How much is Sommer Ray worth?
| Net Worth: | $8 Million |
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| Profession: | Professional Model |
| Date of Birth: | September 15, 1996 (age 26) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 6 in (1.7 m) |
About Sommer Ray
Sommer Ray the 25-year-old American fitness model was already very famous for making videos on the now defunct short-form video hosting platform, Vine. She then took to YouTube and today, she is considered one of the most important young influencers on social media websites. She has over 26M followers on Instagram, which is almost the same amount as 50 Cent.
Born in Denver Colorado, she was always a fitness freak and achieved an incredible body shape from an early age. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California where she producers her content. Sommer Ray has earned income equal to an estimated salary of $2 million dollars per year, since 2019.
Both her parents were fitness fanatics and her mother is now also a fitness model on Instagram. “My mom and dad are both huge into fitness and I followed in their footsteps,” Sommer Ray told Galore. She is sister to three siblings. Sommer moved often in her childhood because of her parent’s busy work schedules and learned a lot about hard work and fitness from them.
She received her early education from a local school in Denver and attended high school as well. After that she dropped out of formal education and began to work out ways of making money on her own.
“i dropped out of highschool freshman year from being constantly hated on.. being bullied is something i’ve never really talked about a lot because i feel like it’s “cliché” but definitely will if you guys want me to tell my story,” Sommer Ray has posted on Instagram.
Being bullied may suck at the time, sure did. But the truth is those who admit to themselves that they were bullied and face their adversity head on allow it to transform them in ways we don’t fully understand. One thing is for sure though, those who don’t look at things as they are, like Sommer does, will face harder challenges later on. “Do the hard things while they are still easy,” Lao Tzu said.
Problems that you are experiencing in your life need to be faced up to and gone through, because, believe it or not, problems like having been bullied don’t just go away. And in fact, while you are still not admitting that you were bullied, others can take advantage of you more easily. There are predators who can subtly feel out and exploit your emotional problems and conflicting thoughts and feelings. And sorry, but it only gets harder the longer you leave it.
Trying to make improvements in your life like losing weight, building a business or learning to go out on dates, all become harder if you carry with you emotional weight.
Better to direct look at what is causing you emotional pain and resolve to first admit what happened, forgive yourself for it and make the relevant phone calls and send the necessary emails to make it known so you can remove the block in your mind, and also in your life.
In Eastern philosophies it is considered true that what is going on in your mind will project into your life. And so if you are having problems in your mind, wherever you go they will be reflected in your life and circumstances. This is why practices like sitting on the floor are helpful because it is boring and it is painful. Which are very helpful arisings for bringing out your problems front and center and so you can look at them and deal with them head on. In this way you can remove the block.
Once the block has been shifted, you can actually begin to use your past experiences of being bullied and other adversities that you have suffered. To feed the furnace of your success. Realizing, for example, that having gone through what you did developed your character and built up your strength and resilience. And being pushed away helped you form a unique and interesting personality. And for Sommer Ray, a personality that sells, too.
Sommer Ray Becoming Sommer Ray
As you can imagine she has an intense amount of male followers because of her tremendous work ethic in the gym. She also has female followers looking to follower her form. It’s these followers who started to contribute toward paying her rent and other expenses through clicks and views on advertisements that roll with her fresh new content. And before long, made her a member of what Tim Ferris calls “the new rich”.
Sommer’s journey to stardom and riches started with her fame on Instagram and Vine. She has an estimated net worth of about $8 million which for her age is amazing. More amazing is how she got there and her instincts for what her audience wants.
A core reason for her becoming so rich is her Youtube career. She was able to get millions and millions of views faster than just about anyone on the planet because of her unique personality. Her sparkiness came across in her videos and made her addictive to her fans. Couple this with her involvement in different famous groups, and her links with famous Youtubers, and one can see why the money began rolling in. She appears with Youtubers like Logan Paul and back in 2017, she dated YouTube star RiceGum.
Sommer Ray has also featured in television series. While probably not always paid it has added to her fame loads and translated into added wealth by growing her thriving audience. She appeared on TV on that MTV show Wild’n Out, it’s hosted by Nick Cannon where celebrity guest stars lead teams of comics in a series of comedy challenges. She also has a fitness app, Evolve Fitness, as well as her own clothing line.
Most of all though Sommer Ray has earned literally millions of dollars promoting other people’s products on her Instagram page. These girls are banking hard, yeah those girls that you see falling all over Dan Bilzerian, they have a life after Bilzerian ends and it includes getting paid A TON for making Instagram posts that sell.
Sommer started her journey towards fame by making short videos with her mother on Vine. The kinds of stuff she was putting out got noticed and soon she was growing her audience. She gained a lot of followers because of her intense workouts and attractive body. From there her fame actually skyrocketed as she became the beloved Sommer Ray we know her as today. Nowadays she mostly posts about her workouts and personal life as well as motivational quotes, and answers questions her audience wants to know.
