Jensen Huang’s $151 billion fortune: How much are Nvidia CEO’s wife, children and family worth?

Jensen Huang, the 63-year-old co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia, is at the centre of the most turbulent week of his three-decade career.

His personal fortune, built almost entirely on Nvidia stock, stood at roughly $151 billion on Wednesday by Forbes’ real-time estimate, down sharply from a peak near $200 billion just last month.

His salary-and-stock pay package, by contrast, was a comparatively modest $36.3 million for the latest fiscal year.

And the people closest to him, including a wife who runs the family’s multibillion-dollar foundation, two adult children who both work at Nvidia and a famous distant cousin who runs a rival chipmaker, each sit in very different financial positions.

How much is Jensen Huang worth right now?

On November 11, Forbes’ real-time tracker put him at about $151.2 billion, up roughly $4 billion on the day, after his fortune briefly dipped below $150 billion on November 10.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index showed about $150.9 billion in early November, which pushed him down several places in its ranking.

The swings have been dramatic. Earlier in the fall, Forbes had him at roughly $187 billion on October 27 and well above $170 billion at the start of November.

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After Huang admitted to an affair in a message to employees on Sunday, November 8, Forbes reported that his fortune fell by about $9.7 billion in a single trading session, a drop of around 6 per cent, and that Nvidia shares had lost about 22 per cent over the prior month, erasing roughly $45 billion of his wealth.

Late Wednesday, Nvidia shares fell more than 8 per cent in after-hours trading on reports that the board was preparing to remove him, which means Thursday’s estimates are likely to move lower again when markets open.

Reuters calculated that Nvidia has lost about $600 billion in market value this week.

Because of his roughly 3.6 per cent stake, every $10 move in Nvidia’s share price shifts Huang’s paper wealth by several billion dollars. That is why his fortune can rise or fall by more than his entire lifetime salary in a single afternoon.

What is Jensen Huang’s salary and annual pay from Nvidia?

Huang’s actual earnings as an employee are tiny compared with his net worth, but they are still large by corporate standards. Nvidia’s 2026 proxy statement, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on May 12 reports that Huang’s total compensation for the fiscal year ended January 25, 2026, was $36,343,830.

That package was made up of a base salary of $1,497,627, stock awards valued at about $24.8 million, a $6 million cash incentive payout and roughly $4.05 million in other compensation.

The cash incentive was doubled from a $3 million target because Nvidia’s fiscal 2026 revenue of $215.9 billion far exceeded the stretch goal set by the board.

The figure was a 27 per cent decline from the $49.9 million he was awarded the year before, driven mainly by lower stock-award values.

In fiscal 2024 his reported pay was about $34.2 million. Nvidia disclosed a CEO-to-median-employee pay ratio of 129 to 1, with the typical Nvidia employee earning about $282,050.

The $36.3 million is roughly 0.02 per cent of his estimated net worth.

So, where is the real money?

Nvidia’s proxy shows Huang beneficially owning about 870.6 million shares, or 3.58 per cent of the company, as of March 23, 2026. Roughly 58.7 million of those shares are held through the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation.

Most of the rest sits in family trusts rather than in his own name. His latest Form 4 filing, dated September 18, listed about 811.5 million shares, including approximately 467.7 million in a living trust held with his wife, about 109 million in one irrevocable trust, about 31 million in another irrevocable trust and about 70 million held directly.

Huang has been a steady seller under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plans in past years. The most recent publicly described plan, adopted in March 2025, provided for the sale of up to 6 million shares by the end of 2025.

One wealth tracker that reviewed his filings through October 30 reported no open-market sales by Huang in 2026.

Whether he may sell during the current investigation, and how any departure from the company would affect his unvested stock awards, will depend on his award agreements and trading policies.

What does Lori Huang earn?

Huang and his wife, Lori Huang (née Mills), met as electrical engineering students at Oregon State University and married in 1985.

She left the chip industry to raise the couple’s children and today serves as president of the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation, a private foundation in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2007. Jensen Huang is its secretary and chief financial officer.

