What is Kamala Harris' net worth and salary?
Kamala Harris is an American politician and attorney who has a net worth of $8 million. The vast majority of Kamala Harris' net worth was built thanks to the income earned by her husband, Doug Emhoff. Emhoff was previously a partner a the law firm DLA Piper. He left the practice in August 2020, before Kamala's inauguration. When he was a partner at the firm, he typically made over $1 million per year in salary. Kamala and Doug have been married since 2012. As we detail in the next section below, Kamala has earned around $750,000 in total in book royalties to date.
In November 2020, Kamala Harris was elected Vice President of the United States, serving under Joe Biden as President. When Kamala was sworn in, she became the first female Vice President in US history and the first person of color to hold this office. In July 2024, Kamala stepped in as the presumptive Democratic candidate for President after the sudden announcement that Biden would no longer seek reelection. Kamala lost the Presidential race to Donald Trump on November 5, 2024.
Prior to becoming Vice President, Kamala served as a US Senator, representing California, from 2017 to 2021. From 2011 to 2017, she was the attorney general of California.
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Finances and Wealth
According to their most recent financial disclosure, Kamala and Doug's assets and bank accounts are worth between $3.6 million and $7.36 million. The value of their assets has roughly doubled since 2015. According to a financial disclosure form released by Kamala Harris in 2019, at that point the couple controlled assets valued at $2.5 to $6 million with $3 million worth of liabilities, mostly in the form of mortgages. Most of their liquid assets are invested in mutual funds and retirement accounts. Between 2019 and 2024, Kamala earned $750,000 in book royalties.
Between 2004 and 2023, Kamala and Doug earned a bit over $16 million in total income. The vast majority of their income came thanks to Doug Emhoff's former salary as a partner at DLA Piper Law Firm. He worked out of their California and D.C. offices, focusing on entertainment and intellectual property law. He typically earned at least $1 million in total comp per year, but sometimes as much as $1.5 million. Doug Emhoff stepped down from this lucrative law firm partnership in August 2020.
In April 2019, Kamala released 15 years of tax returns. The most notable finding in the returns was that she and her husband earned just under $2 million in 2018. The bulk of their income, roughly $1.4 million, came from Doug's law firm salary. Roughly $370,000 came from royalties from her book "The Truths We Hold," and $157,000 of their earnings came from Kamala's Senate salary. The couple paid $697,000 in taxes and donated $27,000 to charity.
In April 2023, Doug and Kamala released their tax return for 2022. The filing showed that they earned $456,918 in total income in 2022. They paid $93,000 in Federal income tax and $17,600 in California income taxes.
In April 2024, Doug and Kamala released their tax return for 2023. The filing showed that they earned $450,299 in total income in 2023. Their income was made up of her $218,784 Vice President salary and $174,994 Doug made as a visiting professor at Georgetown University. They made $6,000 in book royalties and $50,000 from interest income. They paid $88,570 in Federal income tax.
Tax Returns
Here's exactly how much Kamala earned between 2004 and 2023. Keep in mind that Kamala and Doug Emhoff married in 2012 but didn't begin to file their taxes jointly until 2014. She was District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. She was California's Attorney General from 2011 to 2017. She was a US Senator from 2017 until being elected Vice President.
- 2004: $142,462
- 2005: $145,952
- 2006: $154,052
- 2007: $182,297
- 2008: $204,864
- 2009: $206,439
- 2010: $262,877
- 2011: $159,294
- 2012: $130,568
- 2013: $128,668
- 2014: $1,232,613
- 2015: $1,255,713
- 2016: $1,252,635
- 2017: $1,546,887
- 2018: $1,884,319
- 2019: $3,095,590
- 2020: $1,629,584
- 2021: $1,598,257
- 2022: $397,668
- 2023: $450,380
Total = $16,061,119
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Early Life and Career
Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California, in October 1964. She graduated from Howard University and earned her JD from the University of California, Hastings.
Harris served as the 27th District Attorney of San Francisco from January 2004 to January 2011. From January 2011 to January 2017, she served as the 32nd Attorney General of California. Kamala Harris became a United States Senator from California in January 2017.
In 2019, she announced she was seeking the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 United States presidential election. From 1990 to 1998, she was a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California. Some of her stances include supporting Medicare for all, sanctuary cities, the legalization of recreational marijuana, lower taxes for the working and middle class, and passing a DREAM Act.
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Real Estate
Kamala and Doug own a handful of homes that have a combined estimated value of $8-10 million before mortgage liabilities. In 2012, two years before they married, Doug Emhoff paid $2.7 million for a home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood. Today, this home is worth around $5 million, based on comparable neighborhood sales.
In 2004, Kamala paid $490,000 for an apartment in San Francisco. That same year, she began serving as California's first black District Attorney. She sold this apartment in March 2021 for $860,000.
In 2017, the year she was elected to the Senate, Kamala and Doug paid $1.775 million for a condo in Washington, D.C.. They listed his condo for sale in April 2021 for $1.995 million. They sold it in September 2021 for $1.85 million.