In 2013, she started her Vine journey and it blew up making her famous faster than just about anyone in history. With all these new followers, she immediately realized that she had to take advantage of her opportunity and started Instagram modeling.
She knew that if she let it sit she may let the fear kick in or suffer from the dreaded paralysis of analysis. So instead she threw her proverbial “hat over the wall” and then had to scale that wall to go get it. She put all of her efforts into her Instagram page putting up pictures of herself immediately. Capitalizing on her strengths before other girls could say “burpee”. Plus with her unique personality and story which encapsulates a young California fitness girl making her way in the world. It attracted many more people because it appealed to a greater number of audiences.
Sommer Ray gained over 19 million followers over the course of a few years by posting about her fitness routines and modeling her extremely attractive body. Today that number sits at over 26 million.
She also has a Youtube channel simply named Sommer Ray where she uploads videos about her lifestyle and her workouts as well as her modeling shoots for her fans to see.
On Youtube alone, she has more than 1.8 million subscribers which also plays an important role in her fame. Not to mention her profitability. This girl has made hundreds of thousands of dollars from clicks and views on her ads alone. She only has 83 videos published, some she has taken down, but the quality is there and they are optimized for the Youtube search engine and more importantly, they connect with her audience.
A major contributing factor for her success is collaborations with other Youtubers. She became a member of the famous YouTube collaboration called Cloutgang. This group of famous Youtubers features founder, Faze Banks, FaZe Rug, Alissa Violet – Former girlfriend of Jake Paul, Amar Koomz, Ugly God, and the popular Vietnamese Youtuber RiceGum.
The group was created as a response to Jake Paul and his former primarily online video group and music group called Team 10. Sommer is often seen collaborating with the group members and other famous YouTubers in her Youtube videos, she is also seen with the Pauls.
Another reason for her fame is the Youtube relationship that she had with the famous Vietnamese Youtuber, Bryan Le, more popularly known as Ricegum. She made a few videos with him that gained massive popularity because of social media’s intense love with drama, romance and all things PDA. Finally, she officially ended ties with him in 2018 and they still remain as good friends. All of these things and what looks like an attitude of gratitude ascended her to incredible fame and fortune. Oh yeah, as well as her booming backside that looks like it could make Nicki Minaj jealous.
Sommer Ray is one of the most successful fitness models in the world right now. Her approach to media and realizing what attracts audiences and sticking to delivering that, and nothing else, is a core reason for her success. She developed her attractive body through hard work and when that was near perfect used that same work ethic to capture an audience online. First with Vine but when that platform fell through she hit it so much bigger on Instagram that people couldn’t even believe it.
Not only did she reach new heights of fame she started making a ton of money with sponsored content on the Instagram platform. The all things Hollywood website, The Things, estimate that Sommer Ray makes $86,600 per sponsored post published on her Instagram page, and that was way back in 2020.
$86,600 dollars for posts on Instagram is A LOT more than what one should expect as a publisher of Adsense on Youtube or on a website. I like the Adsense model though, because it reduces any conflict of interest between the end user and oneself. That’s why I don’t even intend on publishing a book, I would rather eventually just have everything on this blog where it can be accessed free and the ads simply ride along with the content.
Along with an awareness of her audience, Sommer Ray has remained consistent over the years even through troubling times. She has constantly remained in the ongoing dramas on Youtube, like real life episodes of Friends, but with a better plot line or narrative.
Her success stemmed from her love of fitness and she has helped millions transform their lives as they follow her routines and form in her videos. I think it is that passion that she developed over years of training her body — that grew so much — that she could suddenly channel it into her other pursuits. Literally bursting with energy and helping people from day one, she was somebody that people at home were inspired by and they follow her to this day.
Ray’s Total Net Worth
Sommer Ray has earned estimated total career income of $16 million dollars from her career on YouTube. As Ray lives in the state of California, she will have had to pay around 49% in taxes on her career income. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $8.16 million dollars, having paid $7.84 million dollars in taxes.
Sommer Ray is not married and has no children. In her personal life she has likely spent $800,000 of her career earnings but also earned $750,000 million dollars from her investments. She will have also had to pay around $500,000 in business costs. Therefore, it is estimated that Sommer Ray has a net worth of a rounded $8 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Sommer Ray’s secret to success, fame, and riches is not only her body but also her go-getter attitude along with skills in marketing and performing on screen. She knew when and where to invest her efforts and did so immediately before fear or complacency had even a chance to set in.
As a model she has earned every single one of her followers and lives her life and develops her career- with patience, dedication and hard work. It doesn’t take 5 minutes to get there, but it doesn’t take a lifetime either. One can look and learn from a person like this that success demands effort, and effort requires discipline and nobody is going to give you that. That is only yours to take.
Sporadic effort gets you nowhere with a disciplined approach you win.
