Simone Biles Net Worth 2026: The $25M Gymnastics Fortune

Simone Biles net worth in 2026 is an estimated $25 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth and Parade, with most other 2026 outlets landing on the same figure. The most decorated gymnast in history — 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals — built that fortune almost entirely away from the competition floor, through endorsement deals that Forbes puts at roughly $10–11 million a year.

That last point is what surprises most people. Gymnastics pays almost nothing in prize money: Parade calculated Biles’s entire career haul from Olympic bonuses at roughly $147,500. The real money came from brands — Athleta, Visa, United Airlines, Nike before 2021, Uber Eats, MasterClass, GK Elite, Powerade and Oreo — plus her Gold Over America tours, a bestselling memoir and a Netflix documentary series. This page breaks down every stream, the year-by-year growth, the Texas lakefront home she moved into in February 2026, and how her fortune compares with other Olympic greats. Figures are estimates from named sources, and where those sources disagree, we show the range.

Last updated: November 10, 2026.

Quick Facts: Simone Biles at a Glance

From Foster Care to the Gym in Spring, Texas

Simone Arianne Biles was born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio. Her early childhood was unstable: her birth mother struggled with substance abuse, and at the age of three Simone and her siblings entered foster care. Her maternal grandparents, Ron and Nellie Biles, adopted Simone and her younger sister Adria and raised them in Spring, Texas, a suburb north of Houston. Ron and Nellie became the steady centre of her life, and Nellie later co-founded the gym where Simone would train.

Gymnastics found her almost by accident. On a daycare field trip to Bannon’s Gymnastix in Houston, six-year-old Simone started copying the gymnasts she saw, and the coaches noticed. She began training seriously, and by her early teens she was homeschooled so she could train for up to 32 hours a week. The family built its life around the sport: Ron and Nellie opened the World Champions Centre in Spring in 2014, giving Simone a home gym run by her own family.

There was no family money behind any of this. Reporting on her background, including a detailed 2026 look at her home and finances, stresses that Biles did not grow up wealthy — her fortune was built entirely from her own performance and the brand deals that followed it. That matters when judging the $25 million figure: it is self-made in the most literal sense, earned medal by medal and deal by deal, not inherited or seeded by family wealth.

For the full story of her childhood, her coaches and the road to the national team, our sister site’s Simone Biles biography covers the early years in detail, including the foster-care years and her first national titles.

The Rise: Rio, the Twisties, and the Paris Comeback

Biles announced herself on the senior stage in 2013, winning her first U.S. all-around title and then the world all-around title in Antwerp at 16. She went on to win seven U.S. all-around titles between 2013 and 2021, and her World Championship medal count climbed to 30 — more than any gymnast, male or female, in history. Five of her skills carry her name in the Code of Points, including the Yurchenko double pike on vault, a skill no other woman had performed in competition before she landed it.

Rio 2016 made her a global star. At 19 she became the first American gymnast to win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games — team, all-around, vault and floor — plus a bronze on beam. Five medals at one Games, and a level of dominance that had the gymnastics world talking about her as the greatest of all time before she turned 20. The endorsement money followed within months: Nike signed her in 2015, and after Rio the deals stacked up with Kellogg’s, Hershey’s, Beats Electronics, GK Elite and more.

Tokyo 2020, held in 2021, tested her in a different way. Mid-Games she developed the “twisties” — a dangerous loss of spatial awareness in the air — and withdrew from most events to protect herself, returning to win bronze on beam and a team silver. The decision was mocked by some at the time and is now widely seen as a turning point in how elite sport talks about mental health. It also, paradoxically, raised her commercial value: brands wanted the athlete who had stood up for herself, and her post-Tokyo profile was bigger than her pre-Tokyo one.

Paris 2024 completed the comeback story. At 27, an age when most gymnasts have long retired, Biles won three more golds — team, all-around and vault — plus a silver on floor, taking her Olympic medal total to 11. Her age has become part of the story itself, and our Simone Biles age profile tracks how old she was at every Olympic Games. The Paris cycle pushed her net worth estimates up sharply: outlets that had her at around $16 million before the Games moved her to $20–$25 million after it, as the sponsorship cycle peaked and the Gold Over America Tour returned to arenas across the United States.

As of late 2026 she has not announced a decision on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. She has said she will take the decision year by year, and at 29 her competitive future is genuinely open — which matters for her finances, because another Olympic cycle would mean another peak endorsement window.

