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Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ)
House · Republican (most recent term) · NJ-4 · in Congress 1981–present · Bioguide ID S000522
Party history: R 1981–present. Source: term data in unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0); party shown is as recorded per term there.
Estimated net worth (from public disclosures)
| Estimate | Report year | Low | Mid | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Estimated net worth at the earliest available report (2017); the member entered office earlier, in 1981 | 2017 | −$250,000 | −$175,000 | −$100,001 |
| (b) Latest net worth estimate | 2025 | $215,003 | $382,502 | $550,000 |
| (c) Estimated gain / loss, nominal dollars, 2017 → 2025 (8 years spanned) | 2017–2025 | +$315,004 | +$557,502 | +$800,000 |
Gain Low = latest Low − earliest High; Gain High = latest High − earliest Low (widest possible spread); Mid = latest Mid − earliest Mid.
Note: earlier annual report(s) for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 exist but could not be used for net worth (scanned/not computable), so the 'earliest' figure is the earliest computable one.
Reliability flags (net worth): no computable net worth for year(s) inside the span: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. Not in the recommended dollar-gain ranking (shown only in the full list).
Net worth by report year (mid; Low–High)
| Report year | Assets (mid) | Liabilities (mid) | Net worth mid | Low … High | Status / flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2014 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2015 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2016 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2017 | $0 | $175,000 | −$175,000 | −$250,000 … −$100,001 | computed |
| 2018 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2019 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2020 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2021 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2022 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2023 | $207,501 | $0 | $207,501 | $115,002 … $300,000 | computed |
| 2024 | $240,002 | $0 | $240,002 | $130,003 … $350,000 | computed |
| 2025 | $382,502 | $0 | $382,502 | $215,003 … $550,000 | computed |
- What this is: Net worth = Schedule A assets (each value range at its midpoint; low–high range shown) minus Schedule D liabilities (midpoints / ranges). Low = assets at range floors minus liabilities at range ceilings; Mid = midpoints; High = assets at ceilings minus liabilities at floors. Low and High are outer bounds of the reported ranges, not likely outcomes.
- What it excludes / understates: exact values (only ranges are reported); a personal residence is not reported as an asset (although a mortgage on it may be listed as a liability, which then lowers the estimate); retirement and federal accounts (e.g. Thrift Savings Plan, defined-benefit pensions) are only partly or not reported; assets of excepted/blind trusts, cash held below reporting thresholds, vehicles, household goods and most spouse/dependent items exempt from reporting are not included; liabilities on a personal residence, revolving credit under thresholds and loans to family may be omitted by filers.
- Open-ended top ranges (e.g. “Over $50,000,000”) are counted at their lower bound and flagged, so such values are understated.
- The change is a change in estimated net worth in nominal dollars (no inflation adjustment). It includes salary, gifts, inheritances, business income and re-valuation as well as investment results, and it is subject to range-bracket noise; it is not an investment return and implies nothing about conduct.
Read this first. Members report asset values only as ranges (e.g. “$15,001 – $50,000”), never exact dollars. Every figure below is an estimate computed from range midpoints, not a measured return. Figures cannot be interpreted as investment performance, and they do not show wrongdoing or skill. Methodology and limitations are at the end and in the project README. Sources: public financial disclosure reports filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and/or the Secretary of the Senate (Senate eFD), linked below.
Limited data – not ranked. Only 2 comparable year-pair(s) could be computed (minimum 3 to rank). 13 annual filing(s) were usable (text-readable, validated OCR, or validated X-mark decoding) and 0 scanned/image-only filing(s) could not be used (older layouts failing validation, small amendments not integrated). See the method-per-year section below.
Estimated year-over-year change
Bars: midpoint estimate; whisker: same-position floor/ceiling band. Axis clipped to −100%…+150%. Years with insufficient traceable holdings are omitted.
| Year (t−1 → t) | Opening value (mid) | Closing value (mid) | Income (mid) | Buys (mid) | Sales (mid) | Est. gain | Same-position band | Strict envelope | Traced coverage | Status / flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013→2014 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2014→2015 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2015→2016 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2016→2017 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2017→2018 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2018→2019 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2019→2020 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2020→2021 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2021→2022 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2022→2023 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2023→2024 | $207,501 | $207,501 | $11,751 | $0 | $0 | +5.7% | +5.2% … +5.8% | -86% … +98% | 100% | counted |
| 2024→2025 | $240,002 | $382,502 | $15,502 | $0 | $0 | +65.8% | +63.6% … +71.9% | -53% … +184% | 100% | counted; single position drives the result (range jump) |
Filings used
Each annual-report year uses one filing (most recently filed version among originals/amendments whose Schedule A row count is ≥ 40% of the largest). Electronic (text) PDFs are parsed. Scanned/image-only filings are OCR-read and used only if they pass the explicit validation gates described in the project README (value/income coverage, two-engine agreement, exact bracket snapping, page completeness, year-to-year position continuity); such years are labelled OCR-derived below. Scanned filings that fail validation are listed as “insufficient data – scanned”.
