Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith are among the most popular Hollywood couples known for their controversial situations. Although they have gained public attention for all the wrong reasons in recent times, with their elaborate careers, they have minted a huge fortune. After the Oscar slap fiasco, Mr. Smith’s career might have gone into tatters, but still, he has earned more than he could spend in his lifetime.
It is quite clear who has the upper hand when it comes to the net worth comparison, yet Jada is not far behind her husband in amassing over the years. Will’s constant flow of money comes from his projects as he is one of the highest-paid stars. On the other hand, Jada has tapped into many business ventures to keep her income affluent. So, let’s compare their estimated net worth collections in this article.
Jada Pinkett Smith’s Net Worth
If someone’s name has to be mentioned with a vast career graph in different genres, it should be Jada Pinkett Smith. From being an actress, producer, talk show host, director, singer, author, and businesswoman to managing her household chores and raising her kids – she has done it all. Accumulating all of her earnings from her different ventures, her estimated net worth is $50 million.
Jada knows how to find her ways to surpass all the hurdles in her life. She has never relied on one career field to make her name in it. The Baltimore-born actress always tried to expand her wings, so much so, that she had even created a band named Wicked Wisdom which was quite popular back in the 2000s. In 2021, she was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people by Time Magazine.
Even though she has been married to one of the richest men in the show business, Jada has also made her name in the industry with her versatility. The 53-year-old has featured in The Matrix franchise, The Nutty Professor, the Madagascar films, Bad Moms, and Girls Trip. She began her career with TV shows like True Colors, 21 Jump Street, and more but rose to fame for A Different World.
In 2018, she started to co-host the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk and even bagged a Daytime Emmy Award. She has come up with many business ventures through which she kept her money flowing.
What is Will Smith’s Net Worth?
One of the highest-paid actors, Will Smith‘s career might now seem to be in rumbles, his estimated net worth is $350 million, as per Celebrity Net Worth. Beginning his career in the mid-80s with the MC of hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince made him bag Grammys. After that, he went ahead to feature in a sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and then became a legendary actor with his power-packed performances in Bad Boys and Men in Black.
Over the years, he worked with dedication and passion. Will proved his worth as an actor and in 2021, he won his first Oscar for his performance in King Richard.
Later his career faced a huge rough patch because of another Oscar evening, where he slapped Chris Rock for cracking a joke on his wife. But his ultimate net worth wasn’t impacted and even though he was penalized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Will was not fined.
Jada Pinkett Smith’s revenue flow
Apart from being an actress, Jada is also an established producer in Hollywood with her company, Overbrook Entertainment. She picks up the projects with such topics that will began a conversation or stir up the society. As a producer, she has worked on a few projects, including Hala and the Netflix-documentary series, African Queens: Njinga. In Hawthorne, she starred in as well as producing it and earned $150,000 per episode.
Jada has also invested in a few business ventures and even founded a brand that works in educating people about the waste created by the personal care industry, Hey Humans. Her brand products help people to understand how they minimize it. The products can be found in Target, Amazon and Walgreens.
Moreover, apart from the talk shows and brand endorsements, Jada has a luxurious real-estate portfolio which she shares with her now-separated husband, Will Smith. The couple invested $7.5 million on 100 acres of property situated between the hills of Malibu and Calabasas, California. They also own a land surrounding their property which makes it to 150 acres.
Although they wanted to sell it for a very long time, it hasn’t worked out yet. Accumulating the villa and the land, the estate might cost around $60 million now.
How much Will Smith earn from his projects?
As an actor, Smith has garnered a lot of appreciation for donning different kinds of roles in his filmography. From playing a genie in Aladdin to portraying a tough guy in Men in Black – he has done it all with a lot of precision. It is quite natural that the actor also earned a fortune for taking up these roles. So, let’s take a look at his earnings from each of his projects.
As per reports, Will Smith wanted to have $20 million as his paycheck for his role in Aladdin. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he earned $12.5 million upfront and earned the rest from the backend (box office grosses).
