Nayib Bukele

Nayib Bukele Net Worth 2025: Earnings & Career

Nayib Bukele, the current President of El Salvador, has garnered significant attention for his political career and business ventures. This article provides an overview of his net worth, career, personal life, and more.

Personal Profile About Nayib Bukele

Age, Biography, and Wiki

Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez was born in 1981 in El Salvador. He is a renowned Salvadoran politician and businessman who has been serving as the 81st President of El Salvador since June 1, 2019. Before his presidency, Bukele served as the mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán and San Salvador.

Occupation Politician
Date of Birth 24 July 1981
Age 43 Years
Birth Place San Salvador, El Salvador
Horoscope Leo
Country El Salvador

Height, Weight & Measurements

There is no widely available information regarding Nayib Bukele's height, weight, or measurements.

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Dating & Relationship Status

Bukele is married to Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele, a psychologist and educator. The couple has one daughter and has been involved in various social initiatives focusing on education and cultural development.

In 1999, Bukele established an advertising company and worked at an advertising company owned by his father, Armando Bukele Kattán. Both companies advertised election campaigns for the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) political party. Bukele entered politics in 2011. In 2012, he joined the FMLN and was elected mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán. Bukele served until his 2015 election as Mayor of San Salvador, where he served until 2018. In 2017, Bukele was ousted from the FMLN. He founded the Nuevas Ideas political party shortly afterward and pursued a presidential campaign in 2019. After the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) refused to register his party, Bukele ran for president with the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) and won with 53 percent of the vote.

His father was Armando Bukele Kattán, a businessman and industrial chemist, and his mother is Olga Marina Ortez. Bukele's father died in 2015. Bukele was the couple's first child. He has three younger brothers, Karim, Yusef, and Ibrajim, and has four paternal half sisters and two paternal half brothers. Bukele's father converted from Christianity to Islam in the 1980s, became an imam, and founded four mosques in El Salvador. Bukele's mother is Catholic. Bukele's paternal grandparents were Palestinian Christians who emigrated to El Salvador from Jerusalem and Bethlehem in 1921. His maternal grandfather was Greek Orthodox, and his maternal grandmother was Catholic.

Bukele completed his secondary education at the Escuela Panamericana in 1999 at age 18. Bukele enrolled at Central American University in San Salvador to study judicial science, aspiring to become a lawyer, but dropped out to work for the Nölck advertising agency, one of his father's businesses. Nölck campaigned for the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a left-wing Salvadoran political party.

Bukele created a scholarship program, known as the Dalton Project and funded by his salary, for youth in San Salvador to prevent them from joining gangs. Bukele also created the My New School project to modernize San Salvador's primary schools. In May 2015, he signed an agreement with Panama City mayor José Blandón to establish a sister city relationship between San Salvador and Panama City. In November 2015, Bukele signed an agreement with the Spanish National League of Professional Football to promote sports for San Salvador's youth.

In September 2016, Bukele visited Washington, D.C. and met with Mayor Muriel Bowser to discuss the implementation of urban-development projects. Bukele received the keys to the city of Gaithersburg, Maryland, and 11 September was designated the "Day of Mayor Nayib Bukele" ("Día del alcalde Nayib Bukele"). He visited Taipei in February 2017 and met with Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen to "enhance" the sister-city relationship between San Salvador and Taipei. In February 2018, Bukele attended the 32nd International Mayors Conference in Jerusalem and prayed at the Western Wall.

Bukele's relationship with the FMLN began to deteriorate after he became mayor of San Salvador. He clashed with other party members on Twitter, and frequently resisted FMLN party leadership. Bukele was a strong critic of Salvador Sánchez Cerén, the FMLN president of El Salvador who was elected in 2014. He threatened to leave the party in 2015 if the FMLN-led government reappointed Luis Martínez as the country's attorney general, describing Martínez as "a gangster, very corrupt, [and] the worst of the worst". The FMLN relented and replaced Martínez, and Bukele later admitted that his threat to leave the party "was a bluff".

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Net Worth and Salary

As of 2025, Nayib Bukele's net worth is estimated to be between $1 million and $3 million, with some sources pinpointing it at $3 million. His annual salary as the President of El Salvador is approximately $62,172. However, there are discrepancies in reported figures, with another source listing his annual salary in Indian Rupees, which could be a conversion error.

Bukele created a scholarship program for youths in the municipality, donating his $2,000 salary to fund the program. Bukele launched Sphere PM, a project that launched a high-altitude balloon to an altitude of 100000 ft and took pictures of El Salvador, in August 2014. He stated that Sphere PM's goal was to promote education in science and technology to dissuade the municipality's youth from crime. Bukele spoke at United Nations headquarters about projects he had undertaken as mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán as part of the November 2014 World Cities Day. In January 2015, he inaugurated a $1.7 million boulevard connecting Nuevo Cuscatlán with Huizúcar and Antiguo Cuscatlán. Bukele did much of his mayoral work with funding from ALBA Petróleos, owned by the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA.

During Bukele's presidential campaign, he promised to bring an end to gang violence in El Salvador; El Salvador was considered one of the world's most dangerous countries due to its gang violence. Most of El Salvador's violent crimes were committed by MS-13 and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18). Although they are El Salvador's largest gangs, both originated in Los Angeles. MS-13 was formed in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees fleeing El Salvador's civil war. The 18th Street gang was formed in the 1960s by Mexican immigrants. Much of the gang violence stemmed from income inequality, poverty, poor schools, a lack of job opportunities, and high urbanization.

