Since its debut in 2014, Southern Charm fans have grown accustomed to watching the lavish
lifestyle of Charleston's status-obsessed socialites.
Though it seems like many of the cast members come from family money, not everyone on Southern
Charm is raking in millions.
"I think I may need something stronger than a tea here, Whitney."
Brewing a bundle Austen Kroll joined Southern Charm during
Season 4, and since he's a relatively new cast member, his net worth is tough to pin
down.
On paper, Kroll appears to be one of the less affluent members of the cast.
He became immersed in the world of craft beer after moving to Charleston, but he previously
served as a cellar man for Palmetto Brewing Company, Charleston's oldest brewery since
the Prohibition era.
Sources say that working in a brewery cellar in Charleston typically pulls in around $22,000
a year.
Kroll left that position in 2016 and became the territory sales manager of Red Hare Brewing
Company, a Georgia-based craft brewery, a position that typically nets nearly $60,000
a year.
While Kroll's job doesn't make him rich like some of his castmates, he's currently working
on his own beer company, so the sky's the limit for the fortune he could brew.
Nursing a decent living Ashley Jacobs got her start on Southern Charm
when she moved to Charleston to be with then-boyfriend Thomas Ravenel.
"Who would have moved across the country for someone they didn't know that well?"
"Some girls are thirsty!"
"Dehydrated."
The high-profile pair quickly became one of reality TV's most hated couples, in no small
part because of assault allegations against Ravenel.
Jacobs, who appeared without her beau during a reunion special, told host Andy Cohen the
allegations were "all hearsay."
Though Jacobs' net worth is unclear, Romper reports that she worked as a nurse in Santa
Barbara, California and appears to have continued her career in Charleston.
According to GlassDoor, registered nurses in Santa Barbara make an average of about
$105,000 per year, but nurses in Charleston get paid 12 percent below the national average.
That's okay, because Radar Online claims Southern Charm cast members receive $25,000 per episode,
plus a bonus for reunions.
She's since split with Ravenel, but thanks to her income as a nurse and her Southern
Charm paychecks, she probably won't be hurting without his fortune.
If she's smart with her money, she should be just fine.
DIY fortune Craig Conover's career has been a focal point
of more than a few Southern Charm episodes.
The Jack of all trades admitted to lying about graduating from law school and was called
out by co-star Shep Rose in an incident Bravo dubbed "lawyergate."
"I sat there with him and basically co-signed the BAR application, we stuffed it in an envelope.
And I was like, 'Where the hell did that letter go to?'"
He's since tried his hand as a carpenter, gardener, and real estate investor while exploring
his passion for sewing through a lifestyle brand called Flawed Creation.
In an interview with Decider, Conover talked about his plans for the brand, which will
reportedly sell throw pillows, custom onesies and, quote, "anything else you would want
to embroider."
One thing is certain: He didn't amass his reported $400,000 net worth by spending his
afternoons crafting.
He's got his own company called Apex Principles and worked as a litigation assistant and in
the pharmaceutical division of a law firm.
In a move that shocked longtime fans of the series, Conover eventually did finish his
degree and pass the bar exam - well done!
Will he be the next Martha Stewart?
Only time will tell.
Doing très well Naomie Olindo finally pulled the plug on her
relationship with Craig Conover after questioning his sewing-related business endeavors.
Perhaps this Southern Charm star was a little annoyed about Conover's ever-shifting career
interests.
From the looks of it, she's a focused career woman who's reportedly amassed an estimated
$500,000 net worth as of 2016.
In an interview with Decider, Olindo revealed she graduated from a finance-focused MBA program
in July 2017 and launched her own business.
According to Romper, the star used to work in real estate and also helped with the opening
of her family's Charleston-based restaurant called Nico.
Her family also reportedly owns several restaurants in France, by the way.
With all these endeavors, this woman's bottom line is probably très healthy.
Basically Southern royalty From the looks of it, Kathryn Dennis doesn't
really have a lot of professional endeavors going on outside of being a mother to Thomas
Ravenel's children.
