Vice President JD Vance may currently be snagging headlines over news that second lady Usha Vance is pregnant with the pair’s fourth child, but most discussions surrounding the vice president hinge around his rhetorical choices, stated policy endorsements or personal wealth.
The latter question is one examined here: How much is Vance currently worth, and how much of that wealth has been generated over the course of the past five years?
Vance’s Net Worth in 2021
To establish a baseline, let’s first consider what Vance’s net worth could be pegged at five years ago, in 2021.
According to Forbes, President Donald Trump’s right-hand man held in the neighborhood of between $3 million and $10 million “of venture holdings and liquid assets” in 2021. In 2018, Vance and his wife purchased a $1.4 million home in East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati — a five-bedroom property of about 4,700 square feet.
But how did he arrive at that point? The news outlet suggested that a number of well-paying jobs at prominent law firms helped to bolster a solid educational foundation (the cost of which was at least partially mitigated by Vance’s military service and the assistance of financial aid). Vance would then partner up with Usha, herself a well-heeled lawyer, and the power couple continued on from there to become among the most famous husband-wife teams in the United States.
Further, Vance achieved fame via the writing and publication of his bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” in 2016. According to Publishers Weekly, the book sold over 400,000 copies in 2016 alone and was converted to a film adaptation. The book was estimated to net Vance about $350,000 in royalties in 2020, with that figure increasing to around $475,000 in 2021, following Trump’s successful bid for a second term, per Newsweek.
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Vance’s Net Worth in 2026
With the book royalties remaining quite healthy, as Publishers Weekly indicated, more recent disclosures and analyses, including a 2024 report from CBS News, peg some degree of wealth building for Vance and his family.
CBS suggested that Vance’s most significant asset, at the time, was an account worth between $2.3 million and $7.7 million with Charles Schwab. Vance also disclosed bitcoin holdings of between $250,000 and $500,000 at that time, real estate worth between $500,000 and $1 million in Washington, D.C., and an ownership stake at his venture capital fund (Narya Capital Fund I) with a valuation figured at between $500,000 and $1 million, among other holdings.
As of 2026, citing mid-2025 Forbes figures, Parade registered Vance’s net worth at $12 million, or $2 million more than had been cited in 2024 — and between $2 million and $9 million more than his net worth had been estimated at five years ago.
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