“For the third consecutive year, the rich got richer. In this, the 24th annual edition of the Forbes 400, the collective net worth of the United States’ wealthiest climbed $125 billion, to $1.13 trillion,” Forbes reports.

The Top Ten (rank, name, net worth, source):
1. William H. Gates: $51,000,000,000 – Microsoft
2. Warren E. Buffett: $40,000,000,000 – Berkshire Hathaway
3. Paul G. Allen: $22,500,000,000 – Microsoft
4. Michael Dell: $18,000,000,000 – Dell
5. Lawrence Ellison: $17,000,000,000 – Oracle
6. Christy Walton: $15,700,000,000 – Wal-Mart
6. Jim C. Walton: $15,700,000,000 – Wal-Mart
8. S. Robson Walton: $15,600,000,000 – Wal-Mart
9. Alice L. Walton: $15,500,000,000 – Wal-Mart
10. Helen R. Walton: $15,400,000,000 – Wal-Mart

Others on the list include:
11. Steve “Monkey Boy” Ballmer: $14,000,000,000 – Microsoft
16. SergeyBrin: $11,000,000,000 – Google
16. Larry Page: $11,000,000,000 – Google
50. H. Ross Perot: $4,200,000,000 – Computer services, real estate
52. Eric Schmidt: $4,000,000,000 – Google
67. Steven Paul Jobs: $3,300 ,000,000 – Apple, Pixar
83. Steven Spielberg: $2,700,000,000 – Movies
83. Donald Trump: $2,700,000,000 – Real estate
93. Jerry Yang: $2,500,000,000 – Yahoo!
164. Mark Cuban: $1,800,000,000 – Broadcast.com
258. Ted Waitt: $1,300,000,000 – Gateway
283. Roy Disney: $1,300,000,000 – Disney
320. William Galvin: $1,100,000,000 – Motorola
377. Martha Stewart: $970,000,000 – Martha Stewart Omnimedia

Last year, Steve Jobs was at #74 with $2.6 billion. In 2003, Jobs was listed at #78 with $2.3 billion.

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