eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) (10/30/84)
Since the subject of net.invest is money, I thought it might be interesting to supply some data on who has how much, i.e. who are the high scorers in the game of wealth. Most of the data is extracted from the October 1,1984 issue of Forbes magazine, which lists the richest people in America. Family Net worth(Million$) Comments ------ ---------- -------- DuPont 10 000 >1000 individuals Hunt 6 425 Oil Getty 4 100 Oil Rockefeller 3 900 Oil Walton 2 300 Cullen 2 000 Packard 1 800 as in Hewlett-Packard MacMillan 1 700 Koch 1 500 Mars 1 500 Newhouse 1 500 Pritzker 1 500 Perot 1 400 Hearst 1 300 Phipps 1 200 Wang 1 200 Lykes 1 100 Tisch 1 100 Mellon 1 083 ---------------------- 19 Families 46 608 million Net Worth class Number of families Total of class ($ billion) ---------- ------------ ------------ > $1 billion 19 46.6 525-1000 million 40 26.6 320- 500 million 75 31.3 150- 300 million 284 58.8 ---------- ---------- ---------- >150 million 418 163.3 billion (2% of total private wealth) Net worth class Number Cumulative Wealth(Trillion$ (%) ) --------------- ---------- --------------------------------- >100 million 600 .18 ( 2.25%) 40-100 million 1 900 .29 ( 3.62%) 16- 40 million 7 500 .46 ( 5.75%) 6- 16 million 50 000 .90 (11.25%) 2.5- 6 million 340 000 2.12 (26.5 %) 1-2.5 million 600 000 3.08 (38.5 %) .4- 1 million 1 500 000 4.00 (50 %) 160-400 thousand 3 500 000 5.00 (62.5 %) 60-160 thousand 14 000 000 6.40 (80.0 %) 20- 60 thousand 30 000 000 7.55 (94.4 %) <20 thousand 50 000 000 8.00 (100 %) --------------- ---------- ---------------------------------- Net worth is defined by (value of all possessions)-(all debts) Northwest Region Heavyweight families: ------------------------------------- Weyerhouser $600 million Weyerhouser Co.(wood prod., real estate dev.) Pigott $300 million Paccar(trucks) Reed $300 million Simpson Timber Fisher $275 million Safeco (insurance) Nordstrom $250 million Nordstrom's(dept. store), Seahawks (NFL) Bullitt $250 million King TV (tv & radio stations) Dani Eder / Boeing Aerospace Company / ssc-vax!eder / (206)773-4545