The faces beside Jimmy Donaldson in a MrBeast video are famous to hundreds of millions of people, so the obvious question follows: what is the crew actually worth? The honest answer starts with a caveat. We model MrBeast himself in full, source by source, because he owns the company and leaves a public trail. His crew are paid talent with far less on the public record, so the figures below are lighter estimates, built from their roles and their own channels rather than any disclosed salary. We do not lift numbers from other sites; where a figure is a range, that is because the truth is a range.
How the crew gets paid
There are three income streams to keep separate. The first is cast pay for showing up in the videos. Donaldson has said on the record that he pays his people well and shares the upside with the team that makes the work, so the regulars are compensated far better than a typical production hire. The second is their own channels and streams, which only some of them have built. The third is sponsorships and merch that ride on their personal fame. The gap between the richest and the least rich crew member comes down almost entirely to how much of the second and third they have going.
Karl Jacobs
Karl is the clearest example of turning a seat in the videos into a business of his own. He started behind the camera and moved in front of it, then built a large independent following as a Twitch streamer and through his own YouTube channels, boosted enormously by his run in the Dream SMP Minecraft scene. Between cast pay, a real streaming income, merch, and sponsorships, he is the strongest candidate for the wealthiest of the on-camera regulars, plausibly in the low single-digit millions. He is the template for what a crew member can become when the personal audience grows large enough to stand on its own.
Chandler Hallow
Chandler is the fan favorite, a childhood connection who joined the core group in 2018 and became a running character across the challenge videos. His earnings lean more heavily on cast pay and the sponsorships that come with being one of the most recognizable supporting faces on YouTube, rather than a large solo channel. That still adds up over years of appearing in the platform's biggest videos, placing him in a similar low-millions range, but his money is tied more tightly to the main channel than Karl's is.
Nolan Hansen and the newer regulars
Nolan moved from a background presence to a familiar face and has since launched his own gaming channel, following the same path Karl mapped out. He and the other newer regulars are earlier in that arc, so their totals are smaller for now, more likely in the high six figures to low millions, and rising with their screen time and their own channels. This is the part of the crew where the numbers are the softest, because their independent careers are still being built.
Chris Tyson
Chris Tyson was one of the earliest core members, part of the group from the very beginning of its rise, and departed the crew in 2024. Because that chapter is closed and the details sit outside anything to do with a net worth estimate, we leave it there.
Why none of them are close to MrBeast
Even the best-paid crew member is a rounding error next to Donaldson, and the reason is the single most important idea on this whole site. The crew earn income. Donaldson owns the company. His roughly $2.68 billion is almost entirely the value of his stake in Beast Industries, not a salary, which is why he sits three orders of magnitude above the people standing next to him in the thumbnail. We walk through that split in why he owns almost nothing personally while being worth billions on paper, and in why the videos can lose money and the number holds anyway.
Curious what a personal channel like Karl's or Nolan's brings in? Run the numbers in the YouTube Money Calculator, built on the same rate tables behind our creator models.
So the crew net worth question has a two-part answer. Individually they do well, a handful of them in the millions, which is a remarkable outcome for being good on camera and building a following on the side. Collectively they are still dwarfed by the one person who owns the thing they all appear in. For the full, fully sourced version of his number, see the MrBeast net worth breakdown.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the richest member of the MrBeast crew?
Among the on-camera regulars, Karl Jacobs is the strongest candidate, because he is the only one who turned his time on the channel into a large independent career of his own through Twitch, his own YouTube channels, and a following built during the Dream SMP era. Chandler Hallow is the other fan favorite, though his earnings lean more on cast pay than a solo audience. None are remotely close to MrBeast himself.
How much does MrBeast pay his crew?
Exact salaries are not public, but MrBeast has said on the record that he pays his team well and shares upside with the people who make the videos. For the on-camera regulars, that cast pay is the base, and the ones who also built their own channels and sponsorship deals earn well beyond it. Treat any specific figure as an estimate rather than a disclosed salary.
Is Chris Tyson still in the MrBeast crew?
No. Chris Tyson was one of the earliest core members of the group but is no longer part of the crew, having departed in 2024. The current on-camera regulars include Chandler Hallow, Karl Jacobs, and newer members like Nolan Hansen.
How much is MrBeast himself worth?
Our model puts Donaldson's net worth at about $2.68 billion, almost all of it his equity in Beast Industries. He is the only member of the operation we model in full, source by source, because he is the one who owns the company; the crew are paid talent. His full breakdown is on our MrBeast net worth page.