Then again, do you really need a second career if you can collect a decent paycheck hawking
diet shakes on Instagram to your 750,000-plus followers?
Dennis' estimated $800,000 net worth appears to be a mix of her reported $25,000 per episode
pay on Southern Charm, social media partnerships, and family money.
According to Bravo, Dennis is related to John C. Calhoun, the seventh vice president of
the United States, who served alongside Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams.
Her grandfather is Rembert Dennis, who served as a legislator in the South Carolina senate
from 1943 to 1998.
She's basically Southern royalty.
The first million Chelsea Meissner has appeared on Southern
Charm since 2016, but she became a main cast member in Season 5.
As part of the core group, she's responsible for her fair share of drama, but what we really
want to know is how a South Carolina hairdresser and surfer babe managed to rack up an estimated
net worth of $1.2 million.
Meissner started her career in medical sales before taking a year off to travel and eventually
become a hairdresser.
The average hairstylist in Charleston makes less than $25,000 a year according to reports
- the same amount as Bravo's reported per episode payout on Southern Charm.
Reality TV has been good to Meissner, who made it to the final elimination round during
Season 24 of Survivor.
On top of her reality TV earnings, Meissner stands to make a pretty penny on brand partnerships.
Putting the bank in Eubanks Cameran Eubanks follows the trend of the Bravo
real estate moguls that came before her, and if you know anything about the network, you
know there are plenty.
The girl may not be on Million Dollar Listing, but her impressive estimated net worth of
$1.5 million speaks for itself.
Eubanks has had a rich career in reality TV.
She hosted Girls Gone Wild and appeared on MTV's The Real World: San Diego.
Southern Charm is nothing new for the TV veteran, but her net worth probably spiked when she
married a doctor in 2014.
According to Good Housekeeping, husband Jason Wimberly is an anesthesiologist who never
appears on the show.
"He just doesn't want to be on camera, which I don't blame him.
I get it.
Not everybody is, you know, built for reality television."
Anesthesiologists typically make more than $350,000 a year, so this duo should be doing
just fine.
Creating an empire Whitney Sudler-Smith's reported $2 million
net worth shouldn't be surprising.
His mother is the rich socialite Patricia Altschul, who's known to sip on $2,000 bottles
of wine.
He's also the filmmaker responsible for all the dramatic goodness of Southern Charm.
Though Sudler-Smith, who created the series, left as a cast member in 2016, he still serves
as an executive producer.
He also added Southern Charm Savannah and Southern Charm New Orleans to his numerous
successes in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
Raking it in Shepard "Shep" Rose is one of the most infamous
Southern Charm cast members, and he's also one of the richest, with an estimated current
net worth of about $4 million.
In 2017, Romper reported that Shep's net worth was a paltry $200,000, so he must have made
some money moves and capitalized on his reality TV run in a very short time.
"I'm fortunate enough to kind of have fun and do my thing."
On the series, Shep appears to suffer from a lack of responsibility and penchant for
partying, but he's certainly grown up enough to launch a career in resort development and
move to Dubai to sell commercial real estate.
When he returned to Charleston, the notorious playboy opened a bar and restaurant called
The Palace Hotel.
Matriarch worth millions Patricia Altschul is the matriarch of Southern
Charm.
Whether she's recognizing the elegance in a well-worn caftan, calling foul on a castmate's
relationship, or cutting someone off after "uncalled for" behavior, Altschul is not afraid
to express her polarizing opinions with class.
As mom to show creator Whitney Sudler-Smith, you can always count on the 70-something socialite
to spill the tea.
With an estimated net worth of $20 million, Altschul is one of the wealthiest members
of the Southern Charm gang - and her life seems like it's been ripped from the pages
of Gossip Girl.
According to Bravo, the star married prominent psychologist Edward Fleming years after divorcing
Sudler-Smith's father.
Fleming and Altschul sailed around the world for a year and a half, but eventually, she
reconnected with her old friend Arthur Altschul, a Goldman Sachs Group partner and Wall Street
mogul.
They were married until his death in 2002.