What Is Jenna Ortega's Net Worth and 'Wednesday' Salary?

Cosmopolitan

3 days ago

Considering Wednesday is one of Netflix's most popular shows literally ever (already binged the first four episodes of season 2, hbu?), Jenna Ortega should be worth millions. Which...she is! At just 22 years old, Jenna has multiple millions of dollars sitting in her bank account—not exactly shocking because, while the rest of us were struggling to get through algebra (STILL waiting for math to be useful IRL), she was out here making money.
Time to dig into Jenna's net worth, MUCH LIKE THING DUG HIS WAY INTO MY HEART 😍.
Tragically, this information isn't publicly confirmed, but there is info out there about what Netflix pays its stars in general. Let's use Stranger Things as an example, since it's also a series that blew up after its first season. According to Deadline, the core cast of kids made around $30,000 an episode during Stranger Things seasons 1 and 2. Of course, they were largely unknown at the time, while Jenna has a buncha credits to her name—so it seems safe to assume she made north of that amount.
More significant is Jenna's potential salary going forward now that Wednesday has established itself as one of Netflix's most profitable and popular shows. The cast of Stranger Things negotiated their salaries ahead of season 3, when they started earning $250,000 an episode (or ~$2 million per season).
SoOoOOoOOOo, yeah, Jenna likely got a major raise as well.
With a $100 million budget, you'd guess that Jenna got paid preeeetty well for the highly-anticipated sequel flick—and you would be right!
Rumor has it that she earned $750K for her role as Astrid Deetz, which is not too shabby, if you ask me.
Jenna went from having a modest following to gaining 10 million new Instagram followers in just 10 days upon the release of Wednesday season 1.
PopCrave charted the growth rate of her account, and as you can see, she had 9.39 million followers on the day Wednesday premiered and 20-ish million followers 10 days later. (For what it's worth, Jenna has nearly 40 million followers at the time of this story's publication).
As for her per-post pay? There's some reporting that Jenna has to ability to earn more than $78,000 per sponsored post, but at the rate her following is growing, that number is probably already out of date...which means she's probs making *a lot* of moolah as the brand ambassador for Adidas, Christian Dior, and Neutrogena, among tons of other brands.
Oh, and FYI, Jenna had this to say about her approach to Insta in a November 2022 interview with The Face: "I have to look at my social media as a business platform because I think it's unhealthy for everyone involved. I'd hate to be married to it. I don't want to be worried about what I look like on there, or how people perceive me on there. It's just work! It's just work posts. I'll talk about whatever and then people can look at me as an actor, not an influencer, and I can focus on that."
According to Celebrity Net Worth, that'd be $5 million, which is up a whopping $2 million (!!) since 2022. But due to Jenna being relatively new to the A++ list, there isn't a ton of information about how she made that money—i.e. what she's earned per project.
But just check out her resume; Jenna's had roles on everything from Scream and Scream VI to Death of a Unicorn to Sabrina Carpenter's "Taste" music video. Gonna assume she gets paid pretty well!