Sam The Cooking Guy Net Worth – Sources of Income, Earnings

Sam The Cooking Guy Net Worth

Samuel D Zien, known as Sam the Cooking Guy, has witnessed immense popularity as a Canadian-born television cook, YouTuber, restaurateur, and cookbook author, based in San Diego, California.

According to the 2024 estimates, Sam The Cooking Guy Net Worth is $4 million. Explore the most recent updates regarding his earnings and other details.

Sam the Cooking Guy mentions that he loves helping the viewers make their food life better and to entertain. The videos he posts are usually for easy-to-make recipes, kitchen basics. The goal is to show that cooking doesn’t have to be hard, rather it has to be delicious.

Real name	Samuel D Zien
Sam The Cooking Guy Net Worth	$4 million
Birthday	7 August 1959
Birthplace	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Age	64
Height	5 ft 8 in ( Approx 1.73m)
Weight	78 Kg (172 Pounds)
Nationality	Canadian
Profession	Chef; YouTuber; TV Producer

Sam The Cooking Guy Estimated Earnings

Sam The Cooking Guy monthly earnings, as per our findings, is $30K. That being said, Sam The Cooking Guy yearly earnings are $360K.

Sources of Income

Sam The Cooking Guy doesn’t rely on a single income source as he believes that a single source isn’t enough to keep his life going. So, below we have listed the different income sources that bring him a decent revenue.

Revenue from ads running on YouTube

One of the common points of curiosity among viewers is How Much Money Does Sam The Cooking Guy Earn On YouTube? The cooking niche yields a moderate revenue and in this regard, the YouTube content creator earns $1 – $5 per 1000 monetized views after YouTube takes its cut. From YouTube alone Sam The Cooking Guy earns $15K a month.

Product sales, endorsements, and sponsorships

YouTuber and restaurateur Sam The Cooking Guy promotes his own products, accepts sponsorships, or generates revenue with affiliate commissions. The sales of his cookbook earn him a huge revenue. From brand endorsements and sponsorships as well as the sales of his cookbooks, he earns around $3K a month.

His official website is thecookingguy.com reveals a lot about his professional life as well. Sam the Cooking Guy’s official website shopstcg.com sells a range of kitchen products and additional items as well.

The Sam The Cooking Guy website shopstcg.com and thecookingguy.com thus earn him around $3K a month. Sam Zien, the author of the critically acclaimed cookbook Sam the Cooking Guy: Recipes with Intentional Leftovers sells the cookbook. It has sold over 3K copies through Amazon only.

Other Sam Zien cookbooks include Awesome Recipes and Kitchen Shortcuts, Just a Bunch of Recipes, and Just Grill This! That said, the revenue generated from the sales of these books is also around $2.5K a month.

Merchandise available in the Sam Zien store includes T-shirts, Hoodies, Paper bags, Caps, Mugs, Posters, Knives, essential kitchen items, and Phone Covers.

With around 278K Instagram followers, Sam The Cooking Guy earns around $500 – $5,000 per post.

Sam The Cooking Guy Restaurants

Sam’s restaurants in his hometown of San Diego are the best places for lunch, dinner, and takeaways.

Sam Zien opened his first restaurant in collaboration with Grain & Grit near downtown San Diego in July 2018, known as Not Not Tacos, which is situated inside Little Italy Food Hall. The establishment contains Zien’s secret recipes for various traditional and non-traditional taco meat items such as salmon, Korean rib, pork, shrimp, and meatloaf.

Sam Zien’s second restaurant, Graze by Sam, established inside the Little Italy Food Hall, is another one of Sam’s most fabulous creations for cocktails and takeaways. Sam opened this restaurant in March 2020 but had to close this one temporarily due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic the same month.

Since the restaurant business isn’t operating now, so he doesn’t make money from it as of now but there are chances that he might earn in the future.

Television Series

Sam Zien, a television star, produced various programs for local San Diego television stations, and County Television Network (CTN) did another series called Just Grill This! and appeared on NBC’s The Today Show. As a renowned icon on TV, Sam got recognition and a decent income.

