Gordon Ramsay Pulled In As Much Money As Beyoncé This Year

Forbes announced in its annual celebrity 100 list, earlier this week, that both Beyoncé Knowles and Gordon Ramsay made a whopping $54 million this year.

Gordon and Beyoncé tied for the 34th spot of highest paid celebrities, and you may have already started to ask yourself, how did a chart-topping R&B singer, and a loud-mouth chef make the same amount of mullah?

Well, I’m asking myself the same question and also wondering how Taylor Swift came in the number one spot with $170 million, but anywho, Bey has done 19 concerts, raking in about $3.9 million per performance, plus endorsements coming in slightly above her rapper hubby Jay-Z who earned $53.5 million.

Let’s talk about Ramsay, though. Sure he owns over 50 restuarants across the globe, but that’s just a fraction of his earnings. According to Forbes, the big bucks really come from his TV shows. The magazine said, “Ramsay has managed to parlay his chops at the stove to chops in front of the camera,” and stated that high ratings week after week, affords Gordon a salary of over $400,000 an episode.

People are definitely surprised as to how a Chef can make as much money as the all mighty Queen Bey, and they have gone to Twitter to post their reactions:

So both Gordon Ramsay & Beyoncé earned $54m in 2016…thats a yelling chef & a booty shaking singer.I am in the wrong business😔 #FORBESLIST

— Florentina Aranél (@flotyna) July 13, 2016

Fun fact: Gordon Ramsay makes as much money as Beyoncé in a year (54 million) and he just yells at people. #KingG

— Gio Doxtator (@gio_doxtator) July 13, 2016

I agree that Gordon Ramsay should probably not be earning as much as Beyonce. I’m just not sure it’s fair to call him mediocre

— Skittles (@swagprefect) July 13, 2016

Gordon was the only chef to make the list this year. Can we really throw shade for his amount of financial success? Regardless of the tweets, Gordon Ramsay is winning, and with all that money, I’m sure he couldn’t care less what we think and how much Beyoncé has.

beyonce screengrab via YouTube