Report: List Of Richest Person In Every State In America, 2018

With a personal wealth of $137.6 billion, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is not only Washington State’s richest resident, but also the richest person in the United States. Bezos easily outranks Bill Gates, who qualified as Washington’s richest for many years with a net worth of $$95.6 billion.

In other states, the richest person has remained firmly in control. Warren Buffett, the third-richest person on this year’s list, is worth $84.7 billion — about 18 times more than Walter Scott Jr., the next-richest resident of Nebraska (and a fellow Berkshire Hathaway billionaire).

A similar situation in Oregon: Nike founder and chair emeritus Phil Knight ($31.7 billion) is worth nearly 12 times his closest neighbor, Columbia Sportswear chief executive Timothy Boyle’s $2.5 billion.

It was a tighter race in California, where Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison beat out Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, finishing with $59.5 billion — $3.1 billion more than Zuckerberg’s $56.4 billion.

For the ultra-rich in some states, however, it’s lonely at the top. In Hawaii, for example, the richest person (Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay – $11 billion) is also the state’s sole billionaire.

Six states — Alabama, North Dakota, Delaware, New Mexico, Vermont, Alaska — aren’t home to a single billionaire, so, in those locations, publication tracked down the richest multi-millionaires.

To identify the richest person in every state in America, CEOWORLD magazine looked at Forbes real-time data tracking system – Rich List Index: The World’s 1,200 Billionaires. The ranking takes into account wealth both self-made and inherited, and includes the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, in Washington State, as well as Walmart heirs Jim and Alice Walton in Arkansas and Texas, respectively.

List Of Richest Person In Every State In America, 2018