Bernard Sanders
What the money shows
Bernard Sanders has an estimated net worth of $979,000. The 2026 campaign raised $24.9M. Bernard Sanders sits on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Sources: House disclosures · Senate disclosures · FEC
Net worth over time
Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.
† Includes one or more open-ended top brackets (over $50M). The high end is a floor, so the true figure may be higher.
Term history
- SenatorVTI2025 – 2031 · 6 yrs
- SenatorVTI2019 – 2025 · 6 yrs
- SenatorVTI2013 – 2019 · 6 yrs
- SenatorVTIHouse → Senate2007 – 2013 · 6 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I2005 – 2007 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I2003 – 2005 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I2001 – 2003 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I1999 – 2001 · 2 yrs
Show 4 earlier terms1991–1999▸
- RepresentativeVT-0I1997 – 1999 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I1995 – 1997 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I1993 – 1995 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0I1991 – 1993 · 2 yrs
If they'd just invested 20%
A disciplined-saver benchmark: 20% of each year's government salary, invested at an assumed 10%/yr return — versus actual disclosed net worth.
Hypothetical, not actual savings — see methodology.
Senator Bernard Sanders, VT
Born September 8, 1941.
Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. A self-described democratic socialist, Sanders is regarded as one of the main leaders of the 21st-century American progressive movement.
Lawrence Sanders is an American-British academic, social worker, politician, and former Health and Social Care Spokesperson of the Green Party of England and Wales. He is the older brother of Bernie Sanders, United States Senator from Vermont and two-time U.S. presidential candidate.
Mary Jane Sanders is an American social worker, college administrator, activist, and political strategist. She was provost and interim president of Goddard College from 1996 to 1997 and president of Burlington College from 2004 to 2011. In 2017, Sanders founded the think tank The Sanders Institute. She has been married to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders since 1988. She has also served as first lady of Burlington, Vermont during her second husband's term as mayor.
Recorded votes
31 recorded votes · 6 Yea · 24 Nay. Most recent first; each links to the bill.
Who else Vermont sends to Congress
2 senators and 1 of 1 House seat filled. Counting this seat.
Seat counts come from the 2020 census apportionment. A seat shows as open when no current member holds it. Source
Bernard Sanders · sources
Only sources that fed this profile are listed here.
| Source | What it gave this page | Last fetched |
|---|---|---|
| @unitedstates congress-legislators github.com | Roster, terms, identifiers, official site link | 2026-11-02 |
| Wikidata www.wikidata.org | Education, career before office, family ties | 2026-07-30 |
| Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org | Quoted descriptors for family rows | 2026-07-30 |
| Federal Election Commission (OpenFEC) api.open.fec.gov | How much the campaign raised, and who gave it | 2026-11-08 |
| The member's official site | Where to reach them. We link out rather than republishing office addresses and phone numbers. | - |