Jim Carrey Net Worth: How Much Jim Carrey Earns?

By David Mudd On Apr 4, 2022

His Net Worth is $180 Million.

Actor, comedian and producer Jim Carrey has a fortune of $180 million. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Jim was one of the world's highest-paid entertainers. In 1996, Jim Carrey became the first actor in history to earn $20 million from a single film, with “The Cable Guy” being his debut. As of now, he has earned hundreds of millions of dollars in film salaries and bonuses.

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Jim Carrey Early Life

Jim Carrey was born on January 17, 1962, in the town of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. His mother worked at home as a housewife, and his father worked as an accountant. When Jim was 12 years old, his father lost his job, and the family was forced to live on the streets. For survival, the entire family lived out of a van and worked nighttime shifts as janitors and security guards at a local factory. After a long day at school, Jim, then a teenager, would frequently work a full eight-hour shift at the factory after school.

After being born a natural comic and impersonator (as was his father), Jim got his professional start doing stand-up in Toronto comedy clubs when he was barely 15 years old. He hasn't stopped since.

In his early years, his father would chauffeur him to and from nightclubs. He dropped out of high school to follow his ambitions and eventually relocated to Los Angeles, where he was discovered by Rodney Dangerfield while performing at The Comedy Store and signed on as an opening act for him.

Legend has it that a depressed and broke Jim Carrey travelled into the Hollywood Hills in his beat-up Toyota Camry in 1985. Jim signed himself a cheque for $10 million “for acting services performed” while looking out over the entire city of Los Angeles. Later, he put the cheque in his wallet and dated it 10 years later. Spoiler alert: within those ten years, his wish came true. During Jim's father's funeral in 1994, Jim tucked a cheque into the casket.

Jim Carrey Success

It was on the Wayans brothers' sketch comedy show “In Living Color” in 1990 that Carrey got his first taste of stardom. His most memorable characters, such as the masochistic and prone to mishap Fire Marshal Bill, appeared on this show.

In Living Color ended in 1995, but Carrey's major film debut, “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” was released shortly before the end of the show. He became an overnight sensation thanks to the success of the film. Both “The Mask” and “Dumb & Dumber” were box office smashes in the same year. “The Cable Guy,” the sequel to which he made $20 million in profits, was a career high for him financially.

“Liar, Liar,” “Bruce Almighty,” “Me, Myself, and Irene,” and “Yes Man” are among Carrey's other prominent humorous projects. The Truman Show, The Majestic, “Man on the Moon,” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” are just a few of the dramas and comedies in which he has acted.

Jim Carrey Salary Highlights

In Living Color gave Jim $25,000 per episode, his first huge payday. The show's 127 episodes netted Jim about $3.2 million. At the current exchange rate, that's around $6 million. For the first Ace Ventura movie, he received a salary of $350,000 from the studio. After that, he would make another $15 million from the sequel, which he would appear in the following year. Dumb & Dumber earned Jim $540,000 for his role in The Mask, whereas Dumb & Dumber made him $7 million.

Among the films Jim made $20 million from were The Cable Guy, Batman Forever, Liar Liar, Me, Myself & Irene, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Yes Man.. Jim was also entitled to a share of the proceeds from the sale of items based on the book The Grinch Stole Christmas. A 36.2 percent share of revenues earned by Yes Man resulted in a $35 million payday. That's one of the top 30 biggest movie paychecks ever.

To put that in perspective, a movie that made $20 million in the mid-1990s would make $34 million now.

Jim amassed a total of $200 million in salary and incentives between 1994 and 2008. He made at least $100 million in the next decade. He has probably earned more than $300 million in cinema salaries to date.

Jim Carrey Personal Life

Jim Carrey has had two marriages. From 1987 to 1995, he had a marriage to Melissa Womer. As a family, they have a daughter named Jane Erin Carrey, who was a finalist on American Idol in 2012. Dumb & Dumber co-star Lauren Holly married Jim Carrey in 1996. There was only one year of marriage. He was romantically linked to actress and model Jenny McCarthy from 2005 till 2010.

Jim Carrey Awards

Jim has received more than 40 significant honours during his career, including two Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture for his work in The Truman Show in 1999 and Man on the Moon in 2000, respectively.

Jim Carrey Property

Jim is the owner of a variety of properties in the United States. His principal property has been a huge estate in the Brentwood neighbourhood of Los Angeles for the past many years. In 1994, he purchased the first property in his compound for $3.8 million (equivalent to approximately $6.6 million in today's dollars). In 2000, he spent $1.7 million to purchase the 1-acre site adjacent to his house. A big guest house, swimming pool, and tennis court are now part of the property's amenities.

The mansion, which was built on the Malibu oceanfront for $9.75 million, was purchased in 2002. In 2011, he offered the house for sale for $18 million dollars. In 2013, he was able to sell his home for $13.4 million to a new owner. Jim also has a residence in New York City, which he rents out.

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