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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 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 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.
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 ...
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.
Musk is followed on the billionaires list by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - with a net worth of $243.7 billion, while Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is in the third spot with a net worth of $223.4 ...
Musk's fortune has ballooned by $218 billion this year — a sum that exceeds the net worth of every other person on the rich list except Amazon's Bezos ($249 billion) and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg ...
Here’s an even closer look at how the world’s 10 richest people on Forbes’ Billionaires Index list got to where they are. 1. Elon Musk. Elon Musk has a net worth of $214.1 billion.