Hakeem Jeffries

01Overview

02Reconcile the Estimate

Members of Congress do not report a net worth. They report each account, investment and debt in a value range, such as $15,001 to $50,000, once a year. Jeffries's report for 2025, filed May 15, 2026, lists 37 assets and eight debts for himself, his wife and their children¹. We count his and his wife's holdings at the middle of each range and leave out the children's accounts and their student loan. Personal homes are not reportable as assets, but the mortgages on them are listed, so we add estimated values for the Brooklyn condo and the Washington co-op and net the debts against them.

How the $1.5M Estimate Is Built

Solid: holdings counted from a filing value, a market price or a public record. Hatched: values we modeled or estimated, including values taken from disclosed ranges.

Scenarios: Where Inside the Ranges

Every disclosed figure is a range, so the honest answer is a range too.

Results are rounded to the nearest $100,000. Children's accounts and loan, the book and the pensions with undetermined values are left out of all three.

All accounts and debts from his House financial disclosure for 2025 (filed May 15, 2026, document 10076550). Debts are reported by the highest amount owed during the year, which can be more than was owed at year end; we use their midpoints as a proxy. Home values are our assumptions, based on neighborhood and building sales; see the sections on the two homes. Whose wealth this is: the household's, his and his wife's, since House reports combine them and much of it is held jointly.

Not observable: What the two homes are worth (they are not reported, and the home equity makes up about 60% of our estimate), where each account falls inside its range, and what his pensions are worth. The ranges alone put the financial accounts anywhere from about $302,000 to $1,005,000, and the debts from about $500,000 to $1,130,000.

03Published Estimates

Neither site publishes enough of its method for us to reconcile its figure to ours. Leaving out the homes cannot be the whole story: his accounts less all his debts at midpoints come to about minus $161,000, not $659,000 or $513,000. Quiver's figure is close to the accounts alone (about $654,000 at midpoints), so it likely counts the accounts and leaves out both the homes and the mortgages on them. We have not been able to confirm how either site treats debts, his wife's holdings or the children's accounts.

04Positions

05How the Fortune Was Built

06Profile

07What the Disclosure Shows

Jeffries's savings are ordinary and mostly passive. The largest single lines are an HSBC bank account, a Merrill Edge position in the SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (both $50,001 to $100,000) and a Northwestern Mutual whole life policy ($50,001 to $100,000). His traditional IRA holds five broad index funds, his wife's retirement plans hold Vanguard, Fidelity and BlackRock funds, and the joint brokerage account holds dividend and real estate ETFs. He reported no individual stocks and only a handful of small fund trades in 2025, several of them in a child's account¹.

The debts are larger than the investments at their midpoints: a mortgage of $250,001 to $500,000 on the Brooklyn home taken out in March 2021, a home equity line of $100,001 to $250,000 from June 2022, two debts on the Washington co-op, and three credit cards in his wife's name¹.

08His Pay

Rank-and-file members of the House earn $174,000, a figure unchanged since 2009. As Democratic Leader he earns $193,400, and as Speaker he would earn $223,500³. His wife works for Manhattan Legal Services of New York; House reports do not require the amount of a spouse's salary¹. His children's picture book, The ABCs of Democracy, paid $50,001 to $100,000 in royalties in 2025, under a publishing agreement the House Ethics Committee approved¹.

09The Brooklyn Condo

Jeffries bought his Brooklyn condo in 2007. It sits in a building that receives New York City's 421-a tax abatement, which cut its property tax to about $213 a year in 2022 and runs until 2032, as The Washington Times reported; his spokesman said he bought it before a 2007 change to the program². A political opponent described it as a $1.2 million apartment.

No purchase price or unit size has been published, so we value it from the neighborhood. The building sits on the border of two markets: PropertyShark put the median condo sale in Prospect Heights at about $1.6 million and in Crown Heights at about $638,000 for the third quarter of 2026, with condos in both trading near $1,000 a square foot⁵. We use $1.2 million, between the two, and test $1.0 million and $1.4 million in the scenarios. At about $1,000 a square foot, $1.2 million matches a unit of roughly 1,200 square feet; a smaller unit would be worth less. If a sale price or official assessment is published, it replaces this assumption.

10The Washington Co-op

The Washington home is a co-op in Capitol Hill Tower, near the Capitol. In a co-op the building carries a mortgage of its own, and each owner's share of it is paid through the monthly fee. Sale prices in the building include that share: buyers finance the price less the share. Recent sales show the range: a one-bedroom of 767 square feet sold for $390,000 in June 2024, a one-bedroom of 760 square feet for $415,000 in February 2024 (with $95,624 of building mortgage), and a two-bedroom of 800 square feet for $493,500 in February 2025 (with $100,010 of building mortgage)⁶.

Jeffries reports his share of the building mortgage at $100,001 to $250,000, at least as large as the two-bedroom's share, which points to a unit at least that size¹. We use a gross value of $500,000, which includes the building mortgage share, and subtract both that share and his own Truist loan. The scenarios test $400,000 and $600,000.

11From the Disclosure to the Estimate

This table shows how the reported ranges become one number. The disclosure figures are his; the home values and the choice of midpoints are our assumptions.

Excluded: a dependent child's accounts (about $3,000 to $46,000) and student loan ($15,001 to $50,000), the book and his wife's pension (both reported as undetermined), and his federal pension (not reportable).

12Frequently Asked Questions

13Sources and Method