Brent Scarbrough Net Worth 2026: Contractor, Company

No reputable outlet has published a net worth estimate for Brent Scarbrough. The $271 million figure that circulates online comes from low-quality profile sites that cite no evidence, so we do not repeat it as fact. What is documented is how his money was made: he started a Georgia site-work contractor in 1985 while still in college, built it over three decades, and in 2017 sold the entire company to its employees.

What is Brent Scarbrough's net worth?

There is no Forbes listing, no public filing and no credible press estimate of Scarbrough's personal wealth. His company, Brent Scarbrough & Company (BSC), is privately held, and the price its employees paid for it through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan was never made public. That sale price would be the main input for any honest estimate, and it is not available.

What can be said with confidence is that his wealth is tied to three things: the value of the business he built from 1985 to 2017, the proceeds of the 2017 sale of BSC to its workforce, and property he owns in the Brooks area south of Atlanta, which The Citizen reports he and his wife open for nonprofit events. Anyone quoting a precise nine-figure number is guessing.

Yearly earnings, income and salary

Earlier versions of this page listed a yearly income of $12 million, a monthly income of $1 million and a daily income of $34,000. None of those numbers traces back to any source, and we have removed them. Scarbrough's salary as chief executive has never been disclosed, and since 2017 the company's shares have belonged to its employee ownership plan rather than to him.

The scale of the business gives some context. The Org lists BSC with 201 to 500 employees, and the company's project portfolio includes work for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, BMW, Costco, Amazon and Chick-fil-A. A contractor of that size handles projects worth millions of dollars each, but company revenue is not the same thing as its founder's personal income.

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Early life and education

Scarbrough studied at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia, and is listed by Kennesaw State University as a member of the class of 1986. Southern Polytechnic merged into Kennesaw State in 2015. He founded his company in 1985, during his junior year, so the business was already running before he graduated.

Older profiles claimed he later earned a master's degree and gave his age, height and weight. We could not find any source for those details and have taken them out.

Professional life: building Brent Scarbrough & Company

BSC describes itself as a heavy civil site contractor offering turnkey site development across the Southeast. In practice that means the work that happens before a building goes up: demolition, clearing, grading, underground utilities and site preparation. The Citizen describes the firm as based in Newnan, Georgia, working across commercial, industrial, healthcare, residential, aviation and renewable energy sectors.

Key dates

• 1985 - founds the company as a junior at Southern Polytechnic State University (Kennesaw State).
• 1986 - graduates from Southern Polytechnic.
• 2017 - sells the company to its employees through an ESOP, making it 100% employee-owned (company site).
• 2020 - named one of the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Most Admired CEOs.
• 2025 - the company marks its 40th year; Kennesaw State installs the first Brent Scarbrough and Company Endowed Chair.
• 2026 - receives the Better Community Award from Business Women of Fayette & Coweta.

Notable projects

The company's website lists dozens of jobs. Among them:

• Aviation: Concourse T, a cargo project, Delta ground support equipment work and a Concourse D expansion (which won an ABC merit award) at Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta.
• Industrial and data centers: the BMW plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina; a Chick-fil-A distribution center in Cartersville; Niagara Bottling in Opelika, Alabama; and data center sites in Douglasville, including Project Silver, which took first place in the AGC Build Georgia awards.
• Healthcare: the Shepherd Center family tower, Emory Winship, an Emory parking deck and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
• Commercial: Assembly Yards movie studios in Doraville, the Georgia State University Convocation Center, Costco stores and road frontage for the Rivian site at Stanton Springs.
• Renewable energy: solar sites in Spotsylvania and Charles City, Virginia.

The 2017 employee buyout

Selling a company to an ESOP lets a founder cash out while keeping the business independent and in the hands of the people who run it. BSC says the move made it fully employee-owned and now uses ownership as a recruiting pitch. Scarbrough stayed on as chief executive; Kennesaw State still described him as founder and CEO in October 2025.

Recent news (2025-2026)

Kennesaw State endowed chair. In October 2025, Kennesaw State University installed professor Brian Moore as the inaugural Brent Scarbrough and Company Endowed Chair in Construction Management. The university says Scarbrough and his company provided the impetus for a $1 million endowment, the first endowed faculty post on the Marietta campus. The fund supports faculty research, student competitions, study abroad and lab equipment.

Community award. In February 2026, Business Women of Fayette & Coweta gave Scarbrough and his wife its Better Community Award. The Citizen reported that the couple have hosted many nonprofit fundraisers on their Brooks property and pavilion, and that the group's founder had worked alongside Scarbrough and his son on a home-building mission trip to Guatemala.

Public safety training center work

BSC was a site contractor on the Atlanta public safety training center in DeKalb County, a project that drew organized protests. In late 2023, FOX 5 Atlanta reported that company equipment at a Clayton County site was set on fire by vandals police linked to opposition to the project, and that the firm offered a $10,000 reward on top of $200,000 from government partners. Earlier, SaportaReport reported that a DeKalb commissioner and an environmental group sent a notice of intent to sue the city, the Atlanta Police Foundation and the contractor over alleged missing sediment ponds. The report noted that the recipients had not yet commented.

Wife and family

Previous versions of this page named his wife as "Jenny." Local press coverage in 2026 identifies his wife as Tina Scarbrough, who accepted the Better Community Award alongside him. The same article mentions a son, Landon. We do not publish other details about his family.

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Net worth compared

Scarbrough fits a pattern common among regional construction founders: large private businesses with no public valuation. Anthony Consigli runs a family-owned construction firm in New England, and no official figure exists for his wealth either. In both cases, the company's size and projects are known, but the owner's personal balance sheet is not.

How we checked this page

We checked the founding year, education and 2017 ESOP sale against the company's own website and Kennesaw State University. Recent events come from The Citizen, FOX 5 Atlanta and SaportaReport. We removed the unsourced income figures, age, height, weight and master's degree claim. We also corrected his wife's name and dropped the empty contact details section. If a reputable outlet publishes an estimate of his wealth or the ESOP sale price, this page will be updated.