Introduction

Tom Cruise is an American professional actor with an estimated net worth of $600 Million.

Cruise’s career began in the 1980s, and he has starred in almost fifty movies. His early salaries included $75,000 for 1983’s Risky Business, $2 million for 1986’s Top Gun, and $3 million for 1988’s Cocktail.

The most significant impact on Tom Cruise’s net worth came from his Mission: Impossible franchise earnings. Cruise starred in all seven movies and worked as a producer for all seven. When factoring in additional income from his producer credits, he’s estimated to have earned more than $300 million with the franchise.

Quick Facts

• Earned an estimated $835 million from 1985 to 2023
• Earned approximately $100 million from War of the Worlds (2005)
• Received a $50,000 salary for starring in Taps (1981)
• Previously paid $400,000 per year in child support

Net Worth History

When we first discussed Tom Cruise’s net worth in 2019, it was estimated at $570 million. Since then, the release of the long-awaited Top Gun sequel and the latest Mission: Impossible film have helped Cruise earn at least another $26 million in base salary. At the time of writing, Tom Cruise’s net worth is estimated to be roughly $600 Million.

Earnings History

Acting Career

Before becoming an actor, Tom Cruise was interested in becoming a priest as a teenager. A high school teacher encouraged him to participate in a production of Guys and Dolls, which sparked his initial passion for acting.

Originally from New Jersey, Cruise moved to New York to pursue his acting career while working as a busboy. He later moved to Los Angeles and landed a role in 1981’s Endless Love. That same year, he earned $50,000 for his next film, Taps.

Breakthrough Movie Roles (1986 – 1992)

In 1986, starred in The Color of Money and Top Gun. The latter, in which he earned the role of Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, thrust him into the spotlight. Top Gun became the year’s highest-grossing movie, reaching $357 million worldwide with a budget of just $15 million.

His performance helped him secure leading roles in 1988’s Cocktail, 1989’s Born on the Fourth of July, and 1990’s Days of Thunder. During this period, the amount Cruise could command per movie increased from $2 million to $9 million.

Mission: Impossible Franchise (1996 – Present)

One of Cruise’s most notable qualities is his ability to perform almost all of his own stunts without a double. The birth of the Mission: Impossible franchise in 1996 allowed him to showcase his stuntman talent. Tom has also worked as a producer on all seven MI movies. The producer credits, along with his upfront salary, have helped him earn $70-75 million per film on several of his projects.

So far, the MI franchise consists of seven movies:

• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• Mission: Impossible II (2000)
• Mission: Impossible III (2006)
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

Mainstream Action Movie Star (2003-2016)

Following the success of Mission: Impossible, Cruise’s passion for stunt performance led to more roles in fast-paced action movies. Some of the highest-grossing action films he starred in during this time included The Last Samurai (2003), War of the Worlds (2005), Knight and Day (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), and Oblivion (2013). 

War of the Worlds, in particular, was responsible for one of the biggest paydays of Tom Cruise’s career. Thanks to backend points, he earned an estimated $100 million from the movie, which grossed $600 million at the box office.

Film Salaries

In the early 1980s, during the early days of his career, Cruise earned under $100,000 per movie. As mentioned, he earned $50,000 in 1981 from starring in Taps. In 1983, his salary increased slightly to $75,000 for Risky Business, and in 1985, he earned half a million for Legend.

It wasn’t until 1986 that Cruise began commanding seven-figure salaries for acting projects. The first was $2 million for the lead role as “Maverick” in Top Gun. During the next few years, several $3 million paydays followed for Cocktail, Born on the Fourth of July, and Days of Thunder. 

In the 1990s, Cruise’s average salary increased to $15 million per movie. In 1992, he made $25.5 million combined from A Few Good Men and Far and Away. A year later, he took home $12 million for his role in The Firm. Cruise’s first reported $20 million salary was in 1996 for Jerry Maguire.