| Report year | Doc ID | Type | Filed | Schedule A rows | Rows with unparsed value | Source (official filing) / SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10001505 | House annual | 5/9/2014 | 0 | 0 | 10001505.pdf0585eb1f0528e1590c3734b25c1b0113cfb58f519c8e8bbfc09d4575b00d78e0 |
| 2014 | 10008162 | House amendment | 7/29/2015 | 0 | 0 | 10008162.pdffbb8f888ccfd0b1842a402bc285b0d96d104801904d699a793c06e80dbe1ee20 |
| 2015 | 10011887 | House annual | 5/13/2016 | 0 | 0 | 10011887.pdf7985053ab659a2ba6d11e264a24b67c0e65eaf1d9f8ea166e2365ab342f20ab6 |
| 2016 | 10017006 | House annual | 5/15/2017 | 0 | 0 | 10017006.pdf0df2fc5782843d403f746fb1bcef81f99810b67687b6b5184f30a01519b53036 |
| 2017 | 10023240 | House annual | 5/15/2018 | 1 | 0 | 10023240.pdfe0650bd9be72bd898b6dcd94af399179ed1992b448f8e5f0738bd05befb91adf |
| 2018 | 10027738 | House annual | 5/15/2019 | 0 | 0 | 10027738.pdf4ca67a211ec5613993e4a2161f4f7e203c760fbf9ab5bcc097922d844c49d52c |
| 2019 | 10038036 | House annual | 8/11/2020 | 0 | 0 | 10038036.pdfcedbffec202457eea8c4142c28882ecd273193fa7e288384f9bd46ad53e96747 |
| 2020 | 10042306 | House annual | 8/3/2021 | 0 | 0 | 10042306.pdfbdf49b8665a81ff8d07c2558ce748226b4685d7ea5317346c196b07cf9c278f6 |
| 2021 | 10048765 | House amendment | 5/14/2022 | 0 | 0 | 10048765.pdf3e2cf90dd28c1e4d742be4d1e12909e5c7557ef7eac8b49340b088036f46dfc9 |
| 2022 | 10054573 | House amendment | 5/15/2023 | 0 | 0 | 10054573.pdf103a91216268036af345acd2f18e8fc1e7169ad692931160c7b388d25534cbf6 |
| 2023 | 10061508 | House annual | 5/15/2024 | 2 | 0 | 10061508.pdf26c73b1935570d5d0cb93a6ea5dd150e3d6053b6a657a2481a065c15f8639935 |
| 2024 | 10069050 | House annual | 5/15/2025 | 3 | 0 | 10069050.pdfc67f759db90a5f0e0add3fd29e8bb4c73ab18a3bf8f3598762848e0c88c4c755 |
| 2025 | 10077869 | House annual | 5/13/2026 | 3 | 0 | 10077869.pdf09a7d488f949c7f513c83dd79802022fe162a02a9e3a41000b8c860693feb05f |
Largest movers 2023→2024
| Position (as written in filing) | Owner | Kind | Opening range(s) | Closing range(s) | Buys (mid) | Sales (mid) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Synchrony Bank [BA] | JT | held | $100,001 - $250,000 | $100,001 - $250,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Vanguard Money Market (inherited IRA) [BA] | — | held | $15,001 - $50,000 | $15,001 - $50,000 | $0 | $0 |
Largest movers 2024→2025
| Position (as written in filing) | Owner | Kind | Opening range(s) | Closing range(s) | Buys (mid) | Sales (mid) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UFB Direct [BA] | JT | held | $15,001 - $50,000 | $100,001 - $250,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Synchrony Bank [BA] | JT | held | $100,001 - $250,000 | $100,001 - $250,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Vanguard Money Market (Inherited IRA) [BA] | — | held | $15,001 - $50,000 | $15,001 - $50,000 | $0 | $0 |
Method (summary)
- Schedule A asset rows are read from each annual report; the dollar range for each row is converted to its midpoint. Open-ended top ranges (“Over $50,000,000”) are excluded from the traced set and counted as a coverage loss.
- Positions are matched year to year by owner code (self/SP/DC/JT) + normalised asset name. A position that appears only in year t is included only if Schedule B shows a purchase of it in year t (opening value 0); a position that disappears is included only if Schedule B shows a sale (closing value 0). Otherwise it is excluded as unexplained.
- Estimated gain = (closing − opening + reported income − purchases + sale proceeds) ÷ opening, all at midpoints, for the traced positions. “Capital gains” income is not added again (it is already in value change and sale proceeds).
- A year counts only if traced opening value ≥ $50,000 and traced coverage ≥ 60% of the opening midpoint. A member is ranked only with ≥ 3 such years (exactly 2 = “limited data”, shown but unranked). Average = geometric mean of (1+yearly estimate).
Limitations
- Ranges are wide (up to a factor of 5 or more, and up to $50M+ open-ended); a holding can move between ranges without any real change in value, and stay in a range while moving materially. Yearly estimates are therefore noisy; the “strict envelope” shows the mathematical worst/best case and is typically wider than ±100%.
- Purchases and sales are only disclosed as ranges and only for transactions over $1,000; partial sales, dividend reinvestment, spousal/dependent accounts and retirement-plan funds are reported inconsistently. Excepted/blind trusts, personal residences and certain pensions are not reported at all.
- Filers sometimes change how they list assets (e.g. listing a brokerage account vs. its individual holdings), which can make positions untraceable across years; these are excluded rather than guessed.
- Asset values in an annual report are as of Dec 31 of the reporting year; the report year t−1→t covers that calendar year. Late or amended filings are used when filed; extensions can delay them.
- The text of these reports is machine-parsed from PDFs; parse errors are possible. Every number links back to the cited filing. This is not investment advice.
- Use of these filings is restricted by 5 U.S.C. § 105(c) (no unlawful, commercial or credit-rating purpose, and none for solicitation of money).
Generated 2026-10-01 by an automated pipeline. Data: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (disclosures-clerk.house.gov); member roster: unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0).