It’s no secret that Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon in 1994, is one of the richest men in the world and a very active member of the billion-dollar oligarch club. In fact, he tends to hover in the top five wealthiest humans on the planet, after Elon Musk and in the company of Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Larry Ellison and Warren Buffett.
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But what if one day, Bezos decided to dismantle his empire and liquidate his assets to give everyone in the United States an equal share? GOBankingRates is checking the math to see how much money every American would have if every citizen got a piece of Bezos’ wealth.
The Number of People in the US
Based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s tracking and data, the total American population is at 340.1 million as of October 2025. The numbers show that about one American is born every 9 seconds while another one dies about every eleven seconds, so the rate of growth and loss are fairly in step with one another.
Theoretically, each of these people would receive an equal share of Bezos’ fortune in a perfect world under ideal circumstances. In the real world, that could prove to be a Herculean task; however, for the sake of experimentation, everyone accounted for in the population will receive the same amount of Bezos’ wealth at the same time on the same day.
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The Amount of Money
Currently, Bezos is ranked the fourth richest person in the world with a net worth estimated around $234 billion. He is also considered to be one of the few people to be included in the $100 Billion Club.
Using that figure and dividing it by the population of America, each person in the country would receive a sum in the range of $688. While that might not be a lot of money to some in the current economy, it would act similarly to a stimulus check or perhaps a holiday bonus.
What It Takes To Earn Bezos’ Wealth
Bezos started from fairly humble beginnings and is now one of the richest people in the world. It might sound impossible to ever reach a salary that could cultivate wealth like Bezos’ in the long term, but it’s not entirely out of the realm of possibility if you build for the future and not just for today.
“Bezos doesn’t make decisions based on what looks good this quarter; he’s thinking in five, 10, sometimes even 20-year timelines,” said Jamie Wall, a personal finance strategist at Gamblizard. “Amazon didn’t turn a profit until 2003, nearly a decade after it launched and seven years after going public.”
“For regular people, this means not basing every financial or career decision on short-term wins,” Wall concluded. “Gaining wealth isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon.”
J. Arky contributed to the reporting for this article.
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