Julia Louis Dreyfus did 8 seasons of Seinfeld.
She earned roughly $60 000 per episode for seasons 2, 3 and 4 (59 episodes), which makes about $3,5 million.
She earned $150 000 per episode for seasons 5, 6, 7, and 8 (92 episodes); which makes about $13,8 million.
She earned $600 000 per episode for the final season (24 épisodes), which makes about $14,4 million.
That’s about $32 million. Adjusted for inflation, that’s 53 million dollars in 2020.
Julia has no ownership stake in the show, so she doesn’t profit from syndication deals. However, she gets some royalties from reruns, which represent less than $500 000 each year, and she gets a percentage on DVD sales. All in all, she earned something like a conservative (adjusted) 70 million dollars with Seinfeld alone.
Now she’s also worked on Veep, with an average salary of $250 000 per episode (65 episodes), which makes 17 million dollars.
She also did The New Adventures of Old Christine, a show that lasted for 5 seasons and 88 episodes, for which she earned at least $150 000 per episode = 14 million dollars.
She was also a producer on that show and Veep, which surely increased her revenues considerably, included stakes in syndication. That could represent as much as what she earned as an actor on those shows = $30 million.
On top of all that, she has appeared before and after Seinfeld in more than 150 episodes of various TV shows and movies, for which she got paid. Let’s conservatively say she got paid an average $30 000 per such episode, that makes $4,5 million.
There are also endorsements deals, like the big campaign she did for Old Navy, and Clairol, ATT, Yes Network…
Let’s round that up to 5 million dollars.
All in all, Julia earned more than 150 millions dollars (adjusted) from her work as an actress and producer.
But that’s almost ridiculous compared to her family wealth.
Her father was billionaire Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, whose net worth was estimated at $3,4 billion in 2006. He passed away in 2016, probably leaving his fortune to his 4 children.
So Julia Louis-Dreyfus is doing just fine financially, one might say.