{"id":8963,"date":"2026-07-15T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/the-staggering-amount-howard-stern-makes-per-minute\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:04:07","slug":"the-staggering-amount-howard-stern-makes-per-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/the-staggering-amount-howard-stern-makes-per-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"The staggering amount Howard Stern makes per minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F07%2F134483099.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Howard Stern will still be earning a hefty paycheck despite cutting down his SiriusXM show to one episode per week and laying off employees. <\/p>\n<p>The radio titan renewed his contract with SiriusXM for the \u201cHoward Stern Show\u201d with a <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/16\/celebrity-news\/howard-sterns-future-with-siriusxm-revealed-after-retirement-rumors\/\">three-year deal in December 2025<\/a>. Though the amount for his current contract hasn\u2019t been disclosed, he is coming off of an eye-popping $500 million deal over five years.<\/p>\n<p>Going off of Stern\u2019s previous yearly salary of $100 million a year and his four-hours-a-week radio show, he is earning roughly $8,000 per minute. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Howard Stern (seen above in 2006) will be making a fortune this fall on SiriusXM.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Stern (seen above in the studio in 2005) could be making over $8,000 per minute. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>However, Stern is likely making more a minute, as the radio personality takes a lengthy summer break every season in addition to other vacations throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>We also reported that around a dozen staffers from his SiriusXM show were let go over Zoom on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The radio legend (photographed above in 2025) re-signed with SiriusXM last December. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Stern (seen above onstage in 2023) previously made $100 million a year over five years. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019re told the staffers were sent home immediately after the call and will receive severance packages based on how long they\u2019ve been with the network.<\/p>\n<p>Stern did keep a team of veteran producers because he \u201cjust doesn\u2019t need that much content anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of airtime will be filled with tape from his archive. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Page Six exclusively reported that Stern (pictured here with Cher in 2024) is only going to be on air once a week starting in the fall. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for SiriusXM<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Around a dozen staffers were recently let go via Zoom. (Stern is seen above in 2014.) <span class=\"credit\">Kevin Mazur<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stern caused a panic last year when he announced to his staff last Labor Day evening that he wouldn\u2019t be back on the air as expected.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly skipped episodes due to \u201cfrustration\u201d over contract negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>When he did <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/16\/celebrity-news\/howard-sterns-future-with-siriusxm-revealed-after-retirement-rumors\/\">re-up for another three years<\/a> in December, he said on his show, \u201cI am happy to announce that I have figured out a way to have it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Stern (photographed above in 2016) had been working three days a week. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Stern (seen above with Carrie Underwood in 2023) first signed with SiriusXM in 2004. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for SiriusXM<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMore free time and continuing to be on the radio,\u201d he added, explaining that the new contract will give him more \u201cflexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do like my days off. You know me, I\u2019m never bored. I\u2019m busy every minute,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n<p>Stern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/sirius-pays-stern-83-mil-127586\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inked his first deal<\/a> with Sirius Satellite Radio in 2004, netting him $500 million over five years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>He has been on the radio since the \u201970s. (Photographed in the studio in 1983.) <span class=\"credit\">NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Robin Quivers (photographed here with Stern in 1995) has been his longtime sidekick. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The contract reportedly included production, staff and stock awards. He has been on the radio airwaves since the \u201970s, for most of that time alongside Robin Quivers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2011\/03\/22\/howard-sterns-production-company-suing-sirius-xm\/\">He sued Sirius<\/a> in 2011, claiming they had reneged on paying him stock awards tied to subscriber growth.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Sirius did not reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/15\/celebrity-news\/the-staggering-amount-howard-stern-makes-per-minute\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Stern will still be earning a hefty paycheck despite cutting down his SiriusXM show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/134483099.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}