Charles Ergen

Charles Ergen (#142)

Global Rank #142

Country Rank #59

Country United States

Part of management is to figure out how you're going to do things, and to be creative on how you're going to do things, and to prove the skeptics wrong.

$ 19 B
Satellite TV
United States
M
73 Years

Snapshot

Quick Facts

Global Rank #142

Country Rank #59

Net Worth $19.3B

Previous Worth $19.3B

Worth Change +$0.0B

Country United States

Industry Satellite TV

Age 73 Years

Gender M

Worth As Of May 4, 2026

Residence Denver, Colorado

Citizenship United States

World Billionaires List United States Billionaires Satellite TV

Profile Data

Personal Stats

Age 73

Source Of Wealth Satellite TV, Self Made

Self Made Score 8

Philanthropy Score 1

Residence Denver, Colorado

Citizenship United States

Marital Status Married

Children 5

Education Master of Business Administration, Wake Forest University School of Business; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Net Worth Change +$0.0B +0.0% from previous worth

Previous Net Worth $19.3B

Current Net Worth $19.3B

Worth as of May 4, 2026

About Me

Charlie Ergen is the cofounder and chairman of satellite and internet service company EchoStar. Ergen first began selling satellite dishes out of the back of a truck in Colorado in 1980. In 1995, EchoStar went public and also launched its first satellite, birthing pay TV subsidiary Dish Network. Ergen spun off Dish into a separate company in 2008 and remerged the businesses in December 2023, again under the EchoStar name. Today, the company has more than 7 million pay TV subscribers.

Achievements

Forbes List Highlights

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#178

Billionaires (2026)

#168

Forbes 400 (2025)

Ranked

The Richest Person In Every State (2017)

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Did You Know?

Ergen is the son of an Austrian-born nuclear physicist who worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Ergen is an avid mountain climber who has reached the Mount Everest base camp.

Wealth Growth

Net Worth Growth Over Time

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Current Net Worth: $19.3B (May 4, 2026)