Four current Goldman Sachs executives aside from Blankfein each own more than $175 million in company stock, including President Gary Cohn, Chief Financial Officer Harvey Schwartz, General Counsel Greg Palm and Vice Chairman John S. Weinberg, who announced his retirement this month.

At the other four major U.S. investment banks, only one current executive holds more than $50 million of company stock: JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon. His stake accounts for almost half of his net worth of about $1.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Tax Lawyer

With undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, Blankfein worked briefly as a tax lawyer before joining J. Aron & Co. as a currency salesman in 1982. The commodities firm had been acquired by Goldman Sachs a year earlier. Blankfein rose through the trading business to the top job at the bank in 2006.

As CEO, he weathered the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and steered the firm back from a reputational nadir, when it faced scrutiny and fines over how it sold mortgage-linked securities.

The recovery helped boost the value of Blankfein’s holdings. He owns 2.24 million shares of Goldman Sachs valued at $472 million based on Thursday’s closing price. He also has 536,582 exercisable options worth about $5 million, according to company filings.

Shares fell 0.8 percent Thursday after the company announced that second-quarter profit tumbled 49 percent on higher legal costs.

Blankfein Foundation

The net-worth calculation excludes unexercisable options, some restricted shares and $5.6 million in stock contributions he has made since 2001 to the Lloyd and Laura Blankfein Foundation, which has given money to Harvard, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School and other educational and arts groups. It also assumes taxes are paid at the highest rate.

Blankfein has received $167.9 million in salary and cash bonuses since 2000. Some of that -- the calculation assumes 25 percent -- as well as pay from previous years went to investments in the firm’s private-equity funds, which have provided Blankfein with more than $200 million of distributions, according to regulatory filings. He also has reaped more than $250 million from stock sales and dividends.

The after-tax proceeds from those sources would be worth $547 million if he invested the money in a blend of stocks, bonds, hedge funds, commodities and cash, assuming a weighted average annual return of 7 percent over the past 15 years, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Bridgehampton Home

His real estate holdings are worth at least $73 million, including a 16th-floor duplex on Central Park West in Manhattan and an 8,000 square-foot, seven-bedroom Bridgehampton, New York, mansion he bought in 2012. Both properties were valued at the price he paid.