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Ron Vachris Net Worth (2026)
Ron Vachris is President & CEO of Costco (COST). Most of a public-company CEO’s on-paper wealth is their stake in that company — anchored here on the number you can verify.
ANCHORING FROM FILINGS
We’re matching Ron Vachris’s latest SEC beneficial-ownership filing to compute the verified stake value. In the meantime, the full pay breakdown and the COST workspace are live. We only publish the stake once it traces to a specific filing — no guesses.
At a glance
| Company | Costco (COST) |
| Title | President & CEO |
| Verified stake | — |
| Shares owned | — |
| Latest total pay | $14M breakdown → |
| Age | ~61 |
HOW THIS IS CALCULATED
We take the shares Ron Vachris reports owning in their most recent SEC Form 4 and multiply by the latest share price. That gives a stake value you can check against the filing itself. Everything beyond that stake — real estate, private holdings, cash, past compensation — is estimated or simply not public, and we say so rather than roll it into one number.
BIOGRAPHY
Ron Vachris was born on Staten Island in 1965 into a Greek-American family, the son of a utility lineman. He studied business at a community college in Arizona and started at the bottom of the warehouse-club business, driving a forklift for Price Club in the early 1980s while still in school.
He rose through store and regional management after Price Club merged with Costco in 1993, eventually becoming a senior corporate executive and then president and chief operating officer. In January 2024 he became chief executive, succeeding Craig Jelinek, carrying on Costco’s membership-and-warehouse model.
Vachris is a hired executive who rose from forklift driver to the top. His Costco stake came from stock compensation over a long career, the anchor of this figure.
Born 1965 · Glendale Community College (AZ)
CAREER
NOTABLE
- Started as a part-time forklift driver at Price Club in 1982 and rose over four decades to run Costco.
- Still wears his employee name tag daily, including in executive meetings, as a signal of the company culture.
COMPENSATION HISTORY · from SEC proxy statements
| Fiscal year | Total pay |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $14M |
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The stake value is filing-derived and verifiable; any broader “net worth” is an estimate. Share counts are the latest reported on SEC filings and change as the executive trades; the price is the last close, so the stake value moves with the market. This is not an official or complete accounting of anyone’s wealth. Educational only — not investment advice.