Simone Biles Net Worth Breakdown: Where the Money Sits

The $25 million figure is an estimate, not a bank balance Biles has ever confirmed. Here is how the sources line up — and where they part company.

The consensus: Celebrity Net Worth puts Biles at $25 million, and Parade’s 2026 profile agrees at $25 million. BounceMojo, WealthyGarage and The Spun all published $25 million estimates during 2026. That is the figure we anchor on, because it is the one the most independent outlets converge on.

The lower end: InfoCelebs estimates around $20 million for 2026, and a 2026 property-focused profile citing Celebrity Net Worth gave a range of $16–$20 million. The gap between $20 million and $25 million is the honest spread for a private fortune: nobody outside Biles’s own accountants knows her tax bills, her spending, or what share of her endorsement income she kept after agents and managers took their cut.

The outlier: Grizzly Bulls, a modelling site that builds bear/base/bull scenarios, published a base case of $35 million in 2026 (bear $22 million, bull $55 million), built by accumulating her endorsement years and treating retained earnings generously. It is a model, not a reported figure, and it sits well above the reporting consensus — we note it here for completeness and do not anchor on it.

Put together, the defensible range is $20–$25 million, anchored at $25 million. That range is consistent with the one hard earnings anchor in the public record: Celebrity Net Worth reports she earned at least $20 million from endorsements between 2019 and 2021 alone. Three years of deals at that pace, plus everything since, makes $25 million a careful estimate rather than a stretch.

The Endorsement Machine: Athleta, Visa, United Airlines and More

Endorsements are the whole story of Simone Biles’s wealth. Competition pays her almost nothing; brands pay her millions a year, and have done for a decade. Forbes estimated she was earning at least $5 million a year from endorsements as far back as 2021, and its 2024 reporting put her 2023 earnings at $7.1 million, with about $7 million of that coming from endorsements and only around $100,000 from gymnastics itself. By 2026, coverage from multiple outlets put the annual endorsement figure at roughly $10–11 million.

The deal that defines her commercial career is Athleta. Biles signed with Nike in 2015, but in April 2021 she left the sportswear giant for Gap Inc.’s Athleta in a long-term partnership that included a signature product line — a move widely read as a statement about athlete autonomy, since Athleta built the deal around her voice on athlete welfare rather than just her medal count. She has been with Athleta ever since, and the partnership is the single most valuable brand relationship in her portfolio.

Visa has been with her through multiple Olympic cycles, a long-running sponsorship that peaks around each Games. United Airlines, another multi-cycle partner, ties her to travel and to the team’s journeys to competitions. The rest of the portfolio shows the same pattern — big, stable, family-friendly brands that want the most trusted name in American gymnastics: Uber Eats, MasterClass, GK Elite (her leotard supplier through most of her career), Powerade, Oreo, Hershey’s and Kellogg’s.

What makes the portfolio unusual is its durability. Most Olympic athletes earn in four-year spikes and fade between Games. Biles has held top-tier deals continuously since 2016, through a two-year break from competition, through the Tokyo withdrawal, and into her late twenties. That continuity is why the estimates kept climbing even in years when she was not competing: the brands stayed, and the fees rose with her profile. In 2022 she made Forbes’ list of the highest-paid female athletes, coming in at No. 10 — the only gymnast on a list dominated by tennis and football stars.

Her endorsement power also explains why she could afford to be selective after Paris. With roughly $10–11 million a year coming in from brands, she does not need to compete to stay wealthy, and she does not need to tour. That financial independence is part of why her LA 2028 decision is genuinely hers to make.

Tours, Books, and Screen Deals

The Gold Over America Tour is Biles’s biggest venture outside endorsements, and the one where she is an owner rather than a hired face. She is a co-producer and the headliner of the tour, which plays arenas in more than 30 American cities — a gymnastics showcase built like a pop concert tour, with ticket sales, merchandise and VIP experiences. The 2021 edition followed Tokyo; the 2024 edition followed Paris and was the bigger commercial success of the two. Exact tour earnings are not public, but as a co-producer she takes a share of the revenue rather than a flat appearance fee, which is the difference between a payday and a business.

Her book, Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance, published in 2016, was a New York Times bestseller and remains in print a decade later. Memoir advances and royalties are never disclosed, and some low-quality sites have attached invented multi-million figures to the book — we do not repeat those. What is safe to say is that a bestselling memoir from a 19-year-old Olympic star, still selling through the Paris cycle, is a steady royalty stream rather than a one-off cheque.

