What Is Whitney Cummings' Net Worth and Salary?
Whitney Cummings is a model, comedian, actress, writer, and producer with a net worth of $35 million. She is best known for her role in NBC's "Whitney" from 2011 to 2013 and as the co-creator of "2 Broke Girls," which earned her a fortune through syndication royalties.
Early Life
Whitney Cummings was born on September 4, 1982, in Washington, D.C. Her parents, Patti and Eric Lynn Cummings, divorced when she was five. Whitney has shared that she grew up in a "dysfunctional, alcoholic household." At age twelve, she moved in with her aunt in Virginia. She attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, graduating in 2002.
Whitney worked as an intern at WRC-TV, an NBC-owned television news station, during high school and studied acting at Washington D.C.'s Studio Theater. She started her career as a department store model to pay for her tuition at the University of Southern California before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communications. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Communications and Film.
Career
Whitney began performing stand-up comedy in Los Angeles clubs, catching the eye of MTV producers who cast her in "Punk'd" in 2004. She starred in "EMR," a low-budget thriller that screened at Cannes the same year. Her success as a comedian grew, and in 2007, "Variety" named her one of the "10 Comics to Watch."
She appeared in "The Tony Rock Project" and the romantic comedy "Made of Honor" in 2008. Whitney also became a regular guest on E! Network's "Chelsea Lately" until the show ended in 2014. She was featured in Comedy Central Roasts of Joan Rivers, David Hasselhoff, and Donald Trump and premiered her first one-hour TV special, "Whitney Cummings: Money Shot," in 2010.
In 2011, she co-created and produced the NBC TV show "Whitney," which aired 38 episodes until 2013. The majority of her net worth comes from "2 Broke Girls," which ran from 2011 to 2017. The show sold into syndication for a record $1.7 million per episode, with TBS acquiring the rights. Whitney made her directorial debut with "The Female Brain" in 2017 and published her first book, "I'm Fine…And Other Lies."
Whitney served as head writer and executive producer for the "Roseanne" revival in 2018 but left after Roseanne Barr's controversial tweets led to the show's cancellation. Her fourth hour-long special, "Can I Touch It?" premiered on Netflix in July 2019, and she launched her podcast "Good for You" in November 2019.
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Whitney Cummings Salary
Whitney Cummings earned $60,000 per episode for her role in "Whitney."
"2 Broke Girls" Syndication Royalties
"2 Broke Girls" aired 138 episodes from 2011 to 2017 and sold into syndication at a record $1.7 million per episode, totaling $235.6 million for the first syndication run. Whitney, along with stars Beth Behrs and Kat Dennings, earns syndication royalties, amounting to around $50 million each over the show's lifetime.
Real Estate
In May 2019, Whitney purchased a home in Woodland Hills, California, for $4.3 million. She previously bought a home in Studio City, California, for $1.49 million in 2011.