The foundation’s assets consist mostly of Nvidia shares and are estimated at more than $9 billion, though that number moves with the stock price. Tax filings show that neither Lori nor Jensen Huang draws compensation from it, and that it has no paid staff.

Giving has risen with the stock as at least $120 million went out in 2024, most of it to a donor-advised fund the couple controls at Charles Schwab.

Publicly known gifts include $50 million to Oregon State University for an AI-focused innovation complex and about $30 million to Stanford University for the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center.

Lori Huang has no disclosed salary or executive role at Nvidia. Her personal wealth is effectively tied to the same community-property holdings as her husband’s.

What do Jensen Huang’s children earn?

Huang and his wife have two adult children, and both work at Nvidia.

Madison Huang joined Nvidia in 2020 while completing an MBA at London Business School, after a stint at the luxury group LVMH.

She is now senior director of product and technical marketing for Nvidia’s physical-AI platforms, a post she reached in March 2025. Nvidia’s proxy disclosed that her total compensation for fiscal 2026 was approximately $1.23 million.

Spencer Huang joined in 2022 after running a bar in New York that he closed in 2021 and earning an MBA from NYU. He is director of product management for robotics software.

His total fiscal 2026 compensation was approximately $1.32 million, according to the same filing.

Nvidia says neither child is an executive officer, shares a household with their father or reports directly to him, and that their pay was set under standard practices for comparable employees without his involvement.

Madison’s husband, Nico Caprez, who she married this year, is a vice president for global AI infrastructure growth at Nvidia. His pay has not been disclosed in the proxy.

The children’s own net worths are not public, and no reliable figure exists for any trust interests they may hold. Nothing in the public filings establishes who benefits from the family’s irrevocable trusts.

Both have been floated as possible successors since the scandal broke. In an October interview with Bloomberg, Huang said he hoped the next CEO was already inside the company and that if either of his children wanted the job, “they have to go earn it.”

Prediction-market chatter and analyst commentary have instead favoured longtime Nvidia executives, among them Ian Buck, who leads the data-centre business.

What do we know about Huang’s extended family?

Huang was born in Taiwan, spent part of his childhood in Thailand and, as a boy, was sent to the United States with his older brother. The brothers famously ended up at the Oneida Baptist Institute in Kentucky, a school the family had mistaken for a prestigious boarding academy.

Their parents later joined them in the United States. Huang’s older brother, Jeff, is not a public figure, and no earnings or net worth for him or for Huang’s parents have been disclosed.

The best-known relative is Lisa Su, chair and chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia’s chief rival in AI chips.

Researchers have confirmed that the two are related through Huang’s mother’s side of the family. Huang’s mother is the sister of Su’s maternal grandfather, which makes them first cousins once removed. Su has described them as distant relatives and said they never met at family dinners growing up.

Su’s own wealth is also tied to her company’s stock. Estimates vary widely, from about $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion in some trackers to about $2.7 billion in a Forbes figure cited in August.

Her fortune is a small fraction of her cousin’s.

What does the scandal mean for the Huang family’s wealth?

Nvidia has 11 directors, all but Huang considered independent, and no board chair. Analysts note that the company has no formal succession plan and that Huang has said he does not believe in one.

Some experts have suggested the board could keep him while adding oversight, while others, including former SEC chair Gary Gensler, told CNN that his removal likely.

A decision to remove Huang would not strip him of his shares. His fortune would continue to rise and fall with Nvidia’s stock, and a leadership vacuum has been the main driver of the recent selloff.

Investors have warned that losing a founder who has led the company for 33 years could weigh on the share price, with Reuters quoting one fund manager who said the market is starting to price in Nvidia without its founder.

For the Huang Foundation, a lower share price shrinks its asset base and, in turn, the pool of funds available for future grants.

The board’s decision, the outcome of the independent investigation, the November 18 congressional briefing and the next Nvidia trading session will each reshape the picture of the Huang family’s finances.

With inputs from agencies