On screen, the Netflix documentary series Simone Biles Rising (2024) followed her return to competition ahead of Paris and gave her a producer’s stake in telling her own story — the modern athlete’s version of owning the rights rather than renting out her image. Earlier, she competed on season 24 of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars in 2017, finishing fourth, a mainstream television appearance that widened her audience well beyond gymnastics fans.

Speaking engagements round out the portfolio. Reporting on her post-Paris work puts her keynote fees at more than $200,000 per appearance, with corporate audiences paying for the mental-health and resilience story as much as for the medals. A handful of those talks a year adds seven figures to her annual income without a single backflip.

Olympic Prize Money: The Smallest Slice

Here is the figure that best explains the economics of gymnastics. Parade calculated Biles’s entire career haul from Olympic prize money at roughly $147,500 — less than two percent of her estimated net worth. The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee pays medal bonuses — $37,500 for gold, $22,500 for silver and $15,000 for bronze at current rates — and for Paris 2024 her three golds and one silver came to a $135,000 payday. But the rates were lower in 2016, and the lifetime total across 11 medals is, by Parade’s arithmetic, about $147,500.

World Championship medals pay even less, and national titles pay nothing at all. Gymnastics, unlike tennis or golf, has no prize-money circuit: there is no purse to win, no appearance fee for competing, no ranking bonus. An athlete at Biles’s level earns from being famous, not from winning — which is why the endorsement portfolio, not the medal count, is the real measure of her wealth.

That is also why comparisons with other sports can mislead. A footballer or a tennis player converts wins directly into money; a gymnast converts wins into a brand, and then converts the brand into money. Biles is the best in history at both halves of that equation.

Real Estate and Assets: The Texas Lakefront Home

The most visible asset in Biles’s portfolio is the lakefront home she built with her husband Jonathan Owens in Texas. Construction began in 2023, the builders finished in 2025, and the couple moved in during February 2026. Property reporting in 2026 put the finished home’s value at around $2.5–$3 million — a substantial house, but a modest one by celebrity standards, and consistent with the couple’s reputation for spending carefully rather than extravagantly.

That relative restraint shows up across her lifestyle reporting. There are no fleets of supercars, no string of investment properties, no fashion-label launch attached to her name. The public record shows one main home, the family gym in Spring — the World Champions Centre, owned by her family — and a business built on her own name rather than on property speculation. Some outlets have tried to attach car collections and investment portfolios to her, but none of those claims carry a named source, so we do not repeat them here.

What is documented is the business infrastructure around her: the tour co-production, the Athleta signature line, the book and documentary rights, and the speaking business. Those are the assets that will keep paying after she stops competing — which is the point. A gymnast’s body has a short shelf life; her brand, built over a decade of winning and two comebacks, does not.

Net Worth Growth Timeline: From Under Five Million to Twenty-Five

Biles’s wealth grew in steps tied to Olympic cycles, not in a smooth line. Each Games added medals, each medal window added deals, and the deals compounded between Games. The table below uses the figures reported by the outlets named — all estimates, and all labelled as such.

The 2018 figure deserves a note. BounceMojo’s year-by-year series has her at roughly $6 million in 2018, which sits oddly against the post-Rio estimates of around $10 million — a reminder that year-by-year net worth tables are reconstructions, not audited accounts, and that different outlets count retained earnings differently. The direction of travel is what matters, and every source agrees on it: up sharply after each Olympic cycle, with the biggest single jump coming after Paris.

One more pattern worth naming: Biles’s wealth did not stall during her two-year break from competition in 2021–2023. The Athleta deal, the tour, the book and the speaking work kept the income flowing while she was away from the sport. That is the difference between a fortune built on fame and a fortune built on results — and it is why her net worth kept growing in years when she won nothing at all.

How She Stacks Up: Gymnasts and Olympic Greats

Within gymnastics, Biles stands alone. Parade notes she is the richest gymnast in the world, ahead of American teammate Shawn Johnson, whose net worth Parade puts at $9 million. No other gymnast comes close to her endorsement income, because no other gymnast has her medal record, her longevity or her mainstream fame. The gap between first and second in the sport is not measured in millions — it is measured in multiples.

The more interesting comparison is with Olympic greats from other sports, where the economics are different. Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, built a fortune several times larger on a similar endorsement model — but he did it in swimming, a sport with a far bigger American television audience and a longer commercial runway. Biles’s achievement is to have built a $25 million fortune in a sport that pays its athletes almost nothing directly, which makes her endorsement-per-medal ratio arguably the best in Olympic history.

