PARKER SCHNABEL – $80 MILLION

Parker Schnabel made a name for himself as a reality TV star on the hit Discovery Channel series, Gold Rush. At the tender age of 16, the TV personality took over the family gold mine at Big Nugget. He didn’t mind stepping on the gas and operating hefty types of machinery just to learn the trade. As they say, hard work always pays off, and Parker is now worth a whopping $80 million at 26 years old.

He showed the other miners, who are twice his age, that he could make it, and he did it with flying colors. To grow his knowledge more about the business, Parker used his college fund to build his own mining operation and successfully mined 1,029 oz of gold. Isn’t that impressive? The young entrepreneur continuously wows the audience and his family on what he can do, and he is about to show more in his own spinoff series, Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail continues.