Forbes: Apple CEO Steve Jobs is 74th richest American

Forbes has published their annual list of “The 400 Richest Americans” which ranks 49-year-old Apple and Pixar CEO Steve P. Jobs at number 74. Last year, Forbes’ ranked Jobs at number 78 with $2.3 billion.

David Armstrong and Peter Newcomb, for Forbes’ “The 400 Richest Americans,” write, “The 400 Richest AmericansThe U.S. economy’s recovery may be a little shaky, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at this year’s Forbes 400. The combined net worth of the nation’s wealthiest climbed to $1 trillion, up $45 billion in 12 months.”

Forbes’ Top Ten ($ in billions):

1. Bill Gates – $48.0
2. Warren Buffett – $41.0
3. Paul Allen – $20.0
4. Alice Walton – $18.0
5. Helen Walton – $18.0
6. Jim Walton – $18.0
7. John Walton – $18.0
8. Rob Walton – $18.0
9. Michael Dell – $14.2
10. Larry Ellison – $13.7

74. Steve Jobs – $2.6

Full article and list here.

MacDailyNews Take: Only in America would a Wintel box assembler like Michael Dell find his net worth over 5 times greater than Steve Jobs’, the man who was and is a major force in creating and defining the very personal computer from which Dell profits. We won’t even mention the guy heading the list. But, it ain’t over ’til it’s over, right?