Kevin James Net Worth 2024

What is Kevin James’ Net Worth and Salary?

Kevin James is an American comedian, actor, author, and producer who has a net worth of $100 million. Kevin James pulled off that magical profession ascension about which most stand-up comedians dream.  He went from working the stand-up circuit within the late 80s, to showing on a number of speak reveals, reminiscent of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Dennis Miller Live, to guest-starring on his good friend, Ray Romano’s present, “Everybody Loves Raymond”, to starring in his personal sitcom, “The King of Queens.” “The King of Queens” ran for 9 profitable seasons, and in between capturing the sequence, Kevin James appeared in his personal comedy particular, and launched a movie profession.  His first movie, 2005’s “Hitch,” reverse Will Smith, was a large hit. Since then, he has appeared in such initiatives as, “Grilled,” “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry,” “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” “Grown Ups,” “The Dilemma,” and “The Zookeeper”.

Salary

For the center seasons of the present’s run, Kevin’s wage per episode on “The King of Queens” was $300,000. For the ultimate seasons he earned $400,000 per episode. As an govt producer and proprietor of a proportion of the present’s backend fairness, he has earned north of $50 million on syndication offers to this point.

Early Life

Kevin George Knipfing was born in Mineola, New York, on April 26, 1965. He is finest recognized by his skilled identify, Kevin James. James grew up in Stony Brook, New York, together with his brother, fellow comedian and actor Gary Valentine, and their sister Leslie. His mom Janet labored as an workplace employee, and his father, Joseph Valentine Knipfing Jr., was an insurance coverage company proprietor. James graduated from Ward Melville High School, the place he was a member of the wrestling crew. He continued his training on the State University of New York at Cortland. While at college, a again damage obtained when he performed on the varsity soccer crew ended his sporting profession.

Career Beginnings

James made his stand-up comedy debut in 1989 on the East Side Comedy Club on Long Island. He was managed by Richie Minervini. As his recognition grew, he landed appearances on speak reveals like “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Late Show with David Letterman,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “Dennis Miller Live,” “The Late Late Show,” “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” and “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee.”

Acting Career

Utilizing his comedy timing and improvisational abilities from stand-up comedy, he landed his first tv job in 1991 on “The New Candid Camera”. He was an actor answerable for pulling sensible jokes on unsuspecting individuals. Between 1994 and 1996, he labored because the announcer for MTV sports activities recreation present “SandBlast”. After shifting to Los Angeles and befriending Ray Romano, he guest-starred on a number of episodes of Romano’s CBS sitcom “Everybody Love Raymond”. He landed the chance to develop his personal sitcom, and the ensuing present “The King of Queens” ran on CBS from September 1998 to May 2007. On it, he performed the working class parcel supply man Doug Heffernan that lives in Queens, New York. For his work on the present’s eighth season, James was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006.

James made a short cameo within the 2004 comedy movie “50 First Dates”, after which he made his starring movie debut within the 2005 romantic comedy “Hitch”. He then went on to star in movies like “Grilled” (2006), “I Now Pronounce You Chunk & Larry” (2007), “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” (2008), and “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (2009). In explicit, this final movie “Mall Cop” loved large field workplace success, grossing $39 million throughout its opening weekend within the US, and a complete of $219 million from ticket and residential video gross sales. It even spawned a sequel, “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” (2015). James not solely starred in each “Mall Cop” movies, he was additionally the author and producer for them.

He additionally appeared within the ensemble comedy “Grown Ups” (2010), which was a field workplace success regardless of detrimental vital opinions, and the 2013 sequel “Grown Ups 2”. James continued his comedy movie work with “The Dilemma” (2011), co-starring Vince Vaughn; “Zookeeper” (2011), which he additionally wrote and produced; “Here Comes the Boom”, which he produced; and “Pixels” (2015). He has additionally starred in movies produced by the web streaming large Netflix, reminiscent of “True Memoirs of an International Assassin” (2016) and “Sandy Wexler” (2017).

In addition to his on-screen appearing, he has additionally offered voice work for animated movies like “Monster House” (2006), “Barnyard” (2006), “Hotel Transylvania” (2012), “Hotel Transylvania 2” (2015), and “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” (2018). He returned to tv work in September 2016 together with his sitcom “Kevin Can Wait”, however it solely ran for 2 seasons till May 2018. Kevin starred within the movies “Becky” and “Hubie Halloween” in 2020 and performed the function of Kevin Gibson in tv sequence “The Crew” in 2021. He additionally took on the function of Sean Payton in 2022’s “Home Team.” Kevin James is about to star within the upcoming action-comedy film “Guns Up.”

Other Work

While selling his movie “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” in 2007, James served because the grand marshal for the Pepsi 400 NASCAR Cup Series inventory automobile race. He repeated this function in 2010 whereas selling “Grown Ups”, in 2012 on the fall Talladega race to advertise “Here Comes the Boom”, and in July 2013 on the Coke-Zero 400 to advertise “Grown Ups 2”.

In July 2009, the online sequence “Dusty Peacock” debuted and started streaming on Crackle. It was produced by James, and starred his brother Gary Valentine.

In February 2020, James revived his YouTube channel by posting brief movies “based mostly on skinny premises.” As of August 2023, he has amassed 958k subscribers with greater than 75 million complete views.

Personal Life

James married actress Steffiana de la Cruz in California on June 19, 2004. The couple first met in 2001 on a blind date. Together, they’ve 4 youngsters.

Real Estate

In 2012, Kevin and Steffiana paid $18.5 million for a lavish oceanfront residence in Delray Beach, Florida. A 12 months later they paid $4.25 million for the empty lot subsequent door to create a completely ridiculous compound. Situated steps from the seaside, the first mansion alone options eight bedrooms and ten and a half loos, and sits on 1.85 acres of land. The compound sports activities a large courtyard, floor-to-ceiling home windows, a surprising stone verandah, a number of fireplaces, a pool room, a yard pool, and an enormous storage. They listed the practically 3-acre property for sale in 2016 for $29 million, with out discovering a taker. Kevin lastly discovered a purchaser in 2016, offloading the property to an LLC for an unrecorded however typically confirmed $27 million.

Annual property taxes on the compound got here to proper round $500,000 when Kevin was the proprietor. Here is a video tour of Kevin James’ former Florida mansion:

Kevin beforehand owned a pair properties in Los Angeles, essentially the most notable he offered in 2013 for $5.5 million.

In February 2020, Kevin and Steffiana paid $14 million for a brand new mansion in Delray Beach. The 18,906-square-foot residence overlooks the Atlantic Ocean within the very coveted space of Delray Beach, simply north of stylish Boca Raton. The grounds of the property are lushly landscaped. The property has a five-car storage hooked up to the principle home. The residence has an elevator, upgraded finishes, a leisure space, and a wine cellar. The patio options an out of doors kitchen with a built-in grill and a pool that’s only a few steps away from the ocean. There can also be a one-bedroom, one-bathroom visitor home. He listed this property on the market in 2022 at practically $20 million however needed to decide on simply $12.67 million in May 2023.