Why we are so sure about the information we have stated is for the reason that the amount is calculated through the combination of our robust methodology, data collection, and algorithm. Editors and industry professionals review them before publishing so that there is no false information for our readers.

Spending and Investments

The television cook and cookbook author chooses to live a luxurious lifestyle because he wishes to utilize the amount earned behind living a good life. That said, we have concluded that he owns a luxurious house in San Diego. Also, we are trying to find out whether he has additional houses or not.

YouTube details

Sam The Cooking Guy bio

Sam Zien, born August 7, 1959, better known online as SAM THE COOKING GUY, has earned tremendous fame as a Canadian-American YouTuber and Chef known for his YouTube channel, of which he shares a variety of different recipes, usually in 4k quality. Also,e he is known for a cooking show on the platform since 2011, first premiering his early series known as The Sam Livecast.

Throughout the years, the show transitioned to its current show format. He creates videos for easy-to-make recipes and kitchen basics. The goal is to show you that cooking doesn’t have to be hard but has to be delicious.

Early Life and Career Beginnings

Samuel D Zien, popularly known as Sam the Cooking Guy, was born on August 7, 1959, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian-born television cook, YouTuber, restaurateur, and cookbook author is based in San Diego, California. Sam worked as an executive for a pharmaceutical company prior to his work on television and cooking but quit that job to work on travel television, which was quickly derailed due to the events of 9/11.

The well paid cooking YouTube star then focused on a cooking show. After completing his own screening with different television states in and around the San Diego, California area, the cooking content creator and chef successfully landed a spot on a FOX channel for a 2-3 minute unpaid segment. With his segments getting nominated the station for a Regional Emmy, this changed, and Sam started getting paid for his work.

Television career

In January 2005, the well known cooking enthusiast and content creator Sam moved to County Television Network (CTN), Sam Diego’s public access television that offered him a 30-minute segment on their station. Different companies and sister channels of CTN helped his show reach different regions, and it became a sensational hit with viewers.

2008 details regarding his career mark that Sam appeared on NBC’s The Today Show in a segment in which he was continuously interrupted by the hosts. His response was, ‘Please, Can I talk? I watch the show every day, everybody has issues with a lot of chatter back here. Pay attention, one minute.’ The segment appeared on a clip on YouTube, and the viewers ended up applauding Sam’s stance against the NBC hosts.

YouTube career

On May 23, 2011, the YouTube star Sam launched his first YouTube series, known as The Sam Livecast, featuring food-related and other related subject videos. The team presented 200 live episodes, and after that, the production team switched to a live-to-tape format, which has been carried out every since. Videos are added to the channel three times throughout the week, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and they ensure that there is no particular theme or order of recipes released, and most are based on viewer requests.

Restaruants & cookbooks

Sam currently operates two restaurants, as stated above, Not Not Tacos and Graze by Sam the Cooking Guy, located in the Little Italy Food Hall in San Diego, California.

Not Tacos primarily serves Tacos and Mexican-style food while also offering healthy food choices, while Grazy by Sam the Cooking Guy primarily serves vegetarian and vegan options while also serving meat-friendly dishes. Sam has also earned tremendous recognition for having written three cookbooks over the course of the last ten years: Just a Bunch of Recipes (2008), Awesome Recipes and Kitchen Shortcuts (2010), and Just Grill This! (2011).

Awards & recognition

Sam has won over 15 Emmy awards and has written multiple cookbooks, and the success and recognition have been contributed by his video content made with companies, including Chosen Foods, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Bumble Bee Foods.

Family and Relationship Details

Regarding Sam The Cooking Guy family and parents, there are no details available. Cook and YouTuber Sam Zien, famous as Sam The Cooking Guy, is a husband; he’s the father of three teenage boys, and he has two dogs.

Regarding Sam The Cooking Guy wife, it can be said that he is married to his wife Kelly Zein, and the pair have kids together. Regarding his children, he has 3 children, and one of them is Max Zien.

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