Chris Evert
$8,896,195Career prize money, exactly as the WTA lists it on her own player record. Retired 1989, so the figure no longer moves.
Documented net worth figures from public records, not estimates
This desk publishes only net worth figures from public records. Prize money is published by the tours that pay it. Contracts are filed. Members of Congress report their assets in ranges, under penalty of law. Company valuations sit inside funding announcements and annual reports. Everything else that circulates as somebody’s “net worth” is an estimate built on other estimates.
- Primary sources only
- Register named on every figure
- Dated to its edition
What counts as a documented net worth figure
The phrase that brought most readers here is net worth, and it hides a split worth naming on the first screen. Some wealth numbers exist as net worth figures from public records: a governing body publishes the prize money it paid, a league files the contract, a legislature requires an annual asset return, a company reports its own valuation to a regulator. Other wealth numbers exist only as somebody’s arithmetic. This site is built entirely on net worth figures from public records, and the second group is refused rather than dressed up.
That refusal is the whole editorial position, so it is worth being concrete about it. Where a tour publishes career prize money, the figure is reproduced with the tour named. Where a league contract is filed, the filed terms are described and the estimate of “total worth” is not. Where nothing is published, and for the private wealth of a living person, almost nothing ever is: the page says that no document exists instead of inventing a range. Documented net worth figures are a small set. Printing only that set is the point of the exercise.
The result is a reference desk rather than a gossip index. It will not tell you what a film star is worth today. It will tell you what a tennis player was paid in prize money across a career, what a footballer’s clubs announced in transfer fees, what a member of Congress declared in asset ranges last year, and where the household you live in sits against the Federal Reserve’s measurement of everybody else’s.
Documented earnings, register by register
All sportsMemphis Depay
€16mThe fee Lyon announced for the January 2017 move from Manchester United. His salary is not disclosed by any club he has played for.
Branch Warren
$130,000The winner’s share of the 2011 Arnold Classic, from the prize breakdown the promoter published for that show.
The public records this desk reads
Method| Register | What it proves | What it does not prove |
|---|---|---|
| Tour prize-money records (WTA, PGA Tour, FEI) | The total the paying body says it paid a competitor | Anything about what is left after tax, agents and expenses |
| Congressional financial disclosures | Assets and liabilities in bracketed ranges, filed annually under penalty | A single net figure: the form does not ask for one |
| SEC filings (Form 4, Form 10-K, Reg CF) | Insider holdings, company revenues, disclosed raises | The private wealth of the people who run the company |
| Athletic-commission purse disclosures | The purse paid for a specific licensed bout in that state | Pay-per-view shares and side deals, which are contractual |
| Club and promoter announcements | A transfer fee or event prize breakdown the payer chose to publish | Wages, bonuses or image-rights payments, which stay private |
| Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances | The distribution of household wealth across the United States | Any individual household, including a named person’s |
Every page names the register it used, the section within it, and the year of the edition.
Why two published figures for one person disagree by ten times
One counts gross career earnings before tax, agent fees and expenses. The other guesses at what is left today. Both get printed under the same two words. Where earnings figures come from
Household net worth by age, from the Federal Reserve
All household dataFederal Reserve, Survey of Consumer Finances, 2022 release. These are medians, not averages: the average is pulled upward by the top of the distribution and describes almost nobody. The by-age page carries the full table, and the top-percentile page shows what the average is hiding.
| Measure | Amount | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| All households, median | $192,900 | Half of households hold less than this |
| All households, mean | $1,063,700 | Total wealth divided by the number of households |
| Least wealthy quarter, mean | −$5,300 | That group owes more than it owns |
Bulletin, October 2023, table 2. The mean sits five and a half times above the median.
Where your household sits
The survey measures assets minus debts for a representative sample of United States households, then publishes the distribution. Because it is a published measurement rather than an estimate of one person, it can be reproduced here in full: the bands by age, the bands by income percentile, and the thresholds at the top.
The percentile calculator compares a figure you enter against those same published bands, in your browser, and sends nothing anywhere.
Why estimates are not published here
The full reasoningAggregator sites print a single confident figure for a living person’s wealth. The figure is arrived at by adding up reported salaries, guessing at property, guessing at endorsement income, guessing at tax paid, and then rounding. None of those inputs is published, which is why two aggregators can differ by a factor of ten on the same person in the same week, and why both can be wrong without ever being correctable. Estimates of that kind are not a weaker version of documented net worth figures; they are a different kind of statement altogether.
Where no document exists, the page says so and names what the missing document would have to be, rather than filling the gap with arithmetic. That makes for a shorter answer than the search result which led to it, and a checkable one: every figure here can be opened at its source by anyone who wants to open it.
Company valuations that sit in a filing
All valuationsRiot Games
$231mWhat Tencent told its shareholders it paid, in November 2011, to take its stake from 22.34% to 92.78%. The widely repeated multi-billion valuation is in no filing.
adidas AG
€23.7bnGroup revenues for 2024, as reported in the company’s own annual report. Revenue is not the same thing as what the group is worth, and the page separates the two.
McDonald’s
$25.9bnConsolidated revenues for the 2024 financial year, from the annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Questions readers send
What makes a net worth figure documented rather than estimated?
A documented figure has a public record behind it that a reader can open: a tournament prize-money table, a league contract filing, an annual financial disclosure, a company annual report. An estimated figure has a calculation behind it instead, and the inputs of that calculation are almost never published.
The test used here is narrow on purpose. If the number cannot be traced to a named document, it does not appear, not in a headline, not in a table, not in a passing sentence.
Why are there no celebrity net worth figures on this site?
Because no public record holds them. The total wealth of a living actor or singer is private information; the figures that circulate are estimates built on other estimates, and they disagree with each other by multiples. The methodology page sets out the reasoning in full.
Athletes are different in one specific respect, and only that respect: prize money, purses and league contracts are published by the bodies that pay them. That is career earnings, not net worth, and the pages here say so plainly.
Where do the household figures come from?
From the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, the triennial survey that measures the distribution of household wealth in the United States. The household data section reproduces the published cuts by age, by income percentile and at the top of the distribution, and the percentile calculator works against the same bands.
Is anything on this site sponsored or monetised?
No. There are no affiliate links, no sponsored placements, no advertising and no paid inclusion of any kind. Nothing on a page changes because of who pays; nobody pays. About the desk explains how that is arranged.