The mayor of NYC is Michael Bloomberg. His salary for being mayor? One dollar a year! He is a billionaire many times over and does not hold the position of mayor for the money. Many people may say they do some thing with out money being a motivation, I think in this case, money does not motivate Bloomberg to be mayor. As a matter of fact, Celebrity Net Worth values Bloomberg's net worth at 19.5 billion dollars >>> http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/michael-bloomberg-net-worth/
Bloomberg is 88% owner of the company he created some 30 years ago. He was fired from a brokerage firm and his severance package was ten million dollars. With that $10 million nest egg Bloomberg parlayed that into what is now a multi billion dollar company.
Donald Trump's net worth as listed via Celebrity Net Worth is 2.9 billion dollars. >>> http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/richest-billionaires/donald-trump-net-worth/
Here is what I find as ironic or fascinating. Bloomberg has been working as mayor of NYC for many years now for $1 a year. If I recall, he is on his third term. A law had to be changed to allow him to run the third term, as the previous term length could only be two times. Bloomberg earned over 4 billion dollars in this past year and he did not even work.
Donald Trump's life time assets are valued at 2.9 billion dollars. Bloomberg did not work the past year for his company and he earned over 4 billion dollars. That is such an amusing thought or perception.
Bloomberg is the richest man in NYC and the 8th richest in USA.
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