Former Secretary, Department of Defense
Mark Esper
First Trump administration.
- Assets disclosed
- $2.8M to $9.7M
- Outside pay
- Not shown
- Trades disclosed
- None
- Took office
- Jul 2019
Assets disclosed: on the 2020 termination filing. The values on Esper’s latest financial disclosure to the Office of Government Ethics, added up as ranges, because the form gives ranges and never exact values.
Outside pay: shown for the current administration only. What the latest form reports was paid to the official to the dollar, outside the public salary, which is set by law.
Trades disclosed: in the filings read through Oct 24, 2026. Transactions on 278-T reports and annual reports, which include a spouse’s and dependent children’s.
Took office: no leaving date on record.
Outside pay is kept for the current administration only. The Office of Government Ethics drops officials from its public portal after they leave, and by law it destroys most reports six years after they are filed. We saved some earlier reports before they went, but no complete set for any earlier administration survives, and a partial record shown as if it were whole would mislead.
Start date: the cabinet record.
Largest holdings
On the 2020 termination filing
- Raytheon Company Deferred Compensation Plan - Non-Qualified: Tracks the Indexes & Funds listed below:$1M to $5M
- Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF$250K to $500K
- Vanguard Institutional Total Stock Market Index Fund$100K to $250K
- Northern Trust S&P 500 Index Fund$100K to $250K
- Janus Henderson Balanced Fund$100K to $250K
- Assets listedEach with a value range
- 68
- Without a valueListed with no dollar range
- 17
Trades
No trades disclosed
In the filings read through Oct 24, 2026
Transactions an official reports on a periodic transaction report within 45 days, and those the annual report lists. Not every official trades: many hold funds, bonds or a blind trust, which make no transaction of this kind.
Net worth
Reported as ranges, so no single net worth
- Disclosed assets
- $2.8M to $9.7M
- Disclosed liabilities
- $365K to $800K
A net worth for Mark Esper cannot be computed from this filing: values are given as ranges, some items carry no value, and a home kept for personal use is not reported.
- Disclosed assets:
- as ranges on 68 line items, plus 17 without a dollar value
- Disclosed liabilities:
- as ranges on 3 line items
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
The form lists each debt over $10,000 owed at any time during the period it covers, including one repaid before the period ended. A few kinds are left off, such as a debt to a close relative. The filer’s own notes on these debts:
- SunTrust Mortgage 1: “My wife and I co-owned this residence with another couple, before selling it in May 2020.”
- SunTrust Mortgage 2: “My wife and I co-owned this residence with another couple, before selling it in May 2020.”
Kept since Aug 28, 2026. Federal law generally requires a filing to be destroyed six years after it was received, unless it is needed in an ongoing investigation.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2020 termination filing.
Holdings
On the 2020 termination filing, largest range first
- Raytheon Company Deferred Compensation Plan - Non-Qualified: Tracks the Indexes & Funds listed below:$1M to $5M
- Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF$250K to $500K
- Vanguard Institutional Total Stock Market Index Fund$100K to $250K
- Northern Trust S&P 500 Index Fund$100K to $250K
- Janus Henderson Balanced Fund$100K to $250K
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
The form lists each debt over $10,000 owed at any time during the period it covers, including one repaid before the period ended. A few kinds are left off, such as a debt to a close relative. The filer’s own notes on these debts:
- SunTrust Mortgage 1: “My wife and I co-owned this residence with another couple, before selling it in May 2020.”
- SunTrust Mortgage 2: “My wife and I co-owned this residence with another couple, before selling it in May 2020.”
Kept since Aug 28, 2026. Federal law generally requires a filing to be destroyed six years after it was received, unless it is needed in an ongoing investigation.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2020 termination filing.