For Men in Black, he got $5 million, as per reports. However, for Men in Black II, the actor took home $20 million along with 10% box office profits. However, for MiB 3, Will Smith received a huge sum of $100 million – the most of any movie star has ever earned.
For Independance Day, Will received $5 million, as per a report in Complex. Will Smith earned a whopping $25 million for I Am Legend.
For Suicide Sqaud, Smith was paid $20 million. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor took home $27 million for featuring in Netflix’s Bright.
Variety reported that he earned $40 million for King Richard – the movie that landed him with the Oscars.
For Pursuit of Happiness, he earned $71.4 million. Smith made $12.5 million for 2019’s Gemini Man. The actor earned only $7 million for Wild Wild West but he didn’t like it for some reason. Once he admitted that this movie the worst movie in his filmography. He said, “I don’t know, Wild Wild West is a thorn in my side. To see myself in chaps… I don’t like it.”
As per reports, he received $15 million for voicing cleaner fish, Oscar in Shark Tale. For the first three seasons of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, Will Smith made $2.8 million.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s marital life
Will and Jada met on the set of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, at that time he was still married to Sheree. But after their split, the couple got together and in 1997, they took the vows. Although Jada wasn’t ready for the marriage, they tied the nuptial bond anyway. In a 2019 interview with People, the actress said,
I never wanted to get married. But my mother was like, ‘You have to get married’—she’s so old-school—and Will wanted a family. So I said, ‘Alright, maybe it’s something I should do.’
Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith have two children – Jaden and Willow. Will also has a son, Trey Smith with his ex-wife, Sheree Zampino. Over the years of their marital life, the couple has faced many speculations and rumors about getting separated because of cheating allegations.
In a 2020 controversial conversation with Angela Lee, August Alsina admitted that he and Jada had dated for a while when she was still married to the Men in Black actor. However, later that year, when Jada and Will sat across each other for Red Table Talk, they opened up about the issue and confirmed that she had a relationship with him. Will said,
We decided that we were going to separate for a period of time and you go figure out how to make yourself happy and I’ll figure out how to make myself happy.
When, Jada Pinkett Smith added, “From there, as time went on, I got into a different kind of entanglement with August.…Yes, it was a relationship, absolutely.” She continued to clarify that Will never gave his ‘permission’ and denied that fact.
In the last few years, even though the rumors were surfacing about their separation, the couple has always talked about how they are still together. Reports were even rife that Jada didn’t like how Will slapped Chris Rock. But later, in a 2023 interview with People, Jada claimed that the duo call that Oscar incident as ‘holy slap’ because many good things came out of it.
She added, “That moment of the sh*t hitting the fan is when you see where you really are. After all those years trying to figure out if I would leave Will’s side, it took that slap for me to see I will never leave him.”
During the Bad Boys: Ride or Die premiere in Los Angeles, the whole family was seen posing for the camera. So, it can be
Who is the richer Smith between them?
After analyzing Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s net worth estimation, it’s quite clear that Will wins the comparison as he has $300 million more under his name. This is because the actor not only earned millions from his movie projects, but also received paychecks from his social media platforms.
As per reports in 2020, he made $21,000 per TikTok post given his massive fanbase. Now, he has over 74 million followers. On the other hand, Jada even though acted in many films, she is quite new in the production business. She is not very far from Will but still she has a long way ahead.
According to reports, Will and Jada’s son Jaden has an estimated net worth of $8 million. He debuted his acting career alongside his father in Pursuit of Happiness. Later, he worked on Karate Kid with Jackie Chan. Jaden even started his musical career and featured in the hit single Never Say Never.
On the other hand, the couple’s daughter, Willow Smith’s estimated net worth is $6 million. Within a very young age, she has accomplished a lot of things. Willow acted in I Am Legend with Will and Madagascar 2 alongside Jada. She even released her song Meet Me At Our Spot which became viral on TikTok and even got ranked No 21 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Trey Smith, Will’s first born stays off the radar and lives low-key than the rest of the family. He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
