--- title: Jeff Bezos Is Making an Insane $230,000 a Minute Right Now description: Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' net worth has increased by $30 billion so far in 2018. His fortune is growing at $10 billion per month. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Business - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2018-03-09T16:39:39.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T13:02:57.000Z' section: Business tags: - Amazon - Bill Gates - Billionaires - Jeff Bezos - richest word_count: 376 canonical: https://money.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-2018-worlds-richest-man/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Amazon Unveils Its First Smartphone](https://img.money.com/2018/03/jeffbezos30billion-em-450831380.jpg) *Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos* Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos started 2018 as the [world's richest man](https://money.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-100-billion-worlds-richest-man/)—and his net worth has positively skyrocketed so far this year. Jeff Bezos' net worth is based mostly on the price of Amazon stock, and Amazon shares have been soaring, up more than 50% over the past six months. Bezos started 2018 with a fortune worth nearly $100 billion, and he quickly added $10 billion to his net worth within the first two weeks of the year. By the end of January, Bezos was up [up $20 billion](https://money.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-healthcare-earnings/) year to date. According to the [Bloomberg Billionaire Index](https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/), Jeff Bezos' net worth just hit $129 billion, up a whopping $30.1 billion thus far in 2018. Bezos now holds a huge lead over the world's second-richest person, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, whose net worth is $92 billion, and who has made "only" $128 million in 2018. Jeff Bezos' net worth has been growing at a staggering pace. He added [$35 billion](https://money.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-healthcare-earnings/) to his fortune last year, and it seems like he will surpass that mark easily in 2018. Less than three months into the year, he has been expanding his fortune at a pace of better than *$10 billion per month*. According to some quick back-of-the-envelope math, Bezos' fortune has been increasing by roughly $231,000 per minute in 2018. So every minute, Bezos has made roughly four times what the average [American worker makes in a year](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N). How much money could Jeff Bezos make in 2018? Any answer would require plenty of speculation. As mentioned, Bezos' net worth is linked directly to the price of Amazon stock, and there's no telling what the market will do. What's more, an increase in one's wealth based on rising stock prices is merely a theoretical increase on paper. It does not necessarily translate into realized earnings. But just for fun, if Amazon shares somehow kept rising and Jeff Bezos' net worth kept expanding at a ballpark clip of $10 billion per month, he would make $120 billion in 2018. In other words, he would more than double his wealth in a year. His net worth would top $200 billion, making him not only the richest person on the planet right now—but one of the [richest people of all time](https://money.com/the-10-richest-people-of-all-time-2/). ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-2018-worlds-richest-man/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Business", "item": "https://money.com/business/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Entrepreneurship", "item": "https://money.com/entrepreneurship/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Jeff Bezos Is Making an Insane $230,000 a Minute Right Now" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-2018-worlds-richest-man/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-2018-worlds-richest-man/", "name": "Jeff Bezos Is Making an Insane $230,000 a Minute Right Now", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2018-03-09T16:39:39.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-2018-worlds-richest-man/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-2018-worlds-richest-man/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-16T13:02:57.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Jeff Bezos Is Making an Insane $230,000 a Minute Right Now", "articleSection": "Business", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2018/03/jeffbezos30billion-em-450831380.jpg", "width": 3200, "height": 2133, "caption": "Amazon Unveils Its First Smartphone" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2018-03-09T16:39:39.000Z", "description": "Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' net worth has increased by $30 billion so far in 2018. 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