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Elon Musk made $175.8 million when PayPal was sold to eBay in October 2002. [5] He was first listed on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2012, with a net worth of $2 billion. [6] Musk paid $455 million in taxes on $1.52 billion of income between 2014 and 2018. [7] According to ProPublica, Musk paid no federal income taxes in 2018. [8]
The combined net worth of the list was $3.6 trillion, up 50 percent from 2009's $2.4 trillion, while the average net worth was $3.5 billion. [9] The 2010 list featured 164 re-entries and 97 true newcomers. [9] Asia accounted for more than 100 of the new entrants.
It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets by Forbes and by data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. [1]
The world's 10 biggest wealth gainers have grown $790 billion richer in 2024. Elon Musk leads the list with a $257 billion gain that has boosted his net worth to $486 billion.
The 20 richest people were worth $406 billion then, a fraction of the $3 trillion they're worth today. Musk alone is worth $454 billion today, exceeding the combined wealth of the top 20 in 2000.
The world's 10 wealthiest people added more than $500 billion to their combined fortunes in 2024. The top 20 gained $700 billion and ended the year with a total worth above $3 trillion. Elon Musk ...
Elon Musk now boasts a net worth of $400 billion, making him the first person in history to ever hit that milestone. The world’s richest person became even richer Wednesday after SpaceX and its ...
Elon Musk's net worth of $264 billion makes him the world's richest person. His wealth is closely tied to shares of his car company, Tesla.