These days, it seems like everybody has a podcast. If you thought that podcasting alone can make you rich, though, think again. According to The Best Media, advertising rates during a podcast range from $20 to $100 per 100 listeners. With affiliate sales, you can make an additional $500 to $900 per episode – if you have 10,000 downloads per episode. So, you need to have a lot of listeners to make really good money from podcasting.
With nearly 2.5 million podcasts out there, it’s no surprise that the most successful ones also tend to be ones where the hosts are well known already. Even then, the richest podcasters have often already amassed a fortune in a different field. So who are the richest podcasters in 2022? Here are some of the richest people who have made podcasts (past and present), according to estimated net worth (note: all figures are given in US dollars).

20. Anderson Cooper (Estimated net worth: $50 million)

19. RuPaul (Estimated net worth: $60 million)

18. Alec Baldwin (Estimated net worth: $60 million)

17. Barack and Michelle Obama (Estimated net worth: $70 million)

16. Kate Hudson (Estimated net worth: $80 million)

15. Bill Simmons (Estimated net worth: $100 million)

14. Joe Rogan (Estimated net worth: $100 million)

13. Trevor Noah (Estimated net worth: $100 million)

12. Katie Couric (Estimated net worth: $110 million)

11. Jon Stewart (Estimated net worth: $120 million)

10. Snoop Dogg (Estimated net worth: $150 million)

9. Dave Ramsey (Estimated net worth: $200 million)

8. Gwyneth Paltrow (Estimated net worth: $200 million)

7. Conan O’Brien (Estimated net worth: $200 million)

6. Demi Moore (Estimated net worth: $200 million)

5. Shaquille O’Neal (Estimated net worth: $400 million)

4. Bruce Springsteen (Estimated net worth: $650 million)

3. Reid Hoffman (Estimated net worth: $2 billion)

2. Oprah Winfrey (Estimated net worth: $2.5 billion)
