After a few months, Walt has earned more than $80 million from meth, and Skyler convinces him to stop. Walter leaves the meth business, and the kids return home.
Walter White may be fictional. But the $80 million profit he turned by selling meth in less than a year is a very realistic sum for a true-life drug kingpin. It's not until the last season of Breaking Bad that viewers learn just how much cash their favorite meth-making anti-hero has accumulated by cooking crank.
Skyler, do you know how much money I make in a day?" Walter's original deal with Gus was for $3,000,000 for 3 months work (though after he brings Jesse on board and agree to split 50/50 with him, Walter is earning $1,500,000 for 3 months work) Walter is making $16,666.67 per day at this original deal, and negotiating ...
No. The writer, Vince Gilligan, said over and over and in many interviews how the idea for Breaking Bad came to be. How does Walter White keep his money? Originally Walt kept his money in various parts around the house but when he met up with Saul Goodman he had Saul handle most of his money.
Walt's fortune is built on the premise that he's selling his meth at the modest price of about $60 a gram. That's spelled out in the fifth season episode "Hazard Pay," when Walt and his partners sell a 50 pound batch of their high quality blue meth for $1,379,560, after the commission that goes to street dealers.
Its distinct blue color allowed Walter White to power through the powerful drug empire and created a niche market for them-selves. After a certain point of time, Walter stopped counting the money his massive revenue stream was generating. His business was booming. Both Pinkman and White became millionaires.
After Breaking Bad
In an interview, show creator Vince Gilligan confirmed that Walter Jr. eventually received his father's drug money through Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz, which he had arranged beforehand.
After "rescuing" Walter by killing Hank Schrader in a desert, Jack betrays Walt, steals most of Walt's remaining drug money and kidnaps Jesse as a cook slave. He spares Walt at the behest of Todd, but the latter ended up being a fugitive.
Gretchen and Elliot arrive home. Walt is waiting for them just outside and follows them in as they make small-talk. Walt tells them he's there to give them something. They help him bring approximately $9 million in cash into the living room.
In the final scene, Hank figures out that Walt is Heisenberg while perusing Walt's copy of “Leaves of Grass” on the toilet. The book is inscribed: “To my other favorite W.W. It's an honor working with you.
He was supposed to have netted $96 million from 3 months worth of Walt's cooking at a 99% purity, on gross revenues of $300 million for those 3 months (run rate of $3 million a day). Before Gus started working with Walt, Gale was the primary manufacturer and could manage a 96% pure product.
Gustavo Fring's Drug Empire, known simply as Gus' Drug Empire, was an American drug organization based in Albuquerque, New Mexico and run by drug kingpin Gustavo Fring. It was the second most powerful drug organization in United States history, being surpassed only by Walter White's Drug Empire.
One of its units was rented by Skyler White to store the ~$80 million fortune earned by her husband, Walter, from manufacturing and selling methamphetamine.
Walter loses the insurance money to Willy, a crook that he mistakes for a friend. Mama entrusts Walter with all the money that remains after the down payment on the new house.
Jesse, however, was left with $5 million that Walt gave him out of guilt.
What happens to Walt's money in Breaking Bad? In the last episodes of Breaking Bad, Walter's fortune of 80 million dollars is split among 8 barrels of money. He buries it out in the desert to ensure that it can't be used as evidence against him by the police.
That realization hit home during the phone call at the end of the previous episode, "Granite State." Walter Jr. will not try to understand his father; Walter Jr. will not knowingly accept his money; Walter Jr. will never forgive him. His father was his greatest hero, but became his ultimate villain. Walter Jr.
In 2016, Vince Gilligan finally revealed the true reason why Walter broke up with Gretchen and left Gray Matter: he felt inferior to her and her wealthy family, confirming that it was due to his ego and pride.
The calculated malice of the whole thing is made crystal-clear by the fact that, as Jane begins to choke on her vomit due to an overdose, Walter's instinct is to turn her on her side to save her, but then he stops himself because the idea of her living means more trouble for him.
Of course, Walt didn't dissolve the money in hydrofluoric acid, as he did with various bodies. Instead, he buried it intact, preserving its coordinates on a lottery ticket he tacked to the refrigerator in the desperate hope that it can someday be recovered and passed on to Walter, Jr. and Holly.
Why didn't Jesse kill Walt? Because he was the bigger man. Jesse did not have to kill, he knew he had already taken everything Walter White cherished, his money, his family, and his manhood, and he did it without killing one person.
It is revealed that Skyler is eventually forced to move into an apartment and takes a job as a taxi dispatcher, having all their assets seized. She still maintains custody of the children, however ("Granite State").
She didn't get it. That's one of the reasons he left when the DEA showed up at the park: he needed his buyout from Walt if he was going to set her up.
Vince Gilligan stated in an interview that Elliot and Gretchen never stole anything from Walt and that he chose to leave Gray Matter himself due to his ego being damaged after meeting Gretchen's wealthy family.