Hunter Schafer was born on 31 December 1998 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the eldest of four children of a Presbyterian minister. Nothing in her first eighteen years pointed at a screen career.

What it did point at was drawing. She studied visual art at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and won a place at Central Saint Martins in London. Deferring that place is the hinge of her finances: she set aside art school for a television part, and every figure here follows from it.

Her first income came from fashion. Signed to Elite as a teenager, she walked for Dior, Rick Owens, Miu Miu, Marc Jacobs and Thierry Mugler between 2017 and 2019; The Business of Fashion has tracked her as a fashion figure since. Runway and editorial at that level pay low four figures a show, and we put those three years at $100,000 to $250,000.

Before any of it she was a campaigner. At seventeen she was a named plaintiff in the the American Civil Liberties Union challenge to North Carolina’s House Bill 2. That paid nothing and mattered enormously: it is why casting directors knew her name before she had read a line.

Sam Levinson cast her as Jules Vaughn in HBO’s Euphoria with no professional acting experience. The series ran eight episodes in 2019, two specials across the turn of 2020, eight more in 2022 and eight in 2026, and she co-wrote and co-executive produced the Jules-centred special — a credit that turns a hired performer into part-owner of the material.

Her Euphoria money is our estimate, and it tells the story of her rise. Season one at a newcomer’s HBO rate of $25,000 to $30,000 an episode is $200,000 to $240,000; the specials plus the writing and producing fee add $90,000 to $150,000; season two, by which point she was the show’s second-most discussed performer, at $75,000 to $150,000 an episode is $600,000 to $1.2 million. Season three, which Deadline dated to 12 April 2026 and Variety reviewed as an eight-episode run, is what changed her balance sheet: at a top-billed $350,000 to $500,000 an episode it is worth $2.8 million to $4 million. Euphoria alone is $3.65 million to $5.6 million.

Film is where the rate was set. She played Tigris Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in 2023, a supporting part in a prequel that took about $362 million worldwide according to Box Office Mojo. A named role in a franchise instalment at her then standing is a $250,000 to $600,000 job on our estimate, and the picture made her bankable rather than merely famous.

She carried a film outright the following year in Cuckoo, the Alpine horror Variety reviewed out of Berlin, which we put at $200,000 to $450,000. Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness the same year was an ensemble indie at $60,000 to $150,000. In 2026 she played Hilda in David Lowery’s Mother Mary opposite Anne Hathaway, a casting Deadline first reported and which Box Office Mojo records at a worldwide gross near $3 million; a supporting part at that budget is $150,000 to $400,000. Her four features come to $660,000 to $1.6 million, making screen acting a $4.3 million to $7.2 million gross career so far.

Jules made her one of the most recognisable performers of her generation before she was twenty-five, and of a particular kind: she reads as a fashion figure and a screen actor at once, which is why beauty houses pay for her.

She has been deliberate about what she will not take, telling The Hollywood Reporter that she turns down roles written as trans parts because she wants to be cast as an actor rather than a category. The Hunger Games, Lanthimos and Lowery credits show it has not narrowed her work.

This is the second pillar of her income and nearly the size of the first. She has been a global ambassador for Shiseido’s makeup division since 2020, her longest-running deal; a multi-market beauty ambassadorship at her level runs $300,000 to $700,000 a year, so six years is $1.8 million to $4.2 million on our estimate.

Prada has used her as the face of campaign work including the Galleria series, which we put at $200,000 to $500,000 a campaign, and Cosmetics Business reported her appointment as the face of Mugler’s Angel fragrance line, worth $500,000 to $1.2 million a year at that scale. The three together give endorsement income since 2020 of $2.7 million to $6.4 million gross, assuming the Shiseido and Mugler agreements are annual retainers rather than single shoots, which is how houses that size normally contract an ambassador.

Schafer’s income comes from acting fees and beauty retainers, both of them paid to her rather than to a company she owns.

Her one proprietary interest is authorial. The writing and executive-producer credit on the Jules special gives her a participation in that hour rather than a one-off fee. It is small next to the acting fees, but a writing credit keeps paying in library and residual terms long after a season airs.

Schafer has worked between Los Angeles and New York through the Euphoria years, and we put her property equity, net of mortgage, at $600,000 to $1.5 million. The timing matters more than the number: her largest cheques are from 2026 and are too recent to have become real estate.

The rest is contractual rather than physical — residuals across three Euphoria seasons and four features, the participation on the special she co-wrote, and the unearned balance of the beauty retainers. Nothing points to art or cars large enough to move a figure at this level.