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Bernard Sanders
Senator· VTISenate● In office
Before officeJournalist · Carpenter · University teacher · Writer · John F. Kennedy School of Government · Hamilton College
Est. net worth
$979K
$363K – $1.6M
Raised (last cycle)
$8.2M
FEC · cycle 2024
Years in role
1
Senator since 2025 · 35y in office
Net-worth filings
12
+$1.3M since 2013
File A — Net Worth
Net worth over time
Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.
$979K($363K – $1.6M)
Medium confidence midpoint disclosed range govt salary
source filing →File D — Benchmark
If they'd just invested 20%
A disciplined-saver benchmark: 20% of each year's government salary, invested at an assumed 7%/yr return — versus actual disclosed net worth.
hypothetical retirement actual net worth salary
Hypothetical, not actual savings — see methodology.
File C — Service
Term history
- SenatorVTI2025 – 2031 · 6 yrs
- SenatorVTI2019 – 2025 · 6 yrs
- SenatorVTI2013 – 2019 · 6 yrs
- SenatorVTI2007 – 2013 · 6 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I2005 – 2007 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I2003 – 2005 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I2001 – 2003 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I1999 – 2001 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I1997 – 1999 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I1995 – 1997 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I1993 – 1995 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I1991 – 1993 · 2 yrs