Chad Berger Net Worth 2026: PBR Stock Contractor Career

Chad Berger is a North Dakota stock contractor who owns Chad Berger Bucking Bulls and has been named PBR Stock Contractor of the Year 12 times. No reputable outlet publishes a current net worth figure for him. The $12.5 million number on the old version of this page was credited to Celebrity Net Worth, but we could not find that figure on the site, so it has been removed. His wealth comes from breeding, owning and hauling bucking bulls, and from producing bull riding events.

What is Chad Berger's net worth?

There is no published, verifiable estimate, and Berger has not discussed his finances. His company is private. What the record shows is a family operation that runs two ranches, in Mandan, North Dakota, and Henryetta, Oklahoma (Sports Illustrated), manages more than 200 bulls (KFYR-TV), and has raised several world champion bulls. Bucking bull operations earn from bull fees at events, prize money, breeding and sales, and event production, but none of those numbers are public for his business.

Chad Berger's yearly earnings and income

The old page said "an investigation done by Forbes" put his yearly income at $500,000. We found no such Forbes report, and the figure and its monthly and daily breakdowns have been removed.

What we can say is how the business makes money:

• Bulls at events. His bulls buck at PBR events up to the World Finals, and at top rodeos.
• Event production. He runs his own summer event in Bismarck, the Dakota Community Bank & Trust PBR Bull Riding Challenge, and in 2022 he co-created the King of the North series with event producer Adam Libby. The ten-event series pays its champion a $100,000 bonus, and Berger has said individual events carry purses of $30,000 to $40,000 (PBR).
• Order buying. YETI, which sponsors him, describes him as an order buyer of cattle for more than 20 years.

Berger told KFYR-TV he began with "a little 30-foot trailer" and a few bulls, and that investors backed him as the operation grew (KFYR-TV).

Early life and family

Berger calls himself a fifth-generation Berger from the St. Anthony and Mandan area, where he was born and still lives (KFYR-TV). His father, Joe Berger, started buying bulls in the 1960s for Chad and his brother to ride, and went on to raise three world champion bulls in five years, including Little Yellow Jacket, the PBR's first three-time world champion bull (2002–2004). Joe Berger died in December 2020 at 84 (PBR).

Chad competed in every rodeo event he could in high school, then rode bulls, then took up team roping after retiring from riding (Sports Illustrated).

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Chad Berger's wife

Berger is married to Sarah Berger, who works with him on the ranch and manages the company's annual PBR Touring Pro event (Sports Illustrated, KFYR-TV). The couple have three children who have worked in the business. Their youngest daughter, Sadie, has handled sales, marketing and social media for the company and began flanking bulls at top-level PBR events in 2020 (PBR).

Education

Sources confirm Berger competed in high school rodeo (KFYR-TV). The old page named Mandan High School and said he started his business while still in school; we could not confirm the school, and the company was actually founded in 2003, so that claim has been removed.

Professional life

Sources: Sports Illustrated, KFYR-TV, KFYR-TV, The Cowboy Channel.

Smooth Operator was about 10 years old when he won his second world title in 2020, an age Berger compared to a 70-year-old NFL quarterback (The Cowboy Channel). Berger is also a member of the Bull Riding Hall of Fame (KFYR-TV).

Charity work

The old page linked Berger to Cowboys for Cancer Research and the PBR's rider outreach programs. We could not confirm either in the sources we checked, so those claims are left out.

Age, height and weight

No reliable source gives Berger's birth date, height or weight. The figures on the old page (44 years old, 5 feet 8 inches, 75 kg) had no source; given that he rode bulls before founding his company in 2003 and has adult children, the age was almost certainly wrong. They have been removed.

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Why there is no reliable figure

Chad Berger Bucking Bulls is a private family company with outside investors in some of its bulls, so ownership of the animals is shared and its revenue is not reported. Land, cattle and event businesses are hard to value from the outside. Until a credible outlet publishes a figure, the honest answer is that his net worth is not known.