$550 Million
Simon Cowell is a British music executive and television producer who has a net worth of $550 million. Simon Cowell was born in Lambeth, London, England on October 7, 1959. When you total up all of Simon's various business venture incomes, his annual salary regularly exceeds $95 million. After a smattering of odd jobs in his youth, Simon went to work for his father, Eric Philip Cowell, who was an executive at EMI Music Publishing. Initially starting out in the mail room, Simon worked his way up at the company before leaving to form his own label, E&S Music. He then went work at a company called Fanfare Records for eight years until its parent company was sold to BMG. Cowell then formed another label of his own called S-Records.