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How BlackRock's CEO Built a $1.1B Fortune
Larry Fink just hit billionaire status—here’s the breakdown:
The Annual Paycheck Fink pulls in $20-40M yearly from BlackRock. In 2022 alone: $32.7M total comp, split as $1.5M base + $7.25M bonus + $23.25M stock awards. That’s 212x the median employee salary, per AFL-CIO.
The Real Money: BlackRock Shares Here’s where it gets interesting. Fink owns 414,146 BlackRock shares. At today’s price of $761.28/share, that stake alone is worth $315.28M—more than a quarter of his entire net worth.
The Bottom Line Forbes pegs his total net worth at $1.1B as of May 2024. Most CEOs get rich from salary. Fink got rich from owning the company.
The lesson? In finance, equity beats salary every time.