What was Jackie Robinson worth at death?

Jackie Robinson was an American professional baseball player who died with a net worth of $6 million (adjusting for inflation).

Jackie earned a total of $296,000 in salary throughout his career. After adjusting for inflation, that equates to about $2.8 million. The Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League paid him his first professional salary of $400 per month.

In 1945, he earned a $3,500 signing bonus and a monthly salary of $600 while playing for the Montreal Royals, a minor league team of the Los Angeles Dodgers. In today’s dollars, that signing bonus is worth around $50,000.

Look Magazine paid him $50,000 for the exclusive rights to his retirement photos when he retired in 1957. In today’s dollars, that equates to around $450,000.

After retiring, he went to work for the snack company Chock Full o’Nuts, where he earned $50,000 per year.

Jackie’s six-acre property in Stamford, Connecticut, was his most valuable asset at the time of his death. Jackie constructed the estate in 1955.

Following his death in 1972, his estate was divided into four lots, which were sold off one at a time by his heirs. One of the last remaining lots sold for $1.7 million in 2011.