Context

Medium article made with this dataset:

Making Beautiful Racing Bar Animations for YouTube:
https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/making-beautiful-racing-bar-animations-for-youtube-869e55073547

YouTube videos made with this dataset:

Highest earning personalities: https://youtu.be/Lf8V85mOkdM
Highest earning musicians: https://youtu.be/omTlzSCHDOc
Highest earning comedians: https://youtu.be/otnMVXe_jJ4
Who earns more, Actors or Directors?: https://youtu.be/l0YLzclnKwE
Forbes celebrity 100 since 2005: https://youtu.be/UAwGSOdr5Ko
Highest earning actors: https://youtu.be/ea5cCx5SqCE

This dataset contains salary/earning information of celebrities including actors, athletes, tv personalities since 2005. Data was gathered from the historical "Celebrity 100" lists of Forbes magazine.

It contains 4 columns and 1647 rows (number of rows will be increased each year). As of 2021, the dataset covers a span of 16 years of celebrity earnings since 2005. Unfortunately, no information was found before 2005.

Data was collected from various sources and organised in Python/Jupyter Notebook stack. Mainly the archives of Forbes is used, also some auxiliary sources like The Daily Telegraph newspaper archives are used.