Bruce Springsteen will always live up to his nickname as ‘The Boss’ even when it comes to paying his band a fair share. The “Born to Run” musician is one of the few musicians who have the title as a billionaire.
Born and raised in a working class family in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen exploded in stardom after being a local musician at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He achieved massive success when he released his record Born In the USA to critical acclaim. Springsteen became a staple in American rock and has consistently toured for his career with his backing band The E Street band.
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Now, his rise to fame is the center of a new biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White. “They tend to be the most interesting moments of your life,” Springsteen told Good Morning America about the movie. “At the end of the day, you know, when you’re making your way through some sort of crucible, hopefully to come out the other side with some knowledge gained, some greater sense of self, and a story to tell.”
What Is Bruce Springsteen’s net worth?
Bruce Springsteen’s net worth is $1.2 billion, according to Forbes. The site reported that he earned a majority of his wealth from selling his catalog in 2021, which is estimated to be around $500 million. However, according to The Big Picture, his kids won’t be earning a penny from his music catalog sale after he dies.
Springsteen had the biggest tour earnings of his career in the summer of 2025. Billboard reported that in his Springsteen and the E Street Band 2023 – 2025 tour, it grossed $729.7 million and sold 4.9 million tickets. On a nightly basis, he grossed at $5.7 million sold an average of 37,900 tickets per show. In his career, grossed nearly $2.3 billion from 22.6 million tickets sold across 1,028 shows. The site reports that he’s only the 5th artist to pass the $2 billion threshold.
However, when he was asked about his billionaire status, Springsteen denied still having that much money. “I’m not a billionaire,” he told The Telegraph. “I wish I was, but they got that real wrong. I’ve spent too much money on superfluous things.” Celebrity Net Worth reports his net worth is $750 million.
He does believe that he’s earned the right to enjoy his “good fortune,” having “put the work in.” But he won’t let material goods be in the way of his life. “That’s usually where people go south,” Springsteen says of those who laud money as the end goal. “If I had failed at that, I would have failed at everything, in my opinion.”
Another reason why Bruce Springsteen denies having a lot of money is because he compensates pretty well. “I pay them a tremendous amount of money,” Springsteen said of his E Street Band at a showing of his new documentary in London. “That greases the wheels pretty good. And then I’m a pretty nice boss. The truth is you need to cast your band well. If you get the art right, the music right, and the band right, you go out and play every night like it’s your last night on Earth. That was the serial philosophy of the band, and we’re sticking to it.”
However, when it comes to stardom, his kids don’t bother with it anyways. He shares three children—Evan, Jessica, and Samuel—with wife and E Street band member Patti Scialfia. The musician told The Times, “The kids grew up in another house in town, a midsized home not unlike the ones their friends lived in, and we tried to keep a very natural domestic existence for them. Anything else is a burden they don’t need.”
Springsteen described himself as an “attention whore”, and that his kids don’t see the appeal in his fame. “They ignore it,” the Born in the U.S.A. singer said. “They might come to a show, bring their friends, but it’s never been a central part of their lives.”
“We had our kids late, I was 40 when our first son was born, and they showed a healthy disinterest in our work over all the years,” he told the New York Times in 2017. “They had their own musical heroes, they had their own music they were interested in. They’d be pretty blank-faced if someone mentioned a song title of mine.”