Childish Gambino’s Bag Is All Grown Up: A Detailed Look at His Net Worth

The Breakdown: Childish Gambino, or Donald Glover, has made a killing in the film, television, and music industries throughout his career. We have the latest on his net worth and how he’s expanding the depth of his bag.

Childish Gambino is one of the blog era’s finest. His second studio album, Because the Internet, is regarded as one of the era’s best conceptual projects. The album was accompanied by a short film and a 72-page screenplay titled Clapping for the Wrong Reasons. It showed that Bino wasn’t your average multi-talent artist. With skills in writing, directing, and music, we’ve figured out what fans have been wondering for over a decade: just how big is Bino’s bag?

Childish Gambino, or Donald Glover, depending on his credits, has an estimated net worth of $40 million (per Celebrity Net Worth). Per the site, Glover earned over $35 million just between September 2018 and September 2019. He’s been a writer and actor for multiple comedy shows, produced a hit series on FX, and made a killing in the hip-hop industry.

Gambino has been making music as long as he’s been on screen. The Community actor released his first studio album, Camp, in 2011. The album was seen as experimental and radical, and the start of a great career by his niché fans in the hip-hop scene.

His 2013 album Because the Internet is what truly placed Gambino in conversations. With themes of maturing from adolescence, the effects of digital isolation, and the emptiness of fame, it received critical acclaim and proved the Stone Mountain native’s mettle during the blog era.

In 2016, Gambino dropped his highest-charted album, Awaken, My Love!. The album was received exceptionally well, and the lead single “Redbone” was certified quintuple platinum by the RIAA. The album showed the rapper-singer’s ability to bend sound even further and expand on his experimentation with genres like rock.

2018 marked his biggest year in the mainstream limelight with "This is America." The powerful imagery of its music video and lyrics about systemic racism and gun violence caused it to become the year's biggest hit. The song won four Grammy Awards, making Gambino the first hip-hop artist to win Song of the Year and Record of the Year. It also became the first rap song to win both of these awards.

In 2020, Gambino released an unfinished version of his 2024 album Atavista, 3.15.20. The unmastered copy was received much better than the reissue. He also released Bando Stone & the New World, a soundtrack to an upcoming film of the same name, in 2024. Its lead single, “Lithonia,” received incredible acclaim and even became a trending sound on TikTok.

The soundtrack marks Glover’s final album under the Childish Gambino moniker, as he stated in a New York Times interview that, “It’s not fulfilling. And I just felt like I didn’t need to build in this way anymore.” While it’s unclear when Bando Stone & the New World is set to hit theaters, Glover will have plenty of film and television credits before its release.

As one of the youngest writers ever hired by the network, Glover wrote for Tina Fey’s 30 Rock show on NBC. He won Writers Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Glover’s work as a writer and occasional guest on 30 Rock led him to fellow NBC show Community, produced by Dan Harmon. He served primarily as an actor in the role of Troy Barnes for the series, but also lent his writing skills from time to time.

Glover began working on his show Atlanta for FX in 2013. The show premiered in 2016 to outstanding critical acclaim. Donald Glover created, directed, wrote, executive-produced, and starred in the show, earning him major recognition. He won Golden Globes for Best Comedy Series and Best Actor, along with two Primetime Emmys for Lead Actor and Directing. His Emmy for directing made history, marking him as the first Black person to ever win in that category.

The artistic multihyphenate is one hell of a businessman too. After leaving FX, he signed an eight-figure deal with Amazon. According to Billboard, the deal allows him to executive produce his projects, starting with his 2019 film Guava Island starring himself and Rihanna. Other projects that have already been released include a new Mr. and Mrs. Smith television series and a black comedy horror miniseries titled Swarm.