Charles Wax Net Worth 2026: WAXIE Sanitary Supply Chairman

No reputable outlet has published a net worth figure for Charles Wax. He is the longtime head of WAXIE Sanitary Supply, a San Diego cleaning supply distributor his father and uncle founded in 1945. In 2018 he described it as the largest family-owned sanitary supply distributor in the United States. The $10 million figure that used to appear on this page had no source and has been removed.

What is Charles Wax's net worth?

There is no reliable estimate. WAXIE is privately owned by the Wax family and does not publish sales or profit figures, and no business publication has valued the company or Wax's stake in it. What is on the record is the size of the business. In a 2018 interview with SDVoyager, Wax said WAXIE had 20 locations in nine western states and almost 900 employees. He also said revenue had grown more than a hundredfold since he joined full time in 1972. A distributor of that size is worth far more than the old $10 million figure, but how the family's ownership is divided has never been made public.

Charles Wax's yearly income and salary

His pay has never been published. The old page listed $500,000 a year, $42,000 a month and $1,400 a day. None of these figures came from a source, so they have been removed. As an owner of a private family company, his income would depend on salary and distributions that WAXIE does not disclose.

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WAXIE Sanitary Supply

Wax told SDVoyager that his father, Morris Wax, and his uncle Harry started San Diego Janitor Supply in downtown San Diego in 1945 with a few employees. The company became WAXIE and now sells cleaning products, paper goods, floor care machines, hand hygiene systems and repair services. Its customers include schools, hospitals, offices and stadiums.

Figures from the 2018 interview give a sense of its size:

In the same interview, Wax described a fire that destroyed WAXIE's Idaho Falls branch in March 2015. Staff found and leased a new building within two months, and customers whose machines were lost in the fire got new ones free of charge.

Wax gave the company's staff much of the credit for its growth. He said more than 100 employees had been with WAXIE for over 20 years, and 50 for over 30. He named government regulation as the hardest part of running the business, especially rules that differ between cities, states and federal agencies, such as California's new product-labeling requirements. He said the company planned to keep growing through new products, including greener cleaning options. During San Diego's hepatitis A outbreak, WAXIE helped local agencies choose a surface disinfectant.

Career

• Age 12 – Starts working summers and school breaks at the family company, sweeping floors and labeling products, according to WAXIE's executive page.
• Age 20 – Graduates from San Diego State University with a degree in accounting.
• 1972 – Joins WAXIE full time.
• Later – Becomes CEO and chairman of the board.
• 2015 – Leads the rebuild after the Idaho Falls branch fire.
• October 2025 – Honored by ISSA, the cleaning industry's trade association, which calls him WAXIE's former president and CEO.

Early life and family

Wax grew up in San Diego in the family that founded the business. The old page said he was born in a small town and set up a foundation for people in need. We found no source for either claim, so both have been removed.

Charles Wax's wife

Wax is married to Randi Wax. San Diego Jewish World reported in 2020 that Randi is the daughter of Hal and Helen Cohen, for whom the social hall of Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Diego is named, and described her husband as chairman of WAXIE Sanitary Supply.

Education

Wax told SDVoyager that he graduated from San Diego State University with an accounting degree at age 20. This matches what the old page said, and it is one of the few details that page got right. The old page also said he started his own business after school, which is wrong. He joined the company his father had founded.

Age, height and weight

His exact birth date is not published. He joined WAXIE full time in 1972, soon after finishing college at 20, so he was born around 1950. That makes the old page's age of 53 impossible. The height and weight given there had no source and have been removed.

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Why no figure is given

Family-owned distributors like WAXIE do not publish accounts, and ownership is often spread across several generations and trusts. No outlet has estimated the company's value or Wax's share of it, so any personal net worth figure would be invented. What the record does show is more than 50 years building a regional supply business into one of the largest family-owned companies in its trade.