Quick answer: There is no official Jim Justice net-worth total — not from the Senate, not from a tax return this page has opened, and not from a current Forbes live billionaire card. He is the junior U.S. senator from West Virginia (sworn in 14 January 2025 after two terms as governor, 2017–13 January 2025). That is public office. This page treats it like the Andy Beshear file: named disclosures and named press, not a clone “exact fortune.”
Forbes (10 January 2025), as he left the governor’s office, estimated more than $1 billion in personally guaranteed loans, judgments, and environmental liabilities and a net worth of “less than zero.” The same publisher’s profile card still displays $1.2 billion as of 7 April 2020 and states he was removed from the billionaire list in March 2021 after an ~$850 million Greensill Capital debt surfaced. Those are not the same number. This page prints the dates. It does not average them.
Celebrity Net Worth (updated 9 July 2026) still prints about $700 million (peak, it says, as high as $1.7 billion) and calls him the richest member of Congress. Quiver Quantitative (27 August 2025) modeled about $664.2 million from a Senate disclosure parse. Senate forms use ranges (including many “over $50 million” lines) and do not subtract every liability the way Forbes did in January 2025. Clone pages that flatten all of that to a single “$664 million net worth 2026” are doing arithmetic the Ethics in Government Act does not do.
Official pay we can name: rank-and-file senators earn $174,000 a year (U.S. Senate historical salary table, still $174,000 in 2026). That salary is not his fortune.
Quick facts
| Item | Named record |
|---|---|
| Office (2026) | U.S. senator, West Virginia, from 14 January 2025 (GovTrack / WV Public Broadcasting). Former 36th governor, 16 January 2017 – 13 January 2025. |
| Senate salary | $174,000 (Senate.gov table; unchanged for rank-and-file members in 2026) |
| Official net-worth total | None. e-FD filings are asset/liability ranges. |
| Forbes profile card | $1.2 billion labeled “2020 Billionaires,” last updated 7 April 2020 |
| Forbes, March 2021 | Dropped from billionaires after ~$850 million Greensill / Bluestone debt |
| Forbes, 10 January 2025 | Liabilities >$1 billion; estimated net worth “less than zero” |
| AP on that Forbes pass | Also notes an intermediate Forbes ~$513 million after the 2021 strip, then the 2025 “less than zero” estimate |
| Celebrity Net Worth | About $700 million (9 July 2026); peak as high as $1.7 billion (CNW) |
| Quiver Quantitative | About $664.2 million modeled from disclosure, 27 August 2025 — not an audited net |
What the numbers are — and what they are not
| Source | Figure | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Senate salary table | $174,000 (2026) | Official pay for most senators. A flow. Not net worth. |
| Forbes real-time card | $1.2B as of 7 Apr 2020 | A stale billionaire snapshot. Forbes’ own later stories supersede it as a current total. |
| Forbes, 30 Mar 2021 | Off the billionaire list; ~$850 million Greensill debt | Named reason he left the list. AP later cites ~$513 million as the post-strip Forbes estimate. |
| Forbes, 10 Jan 2025 | “Less than zero”; >$1 billion liabilities | Forbes’ then-current estimate of assets minus debts (Greenbrier, Bluestone, judgments, reclamation). Not a Senate form. |
| CNW, 9 July 2026 | ~$700 million | Compiler wealth print. Conflicts with Forbes Jan 2025. This page does not average $700 million and “less than zero.” |
| Quiver, 27 Aug 2025 | ~$664.2 million | A model on ranged disclosures. Same problem as summing “$50 million+” boxes: the top bin has no ceiling. |
YMYL rule on this page: do not invent a 2026 point estimate to win a Google snippet. If a reader needs one sentence: Forbes (January 2025) said the debts could wipe out the equity; CNW (July 2026) still prints $700 million; the Senate form cannot settle the fight because it is written in ranges.
Coal, Greensill, Greenbrier — named, not netted here
Forbes (2021): he sold Bluestone Resources to Russia’s Mechel in 2009 for about $500 million plus Mechel stock, enough to put him on The Forbes 400 in 2011 (~$1.1 billion then, later peaking at about $1.7 billion on that telling). Greensill later extended on the order of $850 million in loans. That is the named off-ramp from “billionaire.”
Forbes (January 2025): the 710-room Greenbrier “may now be worth less than half the $1 billion value Justice long claimed”; Bluestone still mining on the order of 500,000 tons a year vs ~2 million a decade earlier. Those are Forbes’ operating sketches. They are not an appraisal this page commissioned.
AP has separately reported growing debts into the Senate years, including state tax liens on Greenbrier-related properties. Liens and lawsuits are public records. They are not a second net worth, and this page will not turn every docket into a running total.
What a Senate disclosure can and cannot do
The Ethics in Government Act requires assets, liabilities, and income in bands. Several Justice lines sit in the open-ended “over $50,000,000” bucket. You cannot lawfully derive “exactly $664 million” from that form. Quiver’s $664.2 million is a vendor’s midpoint-style estimate. CNW’s $700 million is another vendor. Forbes’ “less than zero” is a third method that tries to price liabilities the form may not fully net. Print the conflict. Do not pick a winner to look decisive.
How we research this page
Senate.gov for pay; Forbes 2020 card / 2021 Greensill / 2025 “less than zero” as dated Forbes passes; CNW 9 July 2026 for the compiler ticker; Quiver 2025 only as a disclosure model; AP for debt reporting. Same standard as Beshear: official pay first, no fake precision. Process: About Us.
Frequently asked questions
What is Jim Justice’s net worth in 2026?
There is no official total. Celebrity Net Worth estimated about $700 million as of 9 July 2026. Forbes, on 10 January 2025, estimated a net worth of less than zero after more than $1 billion in liabilities. Senate disclosures use ranges and cannot settle that gap.
Is he still a billionaire?
Forbes removed him from its billionaire list in March 2021 after the Greensill debt became public. A 2020 Forbes card still shows $1.2 billion as of 7 April 2020; that stamp is not a 2026 ranking.
Is he the sitting governor of West Virginia?
No. He was governor from January 2017 through 13 January 2025. Patrick Morrisey succeeded him. Justice was sworn into the U.S. Senate on 14 January 2025.
Is the $664 million “richest senator” figure official?
No. It comes from Quiver Quantitative’s August 2025 model of a financial disclosure. It is not a Senate-certified net worth, and it is not Forbes’ January 2025 estimate.
What does he get paid as a senator?
Rank-and-file U.S. senators are paid $174,000 a year per the Senate’s own salary table (still that rate in 2026). That paycheck is not his coal-and-resort balance sheet.
Bottom line
Jim Justice’s 2026 money story on named sources is a YMYL conflict: a stale Forbes $1.2 billion (April 2020) card, a March 2021 billionaire drop after ~$850 million Greensill debt, a January 2025 Forbes estimate of less than zero against >$1 billion liabilities, a CNW ticker of about $700 million (9 July 2026), and a Quiver disclosure model of about $664 million (August 2025). Official fact: $174,000 Senate pay. Quote each source, date it, and do not mint a fake “exact net worth.”
