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Here’s How Much The Stars Of Southern Charm Are Actually Worth

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Charleston’s most photogenic socialites don’t all have the same size trust fund.

Southern Charm has spent six seasons selling viewers on antebellum mansions, sweet tea manners, and a cast that looks like it stepped out of a Ralph Lauren catalogue. But according to a breakdown of the cast’s finances heading into late 2018, the actual bank accounts behind those cocktail parties are wildly uneven. Some cast members are living off family real estate empires built decades ago; others are grinding out reality TV paychecks and side hustles just like everyone else.

• Bravo reportedly pays Southern Charm cast members around $25,000 per episode, but that base salary is where the similarities end.
• Patricia Altschul tops the cast with an estimated net worth between $20 million and $100 million, built through high-profile marriages, art dealing, and Charleston real estate.
• Thomas Ravenel, the former South Carolina State Treasurer turned commercial real estate developer, is estimated at roughly $6 million, while Shep Rose sits in the $4 million to $5 million range thanks to family “mailbox money” and hospitality investments.

The Old-Money Tier

Nobody on the cast out-earns Patricia Altschul, and it isn’t close. The show’s resident matriarch built her fortune the old-fashioned way — marrying well, dealing in fine art, and holding onto historic Charleston real estate that’s only appreciated with time. Her estimated net worth of $20 million to $100 million dwarfs everyone else in the friend group, and it’s the reason she can drop one-liners about the help without blinking.

Shep Rose and Thomas Ravenel round out the wealthy end of the cast, though their money comes from different places. Shep’s fortune, pegged around $4 million to $5 million, traces back to established family real estate holdings and hospitality ventures rather than anything he built from scratch on camera. Ravenel, meanwhile, parlayed his time as South Carolina’s State Treasurer into a commercial real estate development career worth an estimated $6 million.

Patricia Altschul’s estimated fortune of $20 million to $100 million puts her in a different financial universe than the rest of the Southern Charm cast combined.

The Working Cast

Cameran Eubanks came into Southern Charm with name recognition from MTV’s The Real World, and she’s since built an estimated $1.5 million net worth through a mix of Bravo paychecks, brand endorsements, and her day job as a Charleston real estate agent. It’s a reminder that not everyone on this show inherited their money — some of them are out there closing on houses between filming schedules.

Craig Conover took a similar hands-on route. He walked away from a law career to build Sewing Down South, his home goods and decorative pillow business, leveraging his reality fame into an estimated net worth of $400,000 to $1 million. Austen Kroll is doing something similar on the beverage side, using his Kings Calling Brewing Co. venture to build equity in the craft beer space, though his estimated net worth still sits toward the lower end of the cast.

Modest Fortunes, Southern Pedigree

Kathryn Dennis comes from some of the most prominent political bloodlines in South Carolina, but her personal net worth is far more modest than her family name suggests, especially next to the older money in the cast. Chelsea Meissner, the former Survivor contestant, makes her actual living as a Charleston hair stylist, with her reality TV appearances functioning more as a supplement than a primary income stream. Both cases underscore the split running through the entire show — a pedigree doesn’t automatically translate to a bank balance, and reality TV money alone doesn’t stretch nearly as far as fans might assume.

The gap between Patricia Altschul’s estimated $100 million ceiling and Kathryn Dennis’s far smaller personal fortune says everything about how differently “Southern wealth” gets distributed even within the same friend group. It’s the same split that shows up across Bravo’s whole roster of reality docs — plenty of on-screen glamour, a lot less consistency in what’s actually sitting in the bank. Southern Charm just happens to be one of the more entertaining places to watch that math play out, right alongside other Bravo storylines like the fallout from Phaedra Parks’s divorce or the way certain reality stars treat their own castmates once the cameras start rolling.