Latest Update: Rhett McLaughlin's Total Wealth - Is the Star a Billionaire? Net Worth 2026: Career Earnings & Assets

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What is Rhett McLaughlin's net worth?

Rhett McLaughlin is an American YouTube personality, comedian, and actor who has a net worth of $20 million. He is best known for being a founder of the YouTube partnership Rhett and Link. Along withLink Neal,the duo hosts a number of YouTube shows, most notablyGood Mythical Morning. They are among the most popular andhighest-paid YouTubers in the world. In 2020 alone, they earned a combined $20 million. Their business, Mythical Entertainment Co., employs 100 people. They operate a fan club where fans pay $10-20 per month to access exclusive content.

Early Life

Rhett McLaughlin was born in Macon, Georgia, in October 1977. He met Link Neal, his collaborator on the Rhett & Link YouTube channel, on the first day of first grade at Buies Creek Elementary School in 1984. His family had just recently moved to Buies Creek, North Carolina, from Macon, Georgia. Many years later, they wrote a song and made a documentary about their meeting called "Looking for Ms. Locklear." The two boys were required to stay in during recess as a punishment because both of them had written swear words on their desks. They bonded over this and drew mythical creatures such as unicorns, hence the name of their YouTube show, "Good Mythical Morning."

When Rhett and Link were 14, they wrote a screenplay called "Gutless Wonders" and started making a film based on it. They only shot a couple of scenes and never finished the film. The screenplay was read years later during a number of episodes of "Good Mythical Morning." In high school, Rhett and Link shot a 25-minute parody of the story of Oedipus Rex. Rhett was Oedipus, and Link was his father's servant. Also, in high school, the friends were members of a punk rock band called The Wax Paper Dogz.

Rhett holds the record at his old high school for most 3-pointers scored in a single basketball season, 77, at Harnett Central High School to this day.

Rhett started college at North Carolina State University in 1996. Link was his roommate in college. Rhett studied civil engineering and graduated magna cum laude in December 2000. Rhett worked at Black & Veatch for a while after college before quitting to pursue their YouTube channel full-time.

YouTube Career

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