Quick Facts Erik Salitan

  • NameErik Salitan
  • Birth Year1984
  • Birth month02
  • NationalityAmerican
  • Birth PlaceNew York, America
  • EthnicityWhite
  • ProfessionActor
  • Net Worth$4,00,000
  • Eye ColorBrown
  • Hair ColorLight Brown
  • MarriedYes
  • Married toMartha Mae Salitan
  • EducationUniversity of Fairbanks
  • ChildrenLucas Salitan

Alaska born actor Erik Salitan is well known for his role for the series ‘Life Below Zero‘. 

Saltine is married to Martha Mae Salitan. As of 2018, Erik Salitan has a net worth of $400,000 which he earned through his professional career as an actor. 

Net Worth Of Erik Salitan

As of 2018, Erik Salitan has earned $400 thousand as his net worth. He earned an impressive amount of salary from a famous four-year-long series “Life Below Zero”.

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Salitan is a renown actor as well as a famous guide. He has more than sixteen years of guiding experience as the owner of “Bushwhack Alaska Guiding and Outfitting.” 

Along with that, he also operates two lodges, one in ‘Remote Brooks Range‘ and another in ‘Peninsula‘ located at Alaska. So as an entrepreneur, guide, and a well-known actor the Alaskan actor definitely earn a heavy amount of salary. 

Erik Salitin Personal Life

Erik Salatin is now around 34 years old and has already found his love. He is currently living with three members in his family in Iliamna, Alaska. Salitan is married to Martha Mae Salitan and the couples were blessed with a child name as Lucas Salitan.

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Salatin and Mae Salitan first met each other at Alaska where they both got married. Beyond that, there is no such information of being Salitin in any relationship or dating to anyone in his young age. Salatin has also not been in any rumors till now.

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His son Lucas seems to love what his father does and follows Erik’s footsteps because he has learned various ideas from his father. Erik is seen posting pictures of his son Lucas’ activities in the wilderness and in various pictures, Lucas is seen imitating his dad and learning the survival techniques.


CAPTION: Lucas Salitan

SOURCE: national geographic

Salatin is raising his family in conditions where no ordinary people can survive. Being a guide, he is raising his family in the wilderness of Alaskan jungle. 


CAPTION: Erik Salitin and His Wife

SOURCE: national geographic

Until now, we reportedly here that he and his wife share a loving bond and so far we haven’t heard about them getting a divorce or developing complication in their married life.

Erik Salitin Early Life

Salitan was born on 9th February 1984 at New York, America. He hasn’t lived his life being luxurious with his family, he lived a little bit out of ordinary life in the jungle of Alaska. He got raised up in the rural lower 48 states at the upstate of New York.

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Saltine holds an American Nationality and belonging to the ethnicity of white. 

He did his schooling from the Finger Lakes Community College and later went to the University of Fairbanks and obtained a degree in Applied Science. After his graduation, he moved to Wiseman which is sixty-seven miles from the Arctic Circle. 

Erik Salitan Professional Career

As of 1966 at the age of eighteen, Salitin realized that he didn’t want to live his life like a robot. Instead, he wanted to travel and wanted to challenge the nature of Alaska.

He played a cast member for documentary series Life Below Zero which premiered on the National Geographic Channel in May of 2013. The show relied on surviving in the unfavorable conditions on Alaskian jungle.

Salitan along with his wife  Martha Mae Salitan and his team members Glenn Villeneuve, Chip Hailstone, Andy Bassich, Kate Rorke-Bassich, Agnes Hailstone, Kate Bassich have worked in the famous survival related show.

Salitan left the show after working for in it for four exact years. Nowadays, He operates his own lodge Talarik Creek Lodge with his wife. Further, he is a pilot and also a well-trained guide.

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