Clayton Echard Made $97K on Cameo in One Year

Clayton Echard has a message for everyone wondering what he actually does for a living: he’s chilling — and making nearly six figures doing it.

The 33-year-old former Bachelor star stopped by the She’s All Bach podcast this week and dropped a number that made even his host do a double-take. In the last year alone, Echard has made roughly $97,500 on Cameo — the platform where fans pay celebrities for personalized video shoutouts.

“I have a revenue stream that pays more than a full-time job. It’s Cameos,” he said on the show. “I did 1,300 Cameos in the last year. So you can do the math on that. Multiply that by $75 a pop, you can see how much money I made from it. It’s a lot of money.”

Host Stefanie Parker did the math in real time — and her reaction said everything.

“Holy sh-t!” she exclaimed. Echard’s response? “Yeah, it’s good money.”

“If You Guys Only Knew What I’m Bringing In”

Echard has become something of a polarizing figure in Bachelor Nation since his Season 26 run in 2022 — partly because of the dramatic finale with Susie Evans (they reconciled, then split for good), but more recently because of the dance videos he posts online that have taken on a life of their own. Critics have questioned what exactly he does with his time. Turns out, he’s been laughing all the way to the bank.

“People are like, ‘All he does is dance all day. What’s his real job?’” he said. “I’m like, ‘If you guys only knew what I’m bringing in.’ Like, I’m chilling.”

He’s also made peace with not fitting a conventional mold. “If I’m getting paid to dance, you think I give a s***? OK, I’m not a rocket scientist. Like, whatever.”

And he’s clear-eyed about where the opportunity came from. “Why do I have Cameos? Because I was the Bachelor,” he said. “It brings opportunities. So I appreciate what I’ve gotten from the show. And again, that allows me to chase my passions or dance more.”

Before landing the lead role, Echard first appeared as a contestant on Michelle Young’s season of The Bachelorette in 2021.

The Gabby Windey Chapter

The dance videos haven’t been universally beloved in the franchise. Last year, former Bachelorette Gabby Windey went in hard on Echard’s content during an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast, calling him a “toe-looking ass, skinny jean-wearing” guy and suggesting his videos were, let’s say, not exactly appointment viewing.

“Have you seen his dancing videos? Oh my God, they will make you run,” Windey, 35, said at the time. “I’m going to send you one, and you [will] wish you didn’t have eyes.”

Echard fired back on Instagram, accusing Windey of “bullying” him over his appearance and defending his dancing as “harmless” content that had “inspired other people to get the courage to step out of their comfort zones and try something new.” He said she was setting a “really bad example.”

Now, with nearly $100K in Cameo earnings to point to, Echard seems pretty unbothered. “If this is my life,” he said, “that’s a great life.”