Latest Update: Dr. Ben Carson's Assets & Salary - Is the Star a Billionaire? Net Worth 2026: Career Earnings & Assets

As one of the most talked-about figures, Dr. Ben Carson has built a significant fortune. Our team analyzed the latest data to provide a clear picture of their income.

What Is Dr. Ben Carson's Net Worth?

Ben Carson was born Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. on September 18, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan. Carson's mother, Sonya, was just 13 when she married his father, 28-year-old Robert Solomon Carson. After his father finished his military service, the family moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1959, Carson's parents separated, and he lived with his mother and brother in Boston. Two years later, they moved back to Detroit, where Ben attended Southwestern High School and graduated third in his class.

Education and Career as a Surgeon

In a 16-month period between 2014 and 2015, Carson earned between $2 million and $10 million for his work as a member of the Board of Kellogg and Costco.

Outside of his income as a physician, Carson has made a small fortune giving inspirational speeches. In 2014 alone, he made more than $2 million giving speeches, with his per-speech fee ranging from $12,000 to $50,000 on average. In a 2015 financial disclosure, Ben revealed that in a 16-month period between 2014 and 2015, Carson and his wife, Candy, earned between $9 and $27 million in speaking engagement fees, book royalties, and salary for serving as a Board member on various companies. Between January 2014 and May 2014, Carson earned $4 million giving 141 speeches.

Dr. Ben Carson is an American neurosurgeon who has a net worth of $30 million. In addition to being a world-renowned neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson has earned notoriety as a 2016 candidate for President of the United States on the Republican ticket. In March 2017, PresidentDonald Trumpappointed Dr. Carson as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. According to a 2014 financial disclosure, at that time Dr. Carson's net worth was $26 million. An updated financial disclosure released in 2016 lowered his net worth estimate to $16 million. His 2016 disclosure showed Carson owning tens of millions of dollars worth of publicly traded equities in companies, notably Kellogg and Costco, on which he served as a member of the Board of Directors.

In the same period, he earned between $1 million and $6 million from book royalties and advances and between $200,000 and $2 million working as a contributor to Fox News and the "Washington Times."

In 1984, Carson was appointed the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. He has been a Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology, Plastic Surgery, and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins, and he also operated on approximately 300 children a year. (Down from his original 500 per year.) As a surgeon, he specialized in traumatic brain injuries, brain and spinal cord tumors, epilepsy, and other neurological and congenital disorders. Carson was part of the revival of the hemispherectomy, a surgical procedure in which part or all of one hemisphere of the brain is removed to control severe epilepsy in children. He refined the procedure and performed it many times.

Speaking Fees and Royalties

Carson graduated from Yale University on a full-ride scholarship and then went on to earn his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School. After struggling academically at first, he was encouraged to either drop out or take a reduced class load and take longer to graduate. He continued with a regular full class load, and his grades slowly improved. He graduated in 1977 and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Carson was subsequently accepted into the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine neurosurgery program, where he served for one year as a surgical intern and then five years as a neurosurgery resident. He completed his final year as chief resident in 1983. Ben spent 1983 and 1984 as a Senior Registrar in Neurosurgery at a hospital in Perth, Western Australia.

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Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.