The Dana White net worth sum of $300.8 million comes from 16 years of UFC salary and his portion of the $4 billion sale of the UFC to WME-IMG. White had a 9% stake in Zuffa, the company that owns the UFC. The rest was owned by the Fertitta brothers (81%) and Flash Entertainment (10%). White’s portion of the sale price is $360 million. The Fertitta brothers got $1.62 billion each. That’s not bad at all for a $2 million investment made 16 years ago. The blood and sweat was put in by White, who gave Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta the heads up in 2001 that the UFC was up for sale. His 9% interest in the company was basically granted by the brothers back then as a finder’s fee for the deal. Since then, White has worked like a bulldog to promote and manage the UFC, earning a salary that reached $17 million a year in 2016. He has earned a total of $142 million in UFC salary since 2001. Coupled with his $360 million from the sale of the UFC on 7/11/16, that’s a total lifetime earnings of $497 million. U.S. federal taxes take $197 million of that and expenses take another $24.9 million, leaving the final Dana White net worth number at $300.8 million. That’s more three times what it was yesterday. To check our math, scroll down to the tables below. Other sites that place White’s net worth higher likely don’t figure for taxes and expenses.
"Sport is going to the next level."
Dana White confirms UFC's $4B sale to new ownership: https://t.co/v4xuvWeDFa pic.twitter.com/UIHzxmwkLV
— ESPN (@espn) July 11, 2016
Dana White Net Worth Facts
Dana White Net Worth Facts | |
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Dana White net worth | $228,604,598 |
Dana White net worth vs Frank Fertitta net worth | 1/11th as big |
Dana White net worth vs Lorenzo Fertitta net worth | 1/11th as big |
Dana White net worth vs Jon Jones net worth | 36 times bigger |
Dana White net worth vs Miesha Tate net worth | 131 times bigger |
Dana White net worth vs Canelo Alvarez net worth | 27 times bigger |
Dana White net worth vs Floyd Mayweather net worth | 25% smaller |
Dana White net worth vs Jay Z net worth | 46% smaller |
Dana White net worth vs Hillary Clinton net worth | 9 times bigger |
Dana White net worth vs typical American family net worth | 4,423 times bigger |
The Dana White net worth total of $300.8 million is triple what it was yesterday. That’s because of the UFC’s $4 billion sale to WME-IMG. Most of the $4 billion goes to brothers Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, who held 40.5% of Zuffa Inc. each. After the sale, the Fertitta brothers now have net worths of $3.22 billion each. That’s 11 times as much as Dana White’s net worth. Looking at some UFC fighters, Dana White’s net worth is 36 times bigger than Jon Jones’ net worth of $8.4 million. It’s 131 times bigger than Miesha Tate’s net worth of $2.3 million and 27 times bigger than Canelo Alvarez’s net worth of $11 million. Outside the UFC, Floyd Mayweather’s net worth of $403 million is 25% bigger than Dana White’s net worth. Jay Z’s net worth of $554 million is 46% bigger and Hillary Clinton’s net worth of $32 million is nine times bigger. The chart below shows how White’s wealth has shot straight for the moon in just one day.
Dana White Net Worth Timeline
Dana White Net Worth by Year | |
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Dana White net worth 2001 | $210,500 |
Dana White net worth 2002 | $432,999 |
Dana White net worth 2003 | $668,179 |
Dana White net worth 2004 | $2,179,766 |
Dana White net worth 2005 | $4,409,012 |
Dana White net worth 2006 | $6,765,326 |
Dana White net worth 2007 | $9,255,950 |
Dana White net worth 2008 | $11,888,539 |
Dana White net worth 2009 | $14,671,185 |
Dana White net worth 2010 | $19,717,443 |
Dana White net worth 2011 | $27,998,337 |
Dana White net worth 2012 | $36,751,242 |
Dana White net worth 2013 | $46,003,063 |
Dana White net worth 2014 | $55,782,238 |
Dana White net worth 2015 | $66,118,825 |
Dana White net worth 2016 | $228,604,598 |
The Dana White net worth story started out in his early years, when he was an aerobics and boxing instructor. Looking to expand his repertoire, White began managing boxers Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. In 2001 he learned that the UFC was up for sale. He reportedly contacted his childhood friends Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta about the opportunity. At the time the Fertitta brothers were managing Station Casinos in Las Vegas. Less than 30 days later the Fertittas jumped on the deal, buying the UFC for just $2 million and installing White as its president, paying him a salary and giving him a 9% stake in the business as a carrot to get him to perform. White performed beyond the wildest expectations of the brothers, turning the UFC around from a money-losing venue to a multi-billion dollar industry in just a few years. White’s salary grew to $17 million a year by 2016, but the real payoff came with the July 2016 sale of the UFC to WME-IMG, an American sports and talent agency.