Mission: Impossible Salary

Due to his producer credits, Tom Cruise has earned a lot of money from the Mission: Impossible franchise. He was estimated to have earned $220 million for the first three movies. While most reports on his salary for the later films estimate $13 million per movie, this is likely just his base salary.

War of the Worlds Salary

One of Cruise’s highest single-movie earnings came from his lead role in 2005’s War of the Worlds. Once backend points were taken into account, he earned roughly $100 million from the film.

Divorce Settlement

Tom Cruise was married to actress Katie Holmes for roughly six years, from 2006 to 2012. However, in June 2012, Holmes officially filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences in the court documents. The divorce proceedings were primarily centered around the couple’s daughter, Suri Cruise, who was only six years old at the time.

Holmes was granted primary custody of Suri, and their divorce settlement stated that Cruise would pay her roughly $400,000 per year in child support, equating to $33,000 per month. This arrangement would last until Suri turned eighteen in April 2024. Cruise also paid for Suri’s health care and education and set up a trust fund for her. Since Suri is now over eighteen, Cruise is no longer required to pay child support to Katie, and if our calculations are correct, he would have paid approximately $4.8 million in total between 2012 and 2024.

Additionally, Holmes didn’t receive spousal support or a personal settlement, and child support was the only issue during the couple’s brief court process.

Highest-Grossing Movies

Six films in the Mission: Impossible franchise made Cruise’s top ten highest-grossing list, but none ranked highest. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) grossed $792 million globally, followed by $695 million for Ghost Protocol (2011) and $683 million for Rogue Nation (2015). The most recent release, Dead Reckoning Part One, grossed only $568 million despite a $291 million budget. The only film in the franchise not to make the list was Mission: Impossible III, which grossed $398 million worldwide.

The highest-grossing film of Tom Cruise’s career was Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which grossed $1.5 billion at the box office while costing $170 million to produce. The other movies on the list include War of the Worlds ($604 million), The Last Samurai ($455 million), and The Mummy ($409 million).

It would be remiss if we didn’t mention the number one-performing film of Cruise’s career in terms of return on investment. The original Top Gun (1986) grossed $357 million worldwide but cost only $15 million to produce. It could technically be considered the biggest box-office success of Tom’s career.

Here’s a complete list of Tom Cruise’s ten highest-grossing movies:

1. Top Gun: Maverick – $1.5 Billion (2022)
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout – $792 Million (2018)
3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – $695 Million (2011)
4. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $683 Million (2015)
5. War of the Worlds – $604 Million (2005)
6. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – $568 Million (2023)
7. Mission: Impossible II – $546 Million (2000)
8. Mission: Impossible – $458 Million (1996)
9. The Last Samurai – $455 Million (2003)
10. The Mummy – $409 Million (2017)

Introduction

Jessica Alba is an American professional actress and businesswoman with an estimated net worth of $100 Million.

Net Worth History

Since founding The Honest Company in 2011, Jessica Alba’s net worth has been heavily dependent on the company’s valuation. We’ll discuss the details of the business shortly. At its peak in late 2015, Honest was valued at $1.7 billion, with Alba holding a 20% stake worth roughly $340 million. When the company launched its IPO in 2021, Alba’s stake had declined to roughly 6.2%, worth $130 million. In recent years, Honest’s stock price has crashed, and the company is currently valued at just $273 million. Alba’s stake? Assuming she still owns 6.2% of the business, her stake would be worth just $13.7 million today.

As a result, estimates of Alba’s net worth have fluctuated heavily over the past years. We previously listed a figure of $200 million, but have since updated our estimates to reflect the decline in the company’s valuation. At the time of writing, Jessica Alba is worth an estimated $100 Million.

Before Wealth & Fame

Although Jessica Alba was born in California, she moved frequently throughout her childhood, including brief periods in Mississippi and Texas, because of her father’s service in the US Air Force. At a young age, Alba suffered from several different health issues, which led to her spending a lot of time in the hospital. Because of this, she became very shy and introverted, often feeling socially disconnected from other children.