Among current track stars, the comparison runs through Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson, the sprinters who dominate the sport’s headlines the way Biles dominates gymnastics — all three turned Olympic gold into brand power in sports where the prize money is a footnote. Serena Williams is the closest parallel of all: another American woman who turned dominance in an individual sport into a business empire, though Williams’s fortune is far larger, built over a 27-year career and a string of investments Biles has not yet attempted.

Outside the Olympic world, the model is the same one Tiger Woods and Roger Federer perfected — a decade or more at the top, a small group of premium sponsors held for years, and income that keeps flowing long after the competitive peak. Biles is earlier in that arc than either man, and at 29 she has time to extend it. For more athletes who turned sporting dominance into lasting wealth, see our Net Worth section.

Personal Life: Marriage to Jonathan Owens

Biles married NFL safety Jonathan Owens in April 2023, in ceremonies in Houston and then Cabo San Lucas. Owens, who played college football at Missouri Western and entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent, has played for the Houston Texans, Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears, and now plays for the Indianapolis Colts. Some 2026 coverage puts his own net worth at roughly $2 million from his NFL contracts, and the couple’s combined net worth at around $27 million — though that combined figure is an estimate built by adding two separate estimates together, and should be read with that in mind.

The marriage shapes her finances in practical ways. The Texas lakefront home was a joint project, built while Owens’s career took him to Green Bay and Chicago and hers kept her based in Spring. When Owens played for the Bears, the couple maintained a base in Chicago as well as in Texas. Those are the ordinary logistics of two professional athletes married to each other, and they explain why the couple’s property story is a single main home rather than a portfolio.

Family remains the centre of her life off the mat. Her grandparents Ron and Nellie, who raised her, are still closely involved — Nellie co-founded the World Champions Centre — and her siblings and extended family feature regularly in her public appearances. She has spoken openly about her Catholic faith, and about the foster-care years that shaped her, in her book and in interviews.

On the question of children, Biles has said she and Owens plan to start a family after her competitive career ends — another reason the LA 2028 decision and the family decision are linked, and why her next few years will matter more for her finances than the last few did.

Advocacy: Speaking Out on Abuse and Mental Health

Any honest account of Biles’s public life has to include the Larry Nassar case. Biles was one of the hundreds of gymnasts abused by the former USA Gymnastics team doctor, and in 2018 she publicly identified herself as a survivor. In September 2021 she testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee alongside other survivors, telling senators that she blamed not only Nassar but the institutions — USA Gymnastics and the FBI — that failed to stop him. Her testimony was widely credited with keeping pressure on the case when attention might have moved on.

The Tokyo withdrawal in 2021 was the second half of that story. By stepping back mid-Games and naming the twisties and her mental health as the reason, she changed the conversation about athlete welfare in a way no press release could have. The commercial effect was the opposite of what the old logic would have predicted: her brand got stronger, not weaker, because audiences and sponsors responded to an athlete who set her own limits in public.

She has carried that advocacy into her business choices. The Athleta partnership was built explicitly around athlete welfare and her voice on the subject, and her speaking work leans heavily on mental health and resilience. It is a through-line from the Senate hearing room to the keynote stage — and it is part of why brands keep paying her. In a market where audiences punish inauthenticity, an athlete whose public positions cost her something is worth more than one whose positions cost nothing.

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Sources and Reporting

How we estimated: Simone Biles has never disclosed her finances. The $25 million anchor comes from Celebrity Net Worth and Parade’s 2026 profile, with BounceMojo, WealthyGarage and The Spun publishing the same figure. Lower estimates ($20 million from InfoCelebs; a $16–$20 million range in property reporting) are shown as the bottom of the range. Grizzly Bulls’ $35 million base case is a modelled scenario, not a reported figure, and is noted as an outlier. Endorsement income is the only stream with hard reported numbers (Forbes: at least $5 million a year in 2021; $7.1 million earned in 2023; ~$10–11 million a year in 2026 coverage), which is why the estimate leans on it. Estimates may differ from private reality.

Named sources used in this article: Parade, Forbes, Celebrity Net Worth, BounceMojo, WealthyGarage, The Spun, InfoCelebs, Netflix, ABC. Career and medal facts were checked against the public record of the Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the World Gymnastics Championships. Where sources disagreed — most notably on the headline figure — this article publishes the range and names the source behind each end of it, rather than picking one number and hiding the rest.