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Pete Ricketts
Before officeBusinessperson · Governor · Union Pacific Railroad · TD Ameritrade · Platte Institute for Economic Research
File · Money Read
What the money shows
Pete Ricketts has an estimated net worth of $270.8M. The 2026 campaign raised $9.3M. Outside groups had $871,629 spent against Pete Ricketts and $1.6M spent for Pete Ricketts. Pete Ricketts sits on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water and East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy.
Sources: House disclosures · Senate disclosures · FEC
Est. net worth
$271M
$128M+
Years in role
3
Senator since 2023
Net-worth filings
3
+$110M since 2023
File A — Net Worth
Net worth over time
Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.
midpoint disclosed range govt salary
source filing →† Includes one or more open-ended top brackets (over $50M). The high end is a floor, so the true figure may be higher.
File C — Service
Term history
- SenatorNER2024 – 2027 · 3 yrs
- SenatorNER2023 – 2024 · 1 yrs
File D — Benchmark
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 retirement actual net worth salary
Hypothetical, not actual savings — see methodology.
File — Background
Senator Pete Ricketts, NE
Born August 19, 1964.
Studied at
University of Chicago · Booth School of Business [wikidata]
Before office
2009-2019Chicago Cubslast job before office
2007-2013Platte Institute for Economic Research
2007-2013American Enterprise Institute
1993-2006TD Ameritrade
1 employer held back.
Family money
father · sourced role
Joe Ricketts [source]
John Joseph Ricketts is an American businessman. He is the founder, former CEO and former chair of TD Ameritrade. He has an estimated net worth of US$4.1 billion as of 2024, according to Forbes. He has pursued a variety of other business ventures including DNAinfo.com, High Plains Bison, The Lodge at Jackson Fork, and The American Film Company. Ricketts also engages in philanthropy through The Ricketts Art Foundation, Opportunity Education Foundation, The Cloisters on the Platte Foundation, and The Ricketts Conservation Foundation. He and his family have been the owners of the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball since October 2009.
sibling · sourced role
Laura Ricketts [source]
Laura Marie Ricketts is an American political activist and former attorney who is co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago Stars Football Club. Ricketts is also a board member of Lambda Legal and the Housing Opportunities for Women organization. Ricketts's ownership stake in the Cubs makes her the first openly gay owner of a major-league sports franchise.
sibling · sourced role
Thomas S. Ricketts [source]
Thomas Stuart Ricketts is an American businessman and executive who is the chair of the Chicago Cubs in Major League Baseball (MLB). and chair, co-founder, and former CEO of Incapital LLC, a firm that provides securities firms and individual investors more efficient access to corporate bonds. Together with his sister Laura and brother Todd, the Ricketts siblings are the board of directors for the Cubs. He is the son of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation founder J. Joseph Ricketts. Joe Ricketts had a net worth of US$2.3 billion as of 2018 according to Forbes.
sibling · sourced role
Todd Ricketts [source]
Todd Matthew Ricketts is an American businessman and politician who is a co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, a former member of Charles Schwab & Co. board of directors, and a former Republican National Committee Finance Chair.
File — The 2026 race
Nebraska · Senate
General election 2026-11-03. Money figures are FEC filings for the 2026 cycle.
The read · Nebraska · Senate
Pete Ricketts leads the field on money raised.
Republican Pete Ricketts leads the field with about $9.3M raised.
Dan Osborn reports 97% of campaign money from individuals.
$1.6M in itemized outside money is on file, led by FELLOWSHIP PAC.
Public campaign-finance filings, 2026 cycle. Candidate rows are filers on record, not final ballot lists. Totals are rounded to whole dollars.
The tale of the tape
Money, side by side. Green marks the leader on each line.
Pete Ricketts R · incumbent | vs |  Dan Osborn I · challenger |
|---|---|---|
| $9.3M | Raised | $5.7M |
| $6.9M | Cash on hand | $2.4M |
| 18% | From PACs | 2% |
| 24% | From individuals | 97% |
| Ideological / Leadership | Top donor sector | Too few to rank |
| Yes | Incumbent | No |
Contractor money
Federal contractors who funded this member
This is a documented association, not a claim that campaign money caused an award.
Bills
Recorded votes
31 votes · 25 Yea · 6 Nay. "Sector money" is this member's corporate and union money from the sector each bill touches. Receipts, not a claim about the vote. Money-linked votes first.
1–15 of 31
File — The Nebraska delegation
Who else Nebraska sends to Congress
2 senators and 3 of 3 House seats filled. Counting this seat.
Seat counts come from the 2020 census apportionment. A seat shows as open when no current member holds it. Source
File — Where this page comes from
Pete Ricketts · 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 | 2026-07-30 |
| 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 | 2026-09-23 |
| The member's official site | Where to reach them. We link out rather than republishing office addresses and phone numbers. | - |