One of the things that makes a lot of us want to become celebrities is the fact that it usually comes with whole lotta money. Yep, celebs don’t seem to have the worries normal people do, like how to pay for electricity.

However, being a successful celebrity also means you need to work your way up against unbelievable odds. So, no wonder they can have an unbelievable fortune with careers such as this. Just check out this list to find out what it is they do, and what earned them their success.

Mark Wahlberg – $300M

Marky Mark, or Mark Wahlberg as he is better known today, was previously a rising talent, in the ’90s, and even modeled for Calvin Klein at one point. He later became an enormously successful actor and now has a net worth of $300 million.

However, it took Mark a couple of decades of hard and dedicated work in acting. He was in movies such as Boogie Nights, Planet of the Apes, The Departed, two of the Transformers movies, and many more.  Mark is also known on the web for his killer training regime and he even posted his daily routine online.

Ron Howard – $160M

Ron Howard has acquired a pretty big fortune since he first began his career. Howard rose to fame portraying Opie Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show and then for his role as Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days. He actually left the sitcom in order to pursue a career behind the camera. Howard became one of the most famous directors of our time with films such as Cocoon and A Beautiful Mind (which got him an Academy Award for Best Director). His most recent project was the 2018 movie Solo: Star Wars Story. Ron has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.