JAY LENO – EST. $450 MILLION

Jay Leno is an American comedian, host, and actor, to name a few. He became a household name after hosting NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His accumulated salary in his hosting stint was $320 million, before taxes. James Douglas Muir Leno, a New Yorker, was born in 1950. He majored in speech therapy at Emerson College and later appeared as a featured comedian in The Tonight Show.

In 1992, Leno replaced Carson as host of the evening show. He stayed there until 2009 and started a new show called The Jay Leno Show. The New York Times presumed that his annual salary for his show was north of $30 million. No doubt, for that paycheck, he chose to collect cars instead of other valuable things. He has 300 vehicles, probably all with insurance, and has a collective worth of not less than $100 million. In 2020, Leno had a reported net worth of $450 million.