The Cash Situation
9 Methods to Think about Jeff Bezos’ Wealth
Knowledge round billionaires’ true wealth is about as murky as swamp water. However that doesn’t imply we are able to’t attempt to wade by way of it! To visualise the big sums held by the ultrarich, I scoured the web for any dependable figures round Jeff Bezos’ fortune — and got here up towards principally query marks and educated guesses. Bezos’ internet price is so tied up in Amazon shares that it will probably swing in a single minute by tens of millions of {dollars}. However listed here are our greatest calculations of his wealth from monetary publications’ reporting and the scant paperwork obtainable. Let’s dive in!
1. Deep Dive
Arduous money is simply a tiny fraction of Bezos’ huge wealth.
Non-public property (e.g., Blue Origin): $9.15 billion
Publicly traded property (e.g., Amazon inventory): $147.25 billion
2. Let Them Eat Cake
Jeff Bezos has given away just one.2 p.c of his wealth up to now. That’s $2.1 billion. What may we accomplish if he gave away extra of his cake?
0.7% Giving each Amazon worker $1,000.
0.8% Emergency repairs to all U.S. roads and bridges.
1.9% Pre-Okay for each U.S. youngster for a 12 months.
8.7% A 12 months’s provide of insulin for U.S. diabetics.
10.4% Free public transportation for each New Yorker for a 12 months.
11.4% Feeding 13.8 million food-insecure American households for a month.
3. Clocking In
Bezos has sufficient cash for a number of lifetimes. However what number of lifetimes wouldn’t it take the common Joe to build up?
The typical full-time Amazon worker made $37,930 in 2020. With the intention to accumulate as a lot cash as Bezos ($172 billion) …
… an worker would have needed to begin working within the Pliocene Epoch (4.5 million years in the past, when hominids had simply began standing on two toes!).
4. Put It In Perspective
The median U.S. family internet price is $118,200. Bezos has $172,000,000,000. So … how does that examine?
The load of a single peanut
A truckload of peanut butter* (*1,925 lbs. — almost one ton!)
The scale of a white blood cell
The size of a finback whale
Fingernail mud* (*0.000117 cm.)
The peak of a chunk of Toblerone
Mount Everest (for those who climb it 5 occasions)
A flight from New York to Louisville, Ky.
The quantity of a quiet library
The roar of a jet taking off
A flake in a snow globe
Each blade of grass on a small entrance garden
A microscopic dot of Champagne (14 bubbles)
A flute of Champagne (20 million bubbles)
The diameter of an Oreo cookie
Greater than two occasions the width of the Grand Canyon
5. Bezos’ World
Bezos owns an estimated 420,000 acres of land. Right here’s what he may match into his metaphorical yard.
6. The Swing of Issues
On any given day, the web price of Jeff Bezos can wobble up or down. Typically, the modifications are huge.
For instance, on March 15, his estimated wealth was $166 billion within the morning when markets opened. By the tip of the day, it was $172 billion.
7. Taking the Temperature
If wealth equaled warmth, how scorching would Jeff Bezos be?
Jeff Bezos $172,000,000,000
The core of the solar 27,000,000°F
Dolly Parton $350,000,000
The warmth of lightning 50,000°F
Mitch McConnell $10,000,000
A pizza oven 900°F
Median U.S. family wealth $118,200
Sweater climate 52°F
If this had been to scale, it could take a lot, for much longer — suppose complete minutes of scrolling — to make it down right here. …
8. Extra is Extra
A timeline of Bezos getting richer and richer and richer and richer and richer and richer and richer…
AUGUST 2013Bezos buys The Washington Put up.
AUGUST 2013Bezos buys The Washington Put up.
2013
JULY 2014 Amazon introduces its first smartphone.
JULY 2014 Amazon introduces its first smartphone.
2014
JULY 2015 First-ever Amazon Prime Day, to have fun 20 years of Amazon.
JULY 2015 First-ever Amazon Prime Day, to have fun 20 years of Amazon.
2015
JUNE 2017 Amazon acquires Entire Meals.
JUNE 2017 Amazon acquires Entire Meals.
2017
MARCH 2020 Pandemic.
2020
9. Within the Instances It Takes
Bezos provides $500* to his wealth each single second. Right here’s how worthwhile his time is.
*calculated from Bezos’ 2012-22 wealth achieve
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SOURCES: Bloomberg Billionaires Index, The Land Report, Amazon filings, Forbes’s America’s High Givers 2022, Bezos’ internet price at finish of enterprise day on March 15, 2022.
Mona Chalabi is a author and an illustrator in London. She makes a speciality of all issues knowledge.
Further design and improvement by Jacky Myint.
