Watching the government
Three ways to watch the Supreme Court
Tracking Income in the Supreme Court.
How the Court ruled, how the justices split, and what each opinion holds.
The securities the justices disclose buying and selling, from their annual filings.
What justices report earning beyond their public salary, from their annual disclosures.
The nine justices
Each justice, in 2025 and on average.
Roberts
Chief Justice, joined 2005
- In 2025
- $25,000
- Average a year
- $6,547
- 12 reports
Thomas
Joined 1991
- In 2025
- $18,000
- Average a year
- $19,582
- 12 reports
Alito
Joined 2006
- In 2025
- $33,333
- Average a year
- $20,168
- 11 reports
Sotomayor
Joined 2009
- In 2025
- $88,100
- Average a year
- $82,123
- 12 reports
Kagan
Joined 2010
- In 2025
- None
- Average a year
- $8,464
- 12 reports
Gorsuch
Joined 2017
- In 2025
- $330,741
- Average a year
- $213,067
- 9 reports
Kavanaugh
Joined 2018
- In 2025
- $33,285
- Average a year
- $65,380
- 8 reports
Barrett
Joined 2020
- In 2025
- $882,357
- Average a year
- $232,974
- 6 reports
Jackson
Joined 2022
- In 2025
- $1,181,250
- Average a year
- $1,035,938
- 4 reports
Each figure adds the exact amounts printed on a justice’s annual form: book advances and royalties, teaching and fees, and a little salary and other income. Investment income, assets and gifts are not added. Average a year divides the total since 2014, or since joining for a justice who joined later, by the reports counted; pay dated before joining is left out. Alito’s 2014 report is not in Fix the Court’s archive, so it is not counted.
Left out, as dated before joining or beginning 31 or more days before the oath: $67,385 in all, Gorsuch $11,620 (2017 form), Kavanaugh $27,765 (2018 form), Barrett $28,000 (2020 form).
Sources: AO-10 reports, Part III, as posted by Fix the Court.
By year
Outside income, by year.
Each column adds the amounts all nine justices reported for that year. A year before books appear means no book line on the forms we hold, not proof of none. Pay dated before a justice joined is left out, as in the tiles. Alito’s 2014 report is not in the archive, so 2014 is short by one report. Where a form calls a book payment an advance it is counted with books; an advance is not a royalty. That applies to Sotomayor and Jackson.