Here's how Kim Kardashian handles her money (2024)

Kim Kardashian West may often break the internet, but she'll never break the bank.

When her husband, rapper and the best living tweeter on the planet, Kanye West revealed on Twitter than he was $53 million in debt (and then backtracked to assure everyone that he wasn't actually in debt and still had enough money to buy his family furs), many wondered what that meant for Kim K's finances.

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But rest assured: Kim Kardashian is doing just fine financially. Better than fine, actually.

Reports this week claimed that Kardashian made $80 million off of her mobile game (spoiler alert: she probably didn't.) But she still has quite a bit of money in the bank, and she's clearly smart with her finances.

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So perhaps Kanye could learn a thing or two from how Kardashian handles her kar-cash.

Here are Kardashian's best financial decisions, as told through Kanye West lyrics.

"We made a million a minute, we made a million a minute, ah!"

Forbes said Kardashian"has monetized fame better than any other."

Kim is undoubtedly the most valuable member of the Kardashian family, which first entered the pop culture lexicon through late family patriarch Robert Kardashian's spot on O.J. Simpson's "dream team" roster of lawyers during his 1994 trial for allegedly murdering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.

But the family has pivoted the fame from the trial — and subsequent notoriety from Kim's 2007 sex tape — into an empire, cementing their A-list status last year with a $100 million dollar deal with E! to keep their reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians on the air for at least four more years.

In 2014, Kim alone raked in a cool $28 million, thanks to her paycheck from Keeping Up with the Kardashians, guest appearances on her sister's show Kourtney and Khloe Take the Hamptons, revenue from the Kardashian clothing store DASH (the original family business), and a variety of Kardashian-branded products, including self-tanner and a clothing line.

But that $28 million seems paltry in comparison to her 2015 income, which spiked to$52.5 million and earned her the number 33 spot on the magazine's annual list of richest celebrities.

The increase was due to her record-smashing mobile game, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, which accounted for more than half of her 2015 income.And though reports said that the game raised Kardashian around $80 million, Forbes estimates that she's probably only earned half of that over the two years the game has been on the market.

Her 2016 income will likely be higher, with the addition of another chart topping app (Kimoji, a line of Kim Kardashian-themed emojis that debuted at number one on Apple's app store).

"Let the champagne splash, let that [wo]man get cash."

But beyond her, um, traditional sources of income, Kardashian also cashes in for indulging in some of her favorite activities: red carpet events and posting selfies.

Yes, she literally profits off of everything.

Kardashian's book of selfies, aptly titled Selfish, apparently sold 125,000 copies (despite reports that it underperformed with only 32,000 sales.) So while profits probably were nowhere near her mobile game, she certainly put some spare change in the bank off the book.

And she also seemingly gets money for social media endorsem*nts. Kardashian does have extreme brand value on social media, with 63.2 million Instagram followersand41.6 million Twitter followers.

New York Magazinereported that Kardashian charges $10,000 per tweet for product endorsem*nts.

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But her social media monetization has landed her in hot water before: U.S. regulators ordered Kardashian to take down an endorsem*nt Instagram for a morning sickness pill Diclegis because the post was "misleading" and "failed to communicate any risk" associated with the drug's use.

And while sipping champagne will probably take a pretty penny out of your bank account, it means a pretty pay day for Kim K.Forbes said she made more money in 2014 in showing up to clubs, parties, and events than from the reality show.

"If you ain't no punk holla we want prenup."

While Kanye West once rapped about gold diggers, no one could accuse Kardashian of being one. Kardashian makes her own money, and apparently keeps it out of the hands of her husbands.

Before wedding NBA player Kris Humphries in an extravagent ceremony in 2011 (which apparentlybanked her $2 million), Kardashian's lawyers crafted an iron-clad prenup to protect her assets — she was the top earner in the marriage after all, since Humphries was only making between $8 million and $16 million.

That prenup came in handy 72 days later, when Kardashian filed for divorce and she enlisted Hollywood divorce lawyer extraordinaireLaura Wasserto keep her money out of Humphries' paws.

Humphries had demanded $7 million from Kim, but, per TMZ,he apparently walked away with nothing...and had to pay his own attorney's fees.

When Kardashian wed Kanye West in 2014, another prenup was prepared, according to The New York Daily News. Kanye does apparently make more than Kim though, with a 2015 net worth of $180 million.

And in the wake of the news that Kanye may or may not be in debt, an anonymous source close to the Kardashian familytoldPeoplethe stars keep their bank accounts separate.

Phew.

"Having' money's not everything, not having it is."

Though Kim K loves Givenchy, Balmain, and other high end brands, she's apparently very smart with how she spends her money.

In a July 2015 Q&A with MarketWatch, Kardashian explained that she knows the value of a dollar, and keeps her financial chops sharp to preserve her financial future.

Kardashian says that her parents taught her about credit, how to balance a checkbook, and how to save.

"I’m cheap about so many things. I look over everything. I would say I am pretty frugal," Kardashian said. "You know, I thought the more money I made, that I would spend more. And that’s the opposite. The more money that I make, the more I want to save."

So that means that when Kanye wanted to build a basketball court in their house, Kim put her foot down.

"I think we really respect each other’s opinions. We really talk things through. We really had to make the decision to wait on the basketball court,"she told MarketWatch."We’re redoing our house right now so it’s not always like a free-for-all-budget."

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