Person profile
Former chief executive of Microsoft and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
"Valued as of" is the effective date of the market closes, exchange rates, and filings inside the estimate. "Sources checked" is when the pipeline last verified those sources successfully. A weekend check can confirm a Friday valuation without inventing weekend movement.
As of September 4, 2026, Steve Ballmer's estimated net worth is about $166.5B(166.5 billion US dollars). That places Steve Ballmer at #9 among the people Net Worth Leader currently tracks.
This is an estimate of assets minus documented liabilities. It is not a cash balance, and many holdings may be restricted, pledged, illiquid, or difficult to value.
Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 as its first business manager, ran the company from 2000 to 2014, and left with a stake of roughly four percent that he has largely kept. Because he no longer has a reporting obligation, the estimate carries forward his last filed share count and labels the evidence date honestly.
Ballmer's shares came mostly from early employee grants and purchases rather than founding equity. After retiring as chief executive and leaving the board in August 2014, he bought the Los Angeles Clippers and has collected Microsoft dividends while reporting no further sales beyond a disclosed partial sale around the team purchase.
The estimate tracks Microsoft's share price applied to the 2014 share count. It cannot see any undisclosed sales, which is why the low case is below the central value and the coverage label is limited.
Steve Ballmer's estimate declined mainly because Microsoft Corporation shares decreased from the prior comparable close.
A one-day estimate change is not the same as income, profit, or a realized gain or loss.
| Component | Class | Ownership | Valuation basis | Central value | Supported range | Evidence date | Price date | Sources | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft common stock, last filed count carried forwardMicrosoft Corporation (MSFT, Common stock) | listed equity | direct (333,254,734 units) | Last filed share count | 166.5 billion US dollars | 158.2 billion US dollars to 166.5 billion US dollars | [1] Steven A. Ballmer, Form 4 (Microsoft Corporation), [2] Report on Steve Ballmer's Microsoft dividend income and share position, [3] Daily unadjusted closing prices, chart endpoint | current |
Liabilities without a documented value are never shown as zero; they are simply not included, and that limitation is part of source coverage below.
100.0% of this profile's modeled gross value is supported by Tier 1 or Tier 2 evidence (primary filings, official documents, licensed market data, or audited accounts). The profile carries a strong coverage label.
The supported range shown in the header reflects documented uncertainty in privately valued components. Priced listed holdings carry no modeled range of their own. Unknown liabilities are not evidence that no liabilities exist. No personal liability is documented for this profile, so none is deducted.
The timeline runs from June 12, 2026 to September 4, 2026; the latest estimate is higher than the first point. Points before August 20, 2026 are labeled modeled reconstructions: today's reviewed ownership records applied to the closing prices of each earlier market date. Published history begins August 20, 2026 and grows one point per completed market date.
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| 166.5 billion US dollars | Published snapshot | |
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| 161.4 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
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| 166.6 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
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On paper, Steve Ballmer's estimated net worth is equivalent to about 256,000,000 PlayStation 5 consoles.
Reference value $650, effective 2026-04-02. PlayStation.Blog (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Uses Sony's US recommended retail price effective April 2, 2026, before sales tax.
On paper, Steve Ballmer's estimated net worth is equivalent to about 2,550,000 years of median full-time US pay.
Reference value $65,416, effective 2026-06-30. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Uses the BLS median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers for the second quarter of 2026 ($1,258, seasonally adjusted) multiplied by 52 weeks, before taxes.
Split evenly across every US resident, the estimate works out to about $487 per person.
Cited population 342,000,000, effective 2025-07-01. U.S. Census Bureau
Divides the estimate evenly across the Census Bureau's July 1, 2025 resident population estimate. It is arithmetic, not a policy proposal, and the assets could not be distributed at the displayed value.
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The count of 333,254,734 shares comes from his August 20, 2014 Form 4, the last primary filing that states it. Secondary reporting in 2026 describes the position as roughly unchanged apart from a sale of about 14 million shares, so the low case applies a 5 percent reduction. Dividends, cash, sports-team and real estate assets are not modeled.
Identity facts stored separately for this profile: citizenship United States; residence United States; ranking attribution United States. Attribution reason: Citizenship, residence, and the headquarters of the companies that drive the estimate are all in the United States.
Reviewed by Net Worth Leader editorial desk on August 20, 2026. General rules live in the methodology.
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