The Rich Keep Getting Richer The 30 Top Earning Billionaires Of The Year

We took a look at the world’s richest billionaires and how much they earned in the past year. We looked at the difference between the 2017 and 2018 net worths for each of the 30 billionaires on our list. Francois Bettencourt and Giovanni Ferrero were not included because they just inherited their multi billion fortunes in the last year. The billionaire who earned the least on this list is Bill Gates. He “only” made $4 billion over the past year. The highest-earning billionaire is Jeff Bezos. He grew his net worth by $40 billion in the last year. #30. Bill Gates – $4 billion Current billionaires rank: 2 #29. Susanne Klatten – $4.6 billion Current billionaires rank: 32 #28. Georg Schaeffler –  $4.6 billion Current billionaires rank: 31 #27. Lee Shau Kee –  $5.9 billion Current billionaires rank: 24 #26. Larry Ellison – $6.3 billion Current billionaires rank: 10 #25. Thomas Peterffy – $6.5 billion Current billionaires rank: 47 #24. Serge Dassault – $6.5 billion Current billionaires rank: 41 #23. Sergey Brin – $7.7 billion Current  billionaires rank: 13 #22. He Xiangjian – $7.8 billion Current billionaires rank: 50 #21. Lui Che Woo – $8 billion Current billionaires rank: 50 #20. Larry Page – $8.1 billion Current billionaires rank: 12 #19. Sheldon Adelson – $8.1 billion Current billionaires rank: 21 #18. Steve Ballmer – $8.4 billion Current billionaires rank: 22 #17. Warren Buffett – $8.4 billion Current billionaires rank: 3 #16. Dietrich Mateschitz – $9.6 billion Current billionaires rank: 37 #15. Jack Ma – $10.7 billion Current billionaires rank: 20 #14. Francois Pinault –  $11.3 billion Current billionaires rank: 30 #13. David Koch – $11.7 billion Current billionaires rank: 8 #12. Charles Koch – $11.7 billion Current billionaires rank: 8 #11. Rob Walton – $12.1 billion Current billionaires rank: 15 #10. Alice Walton –  $12.2 billion Current billionaires rank: 16 #9. Jim Walton – $12.4 billion Current billionaires rank: 14 #8. Carlos Slim Helu – $12.6 billion Current billionaires rank: 8 #7. Yang Huiyan – $12.9 billion Current billionaires rank: 43 #6. Mark Zuckerberg – $15 billion Current billionaires rank: 5 #5. Mukesh Ambani – $16.9 billion Current billionaires rank: 19 #4. Hui Ka Yan – $20.1 billion Current billionaires rank: 24 #3. Ma Huateng – $20.4 billion Current billionaires rank: 17 #2. Bernard Arnault – $20.5 billion Current billionaires rank: 4 #1. Jeff Bezos – $39.2 billion Current  billionaires rank: 1