Kelly Ripa Net Worth 2026: $120M From 25 Years of Live

Kelly Ripa has a net worth of about $120 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth (checked September 2026). The same outlet puts her pay for co-hosting Live with Kelly and Mark at $22 million a year, and that syndicated morning show, which she has anchored since 2001, is the main reason the number is so high.

Where Kelly Ripa's money comes from

Ripa's fortune rests on one very long-running job, with a production company, a podcast, endorsements and New York real estate built around it.

Live salary

Celebrity Net Worth reports her Live salary at $22 million per year. That figure has been stable for a decade: during the 2016 dispute over Michael Strahan's exit, the Chicago Tribune described her pay as a $20 million salary. ABC and Disney have never published her contract, so every salary figure in circulation is a reported estimate rather than a disclosed number.

Twenty-five seasons at that level explain most of the fortune. The show has been renamed four times around her, from Live! with Regis and Kelly to Live with Kelly and Mark, while she stayed in the lead chair.

Milojo Productions

In 2007 Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, founded Milojo, a New York production company named after their three children, Michael, Lola and Joaquin, according to Wikipedia. Milojo signed a first-look deal with Discovery for unscripted shows, including Homemade Millionaire, which Ripa hosted. Celebrity Net Worth says the company develops scripted, documentary and true-crime projects. Its revenue is private.

Podcast and radio

Ripa hosts the podcast Let's Talk Off Camera for SiriusXM. In April 2025 SiriusXM renewed it for a third season and added a live call-in show on its Radio Andy channel, Yahoo reported, citing The Hollywood Reporter. The deal's value was not disclosed.

Endorsements, acting and a book

Celebrity Net Worth lists past spokesperson work for 7 Up, Tide and Pantene, plus later deals with Electrolux and the shoe brand Ryka. Her acting credits add smaller sums: the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith (2003-2006, 73 episodes), a part in the 1996 film Marvin's Room, guest roles on Riverdale and American Housewife, and voice work on Kim Possible. She also published a collection of personal essays, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories. None of these fees or advances has been reported.

Career timeline

Kelly Maria Ripa was born on October 2, 1970, in Stratford, New Jersey. Her father, Joseph, worked as a county clerk in Camden County. She studied briefly at Camden County College before leaving to work in New York.

The step from soap actress to talk-show host was almost accidental. In a 2026 interview with Variety, Ripa said she was pregnant with her second child, had a year and a half left on her All My Children contract and was planning to stop working when ABC asked her to fill in. Audience response to that first appearance made her the front-runner, and the show was renamed for her about three months later.

Her awards record helped keep her salary high. Wikipedia lists Daytime Emmy wins for talk show host in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2024, and a win for the show itself in 2025.

Recent changes (2025-2026)

• Podcast renewal (April 2025). SiriusXM renewed Let's Talk Off Camera and added a biweekly live call-in show.
• 25 years on Live (February 2026). Variety marked her anniversary with a long interview in which she said she had asked Oprah Winfrey for advice on when to leave a daytime show. She gave no departure date.
• Time off after surgery (July 2026). Entertainment Weekly reported she would miss at least two weeks of the show while recovering from a procedure. She returned in September after about six weeks away following gum graft surgery, People reported.
• Home talk (July 2026). On a July 7 broadcast, the couple joked about downsizing their Manhattan townhouse, but Ripa called it her "forever home," Yahoo reported.

No new Live contract figure was reported in 2025 or 2026, so the $22 million salary estimate has not changed.

Assets and real estate

Property is the best-documented part of Ripa's balance sheet, because New York sales are public record. The figures below are for homes she owns with Consuelos.

• Upper East Side townhouse. The couple's main home is a five-story Manhattan townhouse that Realtor.com valued at $27 million in February 2026. Celebrity Net Worth says it has an elevator to a private roof garden and puts its worth at $30 million or more. They bought it about 12 years ago, according to Yahoo.
• Manhattan loft and penthouse. Celebrity Net Worth reports they bought a 5,625-square-foot loft for about $2.8 million and later sold it for about $6.8 million. In 2005 they paid $9 million for a penthouse in the same building, previously owned by Nicole Kidman, and sold it in 2014 for $24.5 million.
• Hamptons house. Bought in 2004 for $2.35 million, per Celebrity Net Worth.
• Telluride. The couple also own a ski home in Telluride, Colorado; its price was not reported.

Celebrity Net Worth estimates the couple's combined property portfolio at $45 million or more. Their gains on the two Manhattan apartments alone came to roughly $20 million before costs, based on the reported buy and sell prices.

Kelly Ripa's net worth compared

All figures below are Celebrity Net Worth estimates, checked September 2026.

Seacrest's fortune is much larger because he also hosts American Idol, Wheel of Fortune and a national radio show; Celebrity Net Worth puts his annual pay at $75 million. Ripa has kept to one daily show. Other television fortunes on this site built on long hosting or sitcom runs include Kris Jenner, Ray Romano and George Lopez.

Because Ripa and Consuelos married in 1996 and co-own their homes and company, their household wealth is best read as the two figures together, about $160 million on Celebrity Net Worth's numbers. Lists that give "Kelly and Mark" a single total usually start from those two estimates.

Why estimates differ

Celebrity Net Worth's $120 million is the figure most outlets repeat; HELLO! and Yahoo both cited it in 2025 and 2026. Some lesser-known sites publish totals two or three times higher, or claim a Live salary of $50 million a year, without naming a source. We do not use those numbers.

What is known: her salary has been reported at $20 million to $22 million a year for at least ten years, and her property deals are on public record. What is not known: her taxes, agent and management fees, spending, Milojo's profits, and how the couple split their joint assets. A net worth built on salary alone is also sensitive to how much of that pay was saved, which no outside estimate can see.

Our figure uses Celebrity Net Worth's estimate as of September 2026 and does not add Consuelos's separate wealth.