What Congress is worth
Every member files an annual financial disclosure listing what they own and what they owe. Those filings never state a number — each asset and debt is reported as a bracket — so every figure here is a range, and the midpoint exists only to sort by.
Why some members look deeply in debt
A personal residence is not a reportable asset, but the mortgage on it is a reportable liability. So a member with a large home loan and few securities shows a deeply negative net worth without being in any financial difficulty. That is a quirk of the disclosure rules, not a finding about them — which is why the second board below is labelled “lowest reported net worth” and not “poorest”.
House
604 members with at least one parsed annual filing.
Wealthiest
Bar shows the full reported range; the tick is the midpoint. ▸ marks a member holding an asset reported as “over $50,000,000”, which has no upper bound.
Lowest reported net worth
Mostly a ranking of mortgage debt: the loan is reportable, the home securing it is not.
Senate
Wealthiest
Bar shows the full reported range; the tick is the midpoint.
Lowest reported net worth
Mostly a ranking of mortgage debt.
How these are calculated
- Assets come from Schedule A of the annual report, liabilities from Schedule D. Stock trades (Schedule B) are transactions, not holdings, and are excluded.
- The minimum pairs the lowest possible assets with the highest possible debts, and the maximum does the reverse. That is what a bound means — a narrower band would be a guess.
- Where a member filed an amendment, the latest filing for that year supersedes the earlier ones.
- Two members whose ranges overlap are not meaningfully ranked against each other. The ordering is by midpoint because a list needs an order, not because the difference between adjacent rows is real.
Source: Clerk of the House, Financial Disclosure Reports. Updated 2026-08-22.