How 'Everybody Loves Raymond' Star Patricia Heaton Amassed Her $40 Million Net Worth

Summary

• Everybody Loves Raymond cast members, including Patricia Heaton, still earn quite a bit of money from syndication.
• Ray Romano's net worth is four times larger than Patricia Heaton's.
• Patricia Heaton made $450,000 per episode during the last seasons of the show.

Because so many shows wind up in syndication, the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond is still earning cash today. Just like Friends, there's still money to be made for anyone who appeared on the show and signed the right contract.

In fact, Ray Romano makes a pretty penny from re-runs of the show, so it's safe to assume the same applies to Patricia Heaton and the rest of the actors as well.

At the same time, Ray's net worth is more than four times larger than Patricia's net worth. Clearly, she hasn't been on the comedy circuit (or the sitcom circuit?) as much as Romano has.

Still, a $40 million fortune is nothing to scoff at, even in Hollywood.

So how did she make all that cash?

Updated March 2024: Patricia Heaton's last project was in 2022. Since then, she has taken some time off from acting to be with her four boys and husband, David Hunt. This has not changed her net worth over the last several years ,and with projects in various stages of production, Heaton has clearly not retired from acting.

Patricia Heaton's Career Before Everybody Loves Raymond

Patricia Heaton found success on several sitcoms before joining Everybody Loves Raymond

Patricia's most well-known role was as Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond. But even before that, she was starring in sitcoms. Some of those projects, according to IMDb, include:

Heaton was on several other series as a guest star before she would get the call to audition for Raymond.

Though it did take some time for Patricia to work her way through a handful of series to get to Everybody Loves Raymond, she then enjoyed a 210-episode run that clearly earned her some cash.

Patricia Heaton Made The Majority Of Her Wealth From Everybody Loves Raymond

Patricia Heaton made $450,000 per episode of Everybody Loves Raymond during the last seasons of the show

The show earned Patricia an impressive list of awards (including two Emmys), and her income began growing by that point. Per Celebrity Net Worth, Heaton earned about $100,000 per episode of Everybody Loves Raymond.

That's a staggering $2.2 million per season -- in the '90s. But by the time they reached the "middle" seasons, says Celebrity Net Worth, Debra Barone was commanding $250K per episode, or about $5.5 to $6 million per season.

By the final two seasons, the publication notes, Patricia was earning $450K on each episode. It sounds like a ton of money, to be sure, but there was one problem. While Patricia reportedly topped out at $450K per episode, Ray Romano was making $1.8 million per episode, says Celebrity Net Worth.

Pay disparity aside, that's an insane amount of cash for a sitcom actor to earn, and it was one of the highest ever. And it seems that Heaton quietly accepted her still-impressive salary without complaint (though plenty of celebrities, like Reese Witherspoon, wish she had campaigned for equitable pay).

Patricia Heaton's Career After Everybody Loves Raymond Ended

Patricia Heaton has had a successful acting career in the years after Everybody Loves Raymond

But films also helped pad Patricia's accounts post-Ray. She didn't stop acting after the sitcom, and it probably helped her land other noteworthy gigs, the biggest of which was The Middle between 2009 and 2018.

Other projects that Heaton worked on after Everybody Loves Raymond, per IMDb, include:

While Heaton took some time off over the last several years, she has a few projects in various stages of production that will be out through 2025. As such, fans of Heaton's will be seeing her on the big screen both in the near future and beyond.