Vice President J.D. Vance, who won in November on a ticket with Republican Donald Trump, is an investor, venture capitalist, best-selling author and the former U.S. Senator from Ohio.
So what is Vance’s worth? Here’s a look at his net worth.
J.D. Vance net worth estimated between $5 million and $10 million, less than $500,000 in debt
Vance, 39, of Middletown, has a net worth of $5 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, which uses data drawn from public sources as well as information provided by celebrities or their representatives. Forbes puts his net worth at an estimated $10 million, with his only significant debt being $480,000 owed on a Washington, D.C., house purchased in 2014.
Citing Vance’s 2022 Congressional financial disclosure, Celebrity Net Worth reports that the majority of his 100-plus investments are worth between $1,000 and $15,000. Some of Vance’s major investments include:
The combined value of these assets alone adds up to between $2.7 million and $5.6 million.
JD Vance homes, real estate holdings
Forbes reports that JD Vance has around $4 million in real estate holdings. Those include:
How much does Vance earn as Vice President of the United States?
As the country’s second in command, Vance makes $235,100 each year he serves as vice president, according to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation.
How much did Vance make as a senator?
Vance earned an annual salary of $174,000 as a U.S. senator, according to the NTUF. Vance resigned as senator just before taking on his role as vice president.
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ earns Vance nearly $500,000
According to Business Insider, Vance reported earnings of $475,308 in 2021 off royalties from his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
That royalty payday in the year he announced his political candidacy was an increase from the previous year. In 2020, his book earned him $347,752, not including a movie deal with Netflix.
Colleges pay Vance $70,000 to speak after ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ published
In the two years after the publication of “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance visited 18 colleges and universities to give commencement addresses, lectures or political talks, the Associated Press reports. He was paid more than $70,000 for those visits, according to records provided to the AP.
At the time, Vance, an Ohio State University and Yale Law School graduate, spoke highly of education, the AP reports. But once he announced his political campaign, he targeted universities as enemies of the conservative movement.
Vance won U.S. Senate seat in 2022 before running for vice president
In November 2022, Trump-endorsed Vance defeated Democrat Tim Ryan in the election for the U.S. Senate, keeping one of Ohio’s seats in Republican hands.
The race to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman became one of the most watched in the nation, and Republicans fought harder than planned to keep a seat critical to a GOP Senate majority.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan raised millions of dollars and took advantage of a bruising GOP primary to keep the race close until the very end, as the Cincinnati Enquirer previously reported.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: What is JD Vance’s net worth? Does he have debt? A look at the fortune of Donald Trump’s VP
Reporting by Chad Murphy, Columbus Dispatch / Cincinnati Enquirer
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