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Dana White Net Worth Sources: Salary and UFC Sale
Dana White Net Worth Sources | |
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UFC Sale 2016 | $360,000,000 |
Total Salary Since 2001 | $142,000,000 |
Total Dana White Earnings | $497,000,000 |
Dana White Salary (average) | $17,000,000 |
Taxes (No state tax in Nevada) | $262,913,000 |
Expenses | $24,850,000 |
Investments | $17,187,833 |
Dana White Net Worth | $228,604,598 |
The UFC was sold for $4 BILLION. Staggering turn from the $2 million the Fertitta brothers invested 15 years ago to get it.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) July 11, 2016
The UFC Sale
Dana White Net Worth from Salary
Until July of 2016, the sole source of the Dana White net worth numbers was his salary. Some online estimates place that salary as high as $20 million a year while several others claim it’s more like $15 million. Since White and the Fertitta brothers don’t publish his salary, the real figure isn’t known. We took a rough average of the Dana White salary numbers published online to arrive at $17 million in 2016. White almost certainly wasn’t making that much right off the bat though. In the early days of the UFC’s ownership by Zuffa, he more probably made something like $500,000. We used the Google Trends analysis below to gauge the UFC’s popularity in the intervening years and estimate White’s salary growth as a function of his success. Note that in the image, we’ve compared the UFC’s popularity to that of singer Drake and Leonardo DiCaprio as a measuring stick. As White grew the UFC’s renown, we grew our estimates of his salary, ending at the media-consensus of $17 million today.
Dana White Net Worth from UFC Zuffa Salary | |
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Year | Dana White Salary |
2005 | $5,000,000 |
2006 | $5,000,000 |
2007 | $5,000,000 |
2008 | $5,000,000 |
2009 | $5,000,000 |
2010 | $10,000,000 |
2011 | $17,000,000 |
2012 | $17,000,000 |
2013 | $17,000,000 |
2014 | $17,000,000 |
2015 | $17,000,000 |
2016 | $17,000,000 |
Total Dana White Net Worth from UFC Salary | $142,000,000 |
Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta Net Worth
- Lorenzo Fertitta net worth: $3.22 billion
- Frank Fertitta net worth: $3.22 billion
- Combined Fertitta brothers’ net worth: $6.44 billion
Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta own Zuffa Inc., the company that sold the UFC to WME-IMG. The Fertittas were casino executives when Dana White approached them about the opportunity to buy the UFC in 2001.
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Dana White Net Worth Calculations
The table below shows Dana White’s total earnings from salary and the sale of the UFC, by year. It also shows the Dana White net worth adjustments from taxes, expenses and investments. That column is negative because even though investments put up a good fight, taxes and investments are a lot bigger and beat the number down.
Dana White Net Worth Calculations | |||
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Year | Total Dana White Earnings | Adjustments for Tax, Expense, Investment | Dana White Net Worth |
2005 | $5,000,000 | -$2,770,753 | $4,409,012 |
2006 | $5,000,000 | -$2,643,686 | $6,765,326 |
2007 | $5,000,000 | -$2,509,376 | $9,255,950 |
2008 | $5,000,000 | -$2,367,411 | $11,888,539 |
2009 | $5,000,000 | -$2,217,353 | $14,671,185 |
2010 | $10,000,000 | -$4,953,742 | $19,717,443 |
2011 | $17,000,000 | -$8,719,106 | $27,998,337 |
2012 | $17,000,000 | -$8,247,095 | $36,751,242 |
2013 | $17,000,000 | -$7,748,179 | $46,003,063 |
2014 | $17,000,000 | -$7,220,825 | $55,782,238 |
2015 | $17,000,000 | -$6,663,412 | $66,118,825 |
2016 | $377,000,000 | -$214,514,227 | $228,604,598 |
Dana White Net Worth Totals | $497,000,000 | -$262,651,351 | $228,604,598 |
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