El Salvador's homicide rate peaked at 107 homicides per 100,000 people in 2015. El Salvador's homicide rate had decreased to 38 homicides per 100,000 people by 2019, still one of the world's highest. Gangs controlled parts of El Salvador, and ordered business owners to pay renta (extortion) for protection or face violence. In early 2019, there were an estimated 67,000 gang members in El Salvador. During his presidency, Bukele enacted tough-on-crime policies that scholars have characterized as successfully reducing gang activity and violent crime, at the cost of arbitrary arrest and alleged widespread human rights abuses.

Career, Business, and Investments

Bukele's wealth primarily stems from his entrepreneurial ventures prior to his political career. He managed and founded several businesses in the advertising and public relations sectors. Additionally, his investments in real estate have contributed to his net worth. During his presidency, his family expanded their real estate portfolio, acquiring 34 properties, including a notable beachfront property in El Flor.

In 1999, Bukele founded marketing company Obermet, also known as 4am Saatchi & Saatchi El Salvador, and was its president from 1999 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2012. The company ran political advertising for the FMLN presidential campaigns of Schafik Hándal in 2004 and Mauricio Funes in 2009. Bukele was president of Yamaha Motors El Salvador, a company that sells and distributes Yamaha products in El Salvador, from 2009 to 2012. During Bukele's business career, he called himself a "businessman with a great future" ("empresario con gran futuro").

Social Network

Although specific details about Nayib Bukele's social media presence are not widely detailed in the available sources, he is known to be active in leveraging social media platforms to engage with the public and promote his policies.

Bukele is highly popular in El Salvador, where he has held a job approval rating above 75% during his entire presidency and averages above 90% approval. He is also popular throughout Latin America. Before his presidency, Bukele considered himself a member of the radical left, but he has since not identified with any political ideology. Political analysts have described Bukele as a populist and a conservative. Bukele has been described by some as authoritarian and an autocrat. Critics say El Salvador has experienced democratic backsliding under Bukele, as he has dismantled democratic institutions, curtailed political and civil liberties, and attacked independent media and the political opposition. In February 2020, Bukele ordered 40 soldiers into the Legislative Assembly building to intimidate lawmakers into approving a US$109 million loan for the Territorial Control Plan. After Nuevas Ideas won a supermajority in the 2021 legislative election, Bukele's allies in the legislature voted to replace the attorney general and all five justices of the Supreme Court of Justice's Constitutional Chamber. Bukele has attacked journalists and news outlets on social media, drawing allegations of press censorship.

In January 2016, the El Diario de Hoy and La Prensa Gráfica newspapers reported that the Búnker digital-programming company had created mirror sites of the newspapers in June 2015 and posted false information in an attempt to damage their reputations; the newspapers described the incident as a cyberattack. In a subsequent investigation by the office of the attorney general (FGR), Bukele allegedly instructed a Twitter user to create the mirror sites. Bukele denied involvement in the creation of the mirror sites. The incident became known as the "Troll Center" case. Five people were charged in relation to the case, but the charges were dropped in December 2017.

Bukele's popularity as mayor of San Salvador led some journalists to believe that he would run for president in 2019, but he denied that he would. He eventually expressed interest in running for president with the FMLN, but the party did not consider him as its vice-presidential nominee. He wrote on social media that the FMLN had purged him, and portrayed himself as an independent politician who rejected the country's political system.

On 15 October 2017, Bukele announced his intention to run for president in 2019 and form a new political party. He announced the establishment of the Nuevas Ideas party on 25 October 2017 on social media, saying that Nuevas Ideas would seek to remove ARENA and the FMLN from power. During his presidential campaign, Bukele and a network of YouTubers, bloggers, and internet trolls attempted to discredit ARENA and the FMLN. Bukele tried to associate the two parties with the governments of previous presidents that were marred by corruption, using slogans such as "There's enough money when nobody steals" and "Return what was stolen". His campaign promises included the creation of an international commission to combat corruption, the development of a trans-national railroad and a new airport, job opportunities for Salvadorans, and reduced crime.

Bukele used social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter extensively throughout his campaign to communicate with his supporters. He did not attend either of the two presidential debates, in December 2018 and January 2019, despite saying that he would attend, claiming that the debate rules were not explained to him. Bukele was the election's front-runner, leading virtually every poll by a substantial margin. His three opponents were ARENA's Carlos Calleja, a businessman who owned the Super Selectos supermarket chain; the FMLN's former minister of foreign affairs Hugo Martínez, and Vamos' Josué Alvarado, a businessman. On election day, 3 February 2019, Bukele defeated Calleja, Martínez, and Alvarado with 53.1 percent of the vote. He was the first presidential candidate to be elected since José Napoleón Duarte (1984–1989) who was not a member of ARENA or the FMLN.

Education

There is limited information available about Nayib Bukele's educational background in the provided sources. However, his career progression suggests a strong foundation in business and political leadership.

In summary, Nayib Bukele's career is marked by both political achievements and business ventures, contributing to his net worth and influence in El Salvador.

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