When Jessica was 11 years old, her mother discovered an advertisement for an acting competition. She later entered for fun but won free acting classes as a result. The class instructor introduced her to an agent, which helped her begin her journey to a professional acting career.

Acting Career

In the early 1990s, Jessica Alba landed roles in numerous television shows, including The Secret World of Alex Mack, Chicago Hope, and ABC Afterschool Specials. However, her breakout role during this time was when she was cast as Maya Graham in the 1995 reboot of the Flipper TV series. Alba was just fourteen years old at the time, and from 1995 to 1997, she starred in 44 episodes. 

The remainder of the 1990s saw Jessica begin landing lead roles in films such as P.U.N.K.S., Never Been Kissed, and Idle Hands. In 2000, Alba was cast as the lead character, Max Guevera, in the FOX drama Dark Angel. This was her first significant lead role in a television show, in which she starred in all 42 episodes.

However, after Dark Angel was canceled due to a drop in viewership, Alba took a long break from television to focus on landing higher-budget movie roles. The 2000s were the most successful decade of her career at the box office, with roles in films such as Fantastic Four (2005) and its sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), alongside Chris Evans, Ioan Gruffudd, and Julian McMahon. Later, she would also appear alongside Jason Statham in Mechanic: Resurrection (2016).

Throughout her three-decade-long acting career, Jessica Alba has starred in over seventy-five different films and television shows, grossing over $1.8 billion at the global box office.

The Honest Company

In 2011, Jessica Alba co-founded The Honest Company, a business aimed at creating “safe, effective products” in the baby and beauty markets. The company sells a wide range of products designed for sensitive skin, including diapers, wipes, body wash, shampoo, lotions, cleansers, moisturizers, and makeup. 

For many years, Alba’s net worth has been closely tied to The Honest Company’s valuation. The business sold $10 million worth of products in year one, and by 2015, they were generating over $150 million in revenue. During this initial growth period, they also raised several rounds of funding, including $6 million in seed funding shortly after launch. In 2014, Honest raised $70 million in financing, which valued the company at approximately $1 billion.

At some point in 2015, experts claimed that Alba owned as much as 20% of The Honest Company, which, given the above valuation, would have been worth $200 million. Jessica’s stake would inevitably be diluted over the next few rounds of fundraising, which included $75 million in 2017 and an additional $200 million in private equity in 2018.

IPO & Decline

Honest’s valuation peaked at an estimated $1.7 billion in late 2015, meaning that Alba’s stake reached a peak-value of roughly $340 million. When the company launched its IPO in May 2021, Alba held 5.65 million shares valued at $23 per share at closing. This equated to roughly 6.2% of the company, worth $130 million.

Unfortunately, in the first few years after going public, Honest began to struggle. By June 2022, the share price had crashed down to just $2.92/share. Despite a brief recovery to $8.4/share in 2024, it was only temporary. At the time of writing, The Honest Company has a share price of $2.44 with a market valuation of just $273 million. Assuming that she still owns all 5.65 million shares, her stake in the company would now be worth just $13.8 million.

Real Estate

Beverly Hills Home

In 2008, Alba purchased a five-bedroom, 5,277-square-foot estate in Beverly Hills for $4.05 million. She lived there for nearly a decade, eventually relisting the property in 2019 for $6.195 million. A deal was finalized for the asking price in April 2019.

Beverly Hills Mansion

In January 2017, Alba and her then-husband, Cash Warren, paid $9.95 million for an 8,829-square-foot house in the same area. The home had been on and off the market since 2015. It was initially listed for $15 million and eventually reduced to $11 million before the couple bagged a sweet discount. The home’s property taxes are estimated to be $128,000 annually, and its current valuation is roughly $12 million.

