PewDiePie’s net worth

PewDiePie's net worth: $78 million

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg is a Swedish Youtube personality, web-based comedian, video producer, and vlogger. The internet man is best-known by his online alias PewDiePie. His current net worth stands at $78 million and is increasing. Starting his professional YouTube career in the year 2010, Felix has already made a staggering sum of $124 million so far.

However, the tight tax cut-offs in his homeland have reduced his net worth to $78 million. Breaking down his income from youtube, YouTube provides $9.35 for every 1,000 views, and he has over 14 billion views on the PewDiePie channel. Nevertheless, his estimated monthly income/salary from his channel is around $10 million per year, and his overall estimated income is $15 million per year. OpenSlate ranked PewDiePie as the number 1 YouTube channel in the year 2012. In 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported about his marvelous yearly income of $4 million. According to a stat, he has earned over $35 million from merchandise sales. Likewise, his book "This Book Loves You" became the New York Times best sellers in 2016, adding another several million to his huge net worth bucket. Currently. his Youtube channel has 14 billion views and 50.8 million subscribers.

Career Start

Felix was born to a  Swedish family in Gothenburg. Both of his parents are business executives. He also has a sister. PewDiePie had an early infatuation for arts, games, and fictional characters. Young Felix used to draw several game characters including Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario. Later,  he went to the University of Technology to study Industrial Economics and Technology Management. However, he never passed out from the college. The Gothenburg-born online star dropped out of the college in order to pursue his dreams and career on YouTube but was excluded from the family. He then started to work at a hot dog stand. During the primary phase of his career, he faced lots of troubles, comments, and criticisms because of his rape jokes videos. Not repeating the same mistakes, he later apologized and started playing games such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent, following his passion and identifying the huge market demand. Felix later held his hands in a number of games, gradually increasing his net worth and fame.

Huge Success

PewDiePie already gathered more than 60,000 subscribers by the end of December 2011. With lots of hard efforts, he surpassed the 1 million subscribers in 2012. OpenSlate ranked PewDiePie the number 1 YouTube channel in the year 2012. While The Wall Street Journal reported about his marvelous income of $4 million in 2013. Breaking down his income from youtube, YouTube provides $9.35 for every 1,000 views. While he has over 13.8 billion views on PewDiePie channel. Now, the sum might be easy, Time Magazine listed his name in its '100 most influential people' list this year.