Parts, which was released on October 7, 1993. The book’s first printing sold 225,000 copies within hours of going on sale, becoming the fastest-selling title in Schuster’s history. A film adaptation of the biographical Private Parts, with Howard Stern playing himself in the title role, was released on March 7, 1997, topping the box office in its opening weekend with a gross of $14.6 million, and a total of $41.2 million in movie tickets. Stern continues to work for Sirius and is one of the highest-paid radio figures in the United States.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2019 |
Book Sales |
Sales of the book Private Parts (approximately 1 million copies sold) |
$34,830,000 |
|
2018 |
Salary |
Annual salary as one of the judges of America's Got Talent |
$15,000,000 |
|
2017 |
Earnings |
Howard Stern's earnings before taxes and management fees for the year 2017 |
$90,000,000 |
|
2016 |
Salary |
Base salary with Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. for the year 2016 |
$85,000,000 |
|
2015 |
Salary |
Annual salary with Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. for the year 2015 |
$90,000,000 |
|
2015 |
Contract |
A five-year contract with Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. to leap from conventional airwaves to satellite radio -- a potentially huge boost for the nascent, and unregulated, medium |
$450,000,000 |
|
2015 |
Asset |
Purchase value of Howard Stern's estate in Palm Beach |
$53,000,000 |
|
2013 |
Salary |
Annual salary with Sirius Satellite Radio |
$100,000,000 |
|
2012 |
Salary |
Annual salary as one of the judges of America's Got Talent |
$15,000,000 |
|
2012 |
Salary |
Annual salary as one of the judges of America's Got Talent |
$15,000,000 |
|
2011 |
Salary |
Annual salary as one of the judges of America's Got Talent |
$15,000,000 |
|
2010 |
Contract |
A five-year contract with Sirius radio |
$400,000,000 |
|
2006 |
Bonus |
Amount Howard Stern received from his second stock investment |
$82,900,000 |
|
2006 |
Bonus |
Bonus in Sirius stock for meeting subscription benchmarks |
$225,000,000 |
|
2006 |
Contract |
A five-year contract with Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. to leap from conventional airwaves to satellite radio -- a potentially huge boost for the nascent, and unregulated, medium |
$500,000,000 |
|
2006 |
Salary |
Annual salary with Sirius Satellite Radio |
$100,000,000 |
|
2005 |
Salary |
Annual salary with Sirius Satellite Radio |
$31,000,000 |
|
2004 |
Contract |
Howard Stern's contract with Sirius Satellite Radio |
$500,000,000 |
|
1998 |
Lawsuit Settlement |
The amount he received after filing a $1.5 million lawsuit against Ministry of Film Inc. |
$50,000 |
|
1995 |
Book Sales |
Sales of the book Miss America (approximately 1.6 million copies sold) |
$27,180,000 |
|
1995 |
Contract |
Howard Stern's book deal with ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins that produced Miss America, a top New York Times Bestseller for 16 weeks |
$3,000,000 |
|
1994 |
Book Sales |
Gross sales of Howard Stern's first book titled Private Parts in the United States |
$41,000,000 |
|
1994 |
Salary |
Annual salary from Howard Stern's radio programs |
$8,000,000 |
|
1984 |
Contract |
In 1985, he signed a five-year contract with the Infinity Broadcasting |
$500,000 |
|
1982 |
Contract |
A five-year contract with NBC |
$1,000,000 |
|
1977 |
Salary |
Annual salary as the program and production director of the station |
$12,000 |
|
1977 |
Salary |
Annual salary for the year 1977 |
$5,000 |