Highest-Grossing Movies

Here’s a complete list of Jessica Alba’s ten highest-grossing movies:

1. Fantastic Four – $334 million (2005)
2. Little Fockers – $311 million (2010)
3. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer – $302 million (2007)
4. Valentine’s Day – $217 million (2010)
5. Sin City – $159 million (2005)
6. Mechanic: Resurrection – $126 million (2016)
7. Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World – $86 million (2011)
8. Never Been Kissed – $85 million (1999)
9. Escape from Planet Earth – $75 million (2012)
10. Honey – $62 million (2003)

Introduction

Leonardo DiCaprio is an American professional actor and producer with an estimated net worth of $300 Million.

In a career spanning nearly four decades, DiCaprio has starred in almost 40 films, with a total global box office gross of $7.15 billion. His highest-grossing film, Titanic, which took in $2.26 billion worldwide, is the fourth-highest-grossing movie ever made. It’s also the only movie from the 20th century to gross over $1.5 billion. 

At the beginning of the 1990s, DiCaprio earned just $75,000 per movie. At the end of the 1990s, he was paid $20 million for his leading role in The Beach. Since 1999, he’s been paid at least $20 million for nearly every movie he’s starred in.

Quick Facts

• Earned $40 million for Titanic, the highest-grossing movie of the 20th century
• His First $20 million salary was in 1999 for The Beach
• Single highest payday was $59 million from Inception in 2010
• Has consistently earned a minimum of $20 million per movie since 1999
• Earned $40 million for his latest film Killers of the Flower Moon

Net Worth History

When we first researched DiCaprio’s net worth in 2018, it was estimated to be $240 million. Since then, he’s earned an additional $80 million from Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), Don’t Look Up (2021), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Not to mention growth from his investment portfolio.

In 2025, Leonardo DiCaprio’s net worth is estimated to be $300 Million.

Film Earnings

Leonardo DiCaprio’s earliest recorded salary was $75,000 in 1992 for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Two years later, his salary doubled to $150,000 for The Quick and the Dead, and that same year, he earned his first 7-figure payday for The Basketball Diaries.

Titanic Salary

DiCaprio was only initially paid a $2.5 million upfront salary for his leading role in Titanic, but it was his biggest payday yet. While that figure may seem low, DiCaprio eventually earned an estimated $40 million, thanks to his 1.8% share of the gross backend, considering how much money the film earned.

Titanic grossed $674.3 million in the US and Canada and almost $2.3 billion worldwide against a budget of $200 million. It remains the fourth highest-grossing film globally and the only film produced in the 20th century to gross over $2 billion. The next highest 20th-century film on the list, Jurassic Park (1993), grossed just $1.1 billion. After his $2.5 million salary, DiCaprio’s 1.8% backend should have been worth roughly an additional $37 million.

Inception Earnings

After Titanic’s success, Leo immediately commanded a minimum of $20 million per movie. His $20 million salaries include Catch Me If You Can (2001), The Aviator (2003), Blood Diamond (2005), The Departed (2005), The Great Gatsby (2012), and The Revenant (2015).

However, one salary report that stands out is his 2009 earnings for Inception. In a similar situation to Titanic, DiCaprio opted for a share of the backend earnings, which resulted in total compensation of approximately $59 million.

Recent Acting Salaries

According to Puck News, DiCaprio’s most recent film, Killers of the Flower Moon, earned him $40 million in 2023. Considering that’s one-fifth of the movie’s $200 million budget, and it was a total flop at the box office, he earned an impressive sum. Before that, he earned $30 million in 2021 for Don’t Look Up.

Highest-Grossing Movies

These are Leonardo DiCaprio’s highest-grossing movies:

1. Titanic – $2.26 billion (1997)
2. Inception – $839 million (2010)
3. The Revenant – $533 million (2015)
4. Django Unchained – $426 million (2012)
5. The Wolf of Wall Street – $407 million (2013)
6. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – $378 million (2019)
7. The Great Gatsby – $354 million (2013)
8. Catch Me If You Can – $352 million (2002)
9. Shutter Island – $295 million (2010)
10. The Departed – $291 million (2006)