Kamala Harris’ net worth in 2025: How rich is the former VP?

As the 2024 Democratic nominee for U.S. President, Kamala Harris spent a lot of time talking about the middle class, but her own net worth figures in the millions — and growing — thanks to a career of increased public responsibility, smart real estate purchases, and added income and investments from her husband, Doug Emhoff, a high-powered attorney.

On the campaign trail, Harris pledged to strengthen the middle class, which is defined by the Brookings Institution as households with income between $30,000 and $153,000 and includes 60% of all Americans. Her plan included increasing tax benefits to families (while raising corporate tax rates), building affordable new homes, providing assistance to small businesses, and lowering the cost of prescription drugs.

Ultimately, Harris was defeated by Donald Trump by about 2.5 million popular votes and only won 226 votes in the electoral college, losing all seven key “swing” states to Trump. He won a total of 312 electoral votes, thus handily securing re-election.

As the child of immigrants, Harris’ own fortune grew from modest means through her positions as district attorney of San Francisco, U.S. Senator, and eventually Vice President. As a public servant, she’s never made more than $235,000 per year, but she was able to build a seven-figure fortune and is currently writing a book about her experience in the Biden White House that’s rumored to be worth $20 million — the largest book deal for any Vice President in history.

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What is Kamala Harris’ net worth in 2025?

While Donald Trump’s net worth hovers around $4.5 billion as of spring 2025, Harris isn’t anywhere near the billionaire level. Even with her reported new book deal, she would have a long way to go to amass that kind of wealth, although in her 2019 memoir “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” Harris admitted that money isn’t her driving force; rather, “the values [her family] internalized provided a different kind of wealth.”

Forbes estimates that Kamala Harris has a net worth of just $8 million as of March 2025.

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She added $1 million to her bottom line in her four years in office, but it didn’t come from her take-home pay; instead, it was due to appreciation in the value of the home she owns in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Here’s a look at how much Harris has earned by year: 

Kamala Harris’ salaries by year

Had she been elected President, Harris’ paychecks would have risen to $400,000 per year.

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Harris and her husband’s combined net worth

Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, was often referred to as the “first second gentleman” of the United States, a distinction he carried with pride, even using “secondgentleman” as part of his Instagram handle (which is now archived and managed by the National Archives).

Forbes estimated Emhoff’s yearly salary as a media, entertainment, and intellectual property attorney at more than one million dollars in 2019, when Harris announced her first bid for president. She dropped out of the Democratic primaries, but Biden would later pick her to be his running mate.

When Harris took the Oath of Office and moved the family into the Vice Presidential mansion at the United States Naval Observatory, Emhoff stopped practicing law and instead taught as a visiting professor at Georgetown University’s Law School.

Through his career at DLA Piper, Emhoff represented big-name clients like Walmart and Merck. Before that, he co-founded a firm, Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff, which represented cases in the entertainment industry including the firm that created the “Yo quiero Taco Bell” chihuahua.

When it comes to financial assets, according to Forbes, Emhoff brings a “well-funded IRA with dozens of stakes of individual stocks” to the table. 

According to filings, his accounts brought in between $31,200 and $103,500 in interest in 2023; however, most of the couple’s investments are actually in the form of cash accounts, which did not see the same type of appreciation the stock market enjoyed in recent years.

In addition, Harris has local and state pensions from California that she was able to access when she turned 59. They are estimated to be worth $8,200 a month.

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Kamala Harris’ early life and family

Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California. 

She has a mixed-race heritage; Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was an Indian scientist who immigrated to the United States in order to obtain her graduate degree in endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley, and later went on to become a leading breast cancer researcher. 

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Kamala’s father, Donald J. Harris, was a Jamaican of African descent who moved to the U.S. to study economics and eventually earned tenure at Stanford University. Kamala has one younger sister, Maya.

Harris’ family moved across the U.S. as her parents held teaching positions at colleges in Illinois and Wisconsin, although Shyamala and Donald divorced in 1970. Both lived in California for a while before Shyamala accepted a research position at McGill University School of Medicine in Montreal, Quebec. 

Kamala graduated from Westmount High School in Montreal in 1981 before enrolling in Vanier College. She transferred to Howard University, a historically black university in Washington DC, in 1982, where she graduated with a degree in political science and economics in 1986. She then enrolled at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and obtained her Juris Doctor in 1989.

Showing promise from a young age, Harris’ first job was as deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California. She became assistant district attorney in San Francisco in 1998, where she prosecuted homicide, robbery, and sexual assault cases as well as child abuse and neglect cases.

She successfully ran for district attorney of San Francisco in 2002, winning 56% of the vote. Her tenure saw higher bail for criminal defendants, the creation of a Hate Crimes Unit focusing on LGBT justice, and a focus on environmental crimes.

Harris was elected attorney general of California in 2010, becoming the first woman, first Black American and first South Asian American to hold the office. She served two terms before running for U.S. Senate in 2017, filling the seat that Senator Barbara Boxer had vacated. 

Her platform included immigrant protections, stricter gun control laws, and the federal legalization of cannabis. She served on the Senate Budget Committee, Homeland Security Comittee, and Intelligence Committees, among others. 

Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden selected Harris as his running mate on August 11, 2020. She took office as Vice President of the United States on January 20, 2021.

Due to concerns about Biden’s age and health, in July 2024, Biden suspended his re-election campaign and endorsed Harris for president. Her campaign lasted just 107 days, and in her first 24 hours alone, she raised $81 million, the largest single-day total in history.

Doug Emhoff and Former Vice President Kamala Harris at the 2025 NAACP Images Awards in Pasadena, Calif.

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Kamala Harris’ personal life

Harris has dated everyone from former Mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown to daytime talk show host Montel Williams. She met Doug Emhoff through a mutual friend, who set them up on a blind date. They were married on August 22, 2014, in Santa Barbara, California.

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Harris is stepmother to Emhoff’s two children, Cole and Ella, from his previous marriage to Kerstin Emhoff, a film producer.

What properties does Kamala Harris own?

Architectural Digest reports that Harris owned a one-bedroom condo in Oakland as her career took off. 

She next purchased a loft in San Francisco for $489,000 in 2004, later selling it for $799,000 in 2021. 

After moving to Washington, she bought a luxury condo in Dupont Circle for $1.775 million, selling it when she moved into the Vice President’s house for $1.995 million.

But her greatest property asset is the Brentwood mansion Emhoff purchased in 2012 for $2.7 million. When they married in 2014, Harris became the property’s co-owner. It’s estimated to be worth $4.9 million today. 

What other business ventures does Kamala Harris have?

Although Harris is reportedly working on a new book about her experience as Vice President, she is already an author. She has written two memoirs, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey” (2019) and “Smart on Crime”(2009), and a children’s book, “Superheroes Are Everywhere” (2019), which have earned her more than $500,000 in advances and royalties.

What is Kamala Harris doing now?

While Harris did not win the 2024 election, polls are already favoring her as the Democratic party’s frontrunner in 2028. The Hill reports that polls show her with 36% of support of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, well ahead of other candidates like Pete Buttigieg (at 10%), Minnesota Governor and her former Vice Presidential running mate, Tim Walz (5%), Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (5%) and California Governor Gavin Newsom (5%).

And speaking of governor, Harris may decide to throw her hat into the ring for the 2026 gubernatorial race, since Newsom has reached his maximum term limit. Sources tell CBS News she is “seriously considering” a bid, although if she does so, she most likely wouldn’t run in the 2028 Presidential election.

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