Rank 9 · United States

Steve Ballmer

Posted 9 September 2026, 6:30am EDT·Last checked 9 September 2026, 6:30am EDT·Forbes Real-Time Billionaires

$154.24B

He kept the shares.

Microsoft. The shouting was the job. The paper is what stayed. We do not do the impression.

One blink is three seconds. On this fortune that is $733.15 of paper return. Not a wage. Not cash in a drawer.

Forbes $154.24B · Bloomberg $172.00B

A cheeseburger

14.00 ms

A$5.20 at the counter. You wait in the queue longer.

Your year

4.4 minutes

About A$98,000. An Australian full-time year.

HELP debt

1.0 minutes

A typical student balance. A decade for you.

The car

23.1 minutes

A 296 GTB, starting sticker $338,250.

One shower

A$222,876

Ten minutes. A year of Perth rent, wearing a bathrobe.

The deposit

5.4 minutes

Twenty per cent of a median Perth house.

The shop

753.78 ms

A$280. The bags are heavier than the seconds.

A day of care

403.81 ms

Long-day care. One parent’s working day.

On this name

What we have actually written

Public list, public story, our clock. If there is no line yet the conversions above still run.

Ballmer

Nothing written on this name yet. The clock still runs.

Posted 9 September 2026, 6:30am EDT. Last checked 9 September 2026, 6:30am EDT. Public list only